I see a lot of Framework recommendations, and I had the 12th gen Framework for around a year running Fedora. I faced a bunch of excessive power use issues, and had to add some kernel flags just to get maybe 4 hours of battery life. The device is notoriously repairable, but the one thing that conked out on me was actually the mainboard, which was like the price of a new device. Support spent two weeks trying to find out if it was anything else before sending me a replacement mainboard.
My friend recently got a Zenbook 14 OLED with the same processor. The entire device was $200 cheaper lightly used than the Frameworks mainboard alone, and the only issue is the speakers donāt work. That being said, he gets almost double my battery life, and a 90hz OLED screen on top of it all. Plus more ports; even with Frameworkās modular add-in cards I donāt feel it is as flexible a system as having >4 useful ports.
My time with the Framework was great, but I wouldnāt recommend it. Getting something secondhand is an environmentally conscious option, and you can get great stuff secondhand.
Yeah, enjoy thatā¦ Iāve tried it enough times to find the process cumbersome and full of troubleshooting. In the right state of mind I enjoy that, but I could never straight up ditch windows as someone who games often. Sometimes you just want to download a new game and play it.
Linux will get there, if things keep going that direction. Itās not there yet, though.
Iāve played games on my Linux desktop without so much as even needing to care itās running on Linux via Steam and Proton for years now, and itās only getting better. Basically the only games Iāve seen not work are the ones with kernel level rootkit anti cheat really.
Which version? 2007 runs just fine. 2010 requres some custom libs, but there are tutorials (there is also a patch that makes it an endless free trial). 2013 is not a finished product IMO, so I havenāt used it all or tried in Wine. 2016ā¦ yeah, thatās a PITA to get working. One thing I can suggest is go with the MSVC++ installer from this link and go from there. You might also need x64dbg, but I seriously doubt it.
MS Word past 2007 is not MS Word anymore. Microsoft fucked up the menu and the toolbar intentionally, to lock new users into their new fancy user interface with menus-as-buttons. LibreOffice is more MS Word from the usability standpoint than the MS Word 2016. Like, you can select Format - Paragraph and edit your paragraph formatting, all in one dialog, and not search for the right icon out of a hundred pictograms spread evenly over ten dynamic toolbars.
I completely agree, I like LibreOffice way more than MS Office. Itās basically got the pre 2007 look and feel, and that is what I like and what Iām used to.
I just happen to work on getting MS Office working on Wine for a small local company and know a thing or two about getting it working in Wine.
MS took over that market in the 90ās when shit was settlig down after the UNIX wars and people didnāt actually have an alternative. MS came in and swooped the market.
It is hard to switch when āthe defaults"are in place.
Whatās ācustom layout tablesā? Anyway, I now only play typst.app card, because I donāt use LO Writer anymore, only LO Calc for some stuff. Typst has a ton of scripting capability and granular customization, so it will probably beat your ācustom layout tablesā by a mile kilometer!
Typst is the future for document creation. Mark my words.
Matrix room? Where? There is no official Matrix space.
I agree, I hate discord, but thatās where everybody is messaging, including authors. BTW, we had a ācommunity callā a few days ago in the discord. Itās a monthly thing.
Yeah, you can run them with some heavy modding. Iāve done it with Photoshop 2021 and Premiere 2021. Takes a lot of work and debugging, but itās doable.
Probably an idea as old as time but wouldnāt it work to stream adobe products from a terminal server?
Let me elaborate: two major fronts Iāve seen are āI type data and write emailsā types that can easily work on the terminal and āI make heave graphics and video editing and cant work without 4090 gpuā which we usually just leave to it.
Obviously there are more nuances but most should be doable in terminal unless no internet or very bad internet. Iām somewhat hopeful this would work. Everyone has a very efficient linux pc/laptop and the heavy lifting is done by windows vms with adobe suite running on shared A100s. And while they are not used they could be rented out for extra cost efficiency.
