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independantiste, in Help with laptop buying decision
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If you don’t want a clevo/tongfang laptop with a custom logo on the lid, look at Framework, Starlabs, Purism, Dell or Lenovo, though the last two don’t offer Linux on most models.

If you don’t really care about the OEM, but still want a “guaranteed” good Linux experience, then System76, Tuxedo or Slimbook should fit your needs. Just consider that Slimbook and Tuxedo are from Europe so you could get duties if you’re in the US

bobs_monkey,

Lenovo supports Linux directly. You can buy it with Ubuntu preloaded, and they also give instructions for you on their website.

TCB13, in Help with laptop buying decision
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Want things to work really well and last that way? Get an HP EliteBook (not the latest model) and enjoy.

twinnie, in I'm Done With Windows, Are you?

I like the idea of ditching Windows because of all the telemetry but I just need a machine that’s going to do what I need it to do without a fucking battle. Everything on Linux is just so difficult, it’s like every time I give it a go I wind up spending hours trying to figure out how to do something that would take ten seconds on Windows. I wanted to make a desktop shortcut that would run a script with root privileges. On Windows that’s right click, drag, and select the option to make a shortcut. Takes a few seconds. Took me ages to figure it out in Ubuntu, mostly because it wasn’t working as it should. Yesterday I did an apt upgrade on another machine and it wiped out the WiFi. I’m still working on fixing that and now I’m looking into compiling my own drivers.

Guenther_Amanita,

I felt the same when I started using Linux.
My whole computing experience was on Windows, and when I switched, I expected Linux to be working the same and being a 1:1 replacement.

Just don’t expect it to be the same.
Even if it sometimes looks like it (e.g. Mint oder KDE-based distros) it absolutely isn’t similar.

People don’t have the same expectations on MacOS, so why should we on Linux?

And if you really don’t like it at all, then stay on Windows. No shame at all. Use the right tool for the right task.

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

a fucking battle

Interesting, I feel like this describes what windows itself does to a pc

It’s definitely not normal to lose wifi working drivers with an update. I would say it’s very rare in fact. As far as what you’re saying takes ten seconds on windows, no it doesn’t. You would still need to run as administrator and (I think) type your password, which probably takes longer than opening a terminal and typing sudo

WeLoveCastingSpellz,

On linux you also have to just click drag and choose “make a link”.

TheGrandNagus,

Funny, for me it’s windows that I’m constantly battling.

Be it having to constantly restart and do updates that take forever.

Searching online and downloading then clicking through installers for software I want, rather than just going into an app store.

Having to manually remove ads from my start menu

Remove as much telemetry as I can (that of course accidentally gets reset by some updates)

I have dark mode set, yet so many programs (even first party MS stuff that’s part of the OS!) doesn’t respect it, so I get randomly blinded at night

Each individual app running their own updater services in the background

Having to remember to run disk cleanup every once in a while because temporary files and old update files hang around for ages, eventually slowing my system down and taking dozens of GB of space

There are some good things - Win11’s window tiling is genuinely excellent, for example. But man, overall, Windows is just difficult and tedious to use. The only reason people use it is because it’s the default. Not because it’s good or it’s easy.

Gutless2615, in How to secure (podman or docker) containers for public-facing hosting?

Easy solution: cloudflare tunnels

BiggestBulb, in Best distro for data science? [request]
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R-ch (pronounced Arch btw)

throwawayish, in How to make your own custom ublue image.

Thank you OP for that, but… why should we prefer this over uBlue’s work on streamlining this process?

atmur, in #129 Hello 2024 · This Week in GNOME

Dor Askayo is joining the team to continue their work on variable refresh rate (vrr) support in Mutter

Hell yeah, hopefully this makes it in time for Gnome 46.

Sentau, in #129 Hello 2024 · This Week in GNOME

Now that askayo is officially part of gnome, I hope that vrr is shipped with gnome 46 as an experimental feature at the very least

Guenther_Amanita, in How to make your own custom ublue image.

Wow! Is it really this easy? Awesome, I’ll look into it, thanks!

digdilem, in Best distro for data science? [request]

We use EL (Specifically Rocky, a rebuild of Redhat) for this, but I strongly suspect that any of the main distros will be absolutely fine provided they have modern enough versions of the software you need.

drwankingstein, (edited ) in What Is Linux Mobile - technical explanation of the ecosystem for Linux on smartphones previously (often previosuly android)

one of the issues I have with mobile linux is flutter has some really good apps, but when you try to use them on linux the performance plummets, this makes a whole slew of great touch primary applications unusable.

this article was pretty hard to read, but I greatly disagree with android having bad UX, maybe for some users but to me android’s UX is pretty great

TootSweet, in Looking for a voice command/macro program

Rhasspy might be a part of the solution you’re looking for, at least.

qjkxbmwvz, in Best distro for data science? [request]

Debian got me through grad school.

Not the latest and greatest (if you run stable), but if you need the latest e.g. Julia, it’s not too bad to compile it.

SmoochyPit, in Best distro for data science? [request]

I recently installed R on my Arch desktop to play with. Any Linux distro could work well if you install the right things, the distro mostly influences how they get installed afaik.

Bottles and docker could be helpful depending on software supports and your needs.

filister, in Best distro for data science? [request]

I would say Nix but I presume you are a beginner so perhaps stick with Pop OS, Mint or Ubuntu.

atzanteol,

I’ve been running Linux since the 90s and use popos. Nothing “beginner” about it.

filister,

It is beginner friendly, that was my point. At the end of the day it is Linux and you can do everything you can do on a normal Linux too.

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