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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.

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

Any distro you are comfortable with.

Nibodhika,

Which is the correct answer to 99% of questions that start with “Which distro…”

Ibex0, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

Can’t wait to accidentally press it while gaming, just like the Windows key!

lal309, in Can't connect to some specific wifis

I also had weird problems connecting to wireless before, turns out the wireless on my machine could only connect to 2.4 ghz wireless but the routers I couldn’t connect to were 5 ghz. Just something else to check. Quite possibly due to the card being too old.

Secret300, in (Blog) Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Stable, some clarifications

I’ve been really interested in this project for a while now and even more excited when they announced 2.0. I can’t wait to try out the beta once it’s released

Pantherina, in New laptop

Gaming is not important if you do video editing. Hardware doesnt need to be very powerful if you dont do 4K or something, which tbh is not needed.

I would say look for a Clevo NV41 laptop as they are supported with Coreboot by 3mdeb, Novacustom, System76, Nitrokey etc. But flashing coreboot requires some knowledge and a hardware programmer.

I cant recommend other brands really. Thinkpads are just a name, good Linux support but their support is nonexistent if you dont pay, and the software updates are not long.

You may want AMD graphics, but I have had bad experience with amd mobile CPUs.

You will want to use

  • tlp
  • system76-scheduler (or this power management thing)
  • autocpufreq

Either one of these.

As a Distro I highly recommend ublue.it they are supporting many models with custom setups like Razer etc, but also main (intel, amd, no extras) or nvidia (proprietary drivers).

Especially if you go with an NVIDIA card, which has advantages, I recommend the system76 tool for switching between internal GPU and dedicated one. And I also recommend only ublue’s *-nvidia images, as you can rollback if an update with the drivers breaks something.

nyan, in Looking for a good tablet PC distro

Just a note: there are a few on-screen software keyboards for X out there that aren’t tied to a specific DE, like xvkbd and svkbd. They might be worth trying if you find some distro that works well except that the default on-screen keyboard sucks. (No idea if there’s any equivalent for Wayland.)

DetachablePianist,

Great idea; thanks!

Pantherina,

Note: X11 is nearly entirely dead.

unmagical, in Looking for a good tablet PC distro

I have a tablet running fedora with gnome. While it works for me I cannot recommend it at all for something I’d give to someone else.

On the surface gnome looks useable as a mobile DE, but the reality is that it requires several gnome extensions to get it in a useable state (I’m talking having a reliable way to copy and paste). Those extensions are not necessarily updated at the same cadence as gnome or fedora so my ability to consistently use the device in a predictable manner is gone if I install the latest updates when available (and after years of training users to install updates when available someone you give the tablet too will click the update pop-up).

Regarding drivers, the only thing that doesn’t work on mine is the camera. I’d recommend trying out a few choices on a live boot and seeing just how much effort you have to make it useable.

DetachablePianist,

Yeah, I’ll definitely burn a few ISOs to usb to live test. I’ll be sure to update my post with the chosen winner once I pick one.

TheGrandNagus, (edited ) in #129 Hello 2024 · This Week in GNOME

Gnome was already pretty great for accessibility (for a Linux DE anyway), and I’m glad to see that it’s getting continued work.

Usually (understandably) it’s overlooked

Also nice to hear them actually explaining why VRR hasn’t been enabled yet - there are still kinks to work out. Reddit/Lemmy told me it’s just because Gnome devs are evil pieces of shit who hate their users.

java, in New laptop

good battery life (I don’t want to worry about)

Define good battery life.

moitoi,
@moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m fine with several hours of use. 6 hours would be great. The second point is to no worry about having no battery when I take out of my backpack. The second point is also depending on the OS. With all I read and people, I would look for 94Wh at least.

woelkchen, in Looking for a good tablet PC distro
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

BlissOS blissos.org

DetachablePianist,

Looks interesting, I’ll check it out!

drwankingstein,

While I agree that it is the best tablet experience, I think that’s strething the definition of a distro pretty hard lol

woelkchen,
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It’s literally a distribution of an operating system that uses the Linux kernel, therefore a Linux distribution.

It’s, for example, not a Berkeley Software Distribution, BSD.

drwankingstein,

you will likely find that most people will disagree with that, the general consensus of a “Linux distro” is that gnu/linux stuff. Personally I would consider it distros in which the apps would mostly use the general linux runtime stacks since musl based distros I would still consider a general linux distro. Android uses it’s own distinct runtime, for the vast majority of usage, and although using things like termux we can get close, how android is setup it lacks a good chunk of things that can only be resolved with a chroot/proot

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t need to find people in agreement, just as I don’t need to find out whether people agree with the Earth being round or flat. Sometimes a fact is just a fact.

If you want to argue whether something like Alpine Linux that builds upon musl instead of GNU’s libc is a Linux distribution or not, please take that discussion there. I merely wanted to give OP a suggestion what should work best with his laptops.

drwankingstein,

I think it’s worth keeping in mind since when people ask for something, they generally want something specific. in this case they asked for a distro, so there is a non insiginificant chance they wanted a “generally agreed upon distro”

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Quote: “I’d still like them to behave somewhat similar to Android tablets for less techie users.”

Also OP gave a positive reply.

Can you leave me alone now with your wrong notions of “there is no Linux if it’s not GNU/Linux”? I’m not interested in discussing that.

Pantherina, (edited )

Afaik they use a pretty outdated version of Android (11?). They are the same Devs as Waydroid btw.

So it may be comfortable and made for tablets, but very old, only really essential security updates etc.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Visit the website and you no longer have to guess.

drwankingstein, in Looking for a good tablet PC distro

each one of them has issues, I cant in good conscious recommend any atm

DetachablePianist,

That’s a shame. I have a few promising leads to look into; I’ll update this post with my findings and chosen winner once I pick one

risencode, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

That’s funny, because getting an ad for Copilot inside my startmenu was actually what made me go back to Linux after 10 years.

This tracks.

Lettuceeatlettuce, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Time to buy some more of those little Tux keyboard superkey stickers :)

kristina, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

how could it possibly be that urgent that it needs a key dedicated to it

JuryNullification,

It’s probably like the Bixby button on my Samsung phone: all it does is complain I haven’t set it up yet when I accidentally push it while changing the volume.

CodingCarpenter,

You don’t just remap it to screen on and off?

JuryNullification,

It’s a work phone and I don’t really care about it, but thanks for letting me know that’s possible.

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