I use substance painter and I need it to work. I donāt want to spend hours messing around trying to make it work and jumping through hoops.
Wine for DCC is great if you enjoy tinkering with pipelines rather than using them, but impractical for people who are trying to reliably get work done.
I bet AutoCAD will collapse either way if Microsoft decided to purge legacy components from the OS. Feel like the codebase hasnāt changed since the early days and it probably depends on some APIs that have been there since Windows ME.
I bet AutoCAD will collapse either way if Microsoft decided to purge legacy components from the OS.
Iāve been saying this for years. Their code base is ancient, itās just makeup on a granma.
The trouble is, I think MS saw through this. Why do you think backwards compatibility suddenly got so good with Win8/8.1/10, while it really sucked with 7 (blue screens all over, especially with drivers from XP). Hell, Iāve installed XP graphics drivers on Win10 x86 LTSC 2019 and everything was hunky dory. Sure, no Nvidia control panel (it just errors out when you try to rum it), but hey, at least they work. Same with software, CorelDRAW 12 was a PITA to get working properly on Win7. On 10, it works out of the box.
I think they were aware that their mobile OS escapades might flop, so they focused on getting better backwards compatibility. If this thing fires back (which it did), stick to your guns, you still are no.1 in the CAD software market.
While Iām not exactly an expert user of AutoCAD (my background is architecture, industrial design and full stack development), I know enough about the software where I can tell itās based on a lot of legacy spaghetti code.
Itās the same for Solidworks, which I know through and through, including the shitty VBA scripting environment. My CAD teachers always used to say the software is built like a wooden playhouse, which has been extended over the years to include a second story, a slide, a swingset and a roof extension. But underneath it all, it is still the same ādonāt fix it if it aint brokeā codebase that Dassault has taken their chances on since the '90s.
The second someone invests any kind of money into an open source alternative, the way Blender has done for the mesh modeling industries, both Autodesk and Dassault systemes stand to lose their respective monopolies on 2D and 3D CAD.
But the trend is not limited to CAD software only, it is also highly prevalent in software providers for governmental tasks. Most of which sell the same products for years without iteration on their codebase. The result is that government organisations have to deal with shitty software that requires their individual users to connect to the database (yes, you heard that right, every user has to manually input database credentials that include all grants on all of the relevant datasets). Most of these cronies are reselling badly thought out software, where theyāve outsourced the development to third-world shitholes. Is is a goddamn miracle that there arenāt more major incidents with government organisations.
The only solution for this kind of bullshit is open standards that encourage an open source approach to these kinds of critical applications. Where more parties are actually encouraged to build their own software and where the businessmodel is built around being a service provider and not a magical black box salesman.
If youāre able to stop worrying about generating revenue based on your intellectual property and focus on generating revenue from the service you provide, surrounding your productā¦ youāll automatically build a better product.
I completely agree, but there is a problem with that approach. It means you have to work hardā¦ which is not what most of these software companies are ready to do.
I hate comments that are like āoh if only Linux could run Whateverā etc. You can have more than one computer (or partition), and you can have more than one OS. Windows isnāt going to divorce you if you spend time with Linux.
It works great too. Day to day Iāll be building Linux code, running IntelliJ under X, installing docker containers and doing other stuff all from a Windows desktop.
No, but it sure is annoying having to switch in the middle of doing something especially when youāre working. (Also, thereās that pesky thing that happened to me as well where windows doesnāt play nice with the Linux boot partition and fucks it up) So thereās always going to be a main os. If youāre fortunate enough you can use an old laptop for windows. Or, if your computer is powerful enough run an windows VM. For me, Gnome Boxes offered a really easy to use experience of running windows. It worked out of the box, no special tweaks.
I installed Garuda on my wifeās gaming machine last autumn, dual boot with Windows. I havenāt seen her using Windows since then, and she said she hasnāt. She loves it btw, says, even better graphics in some games. And KDE is an eye candy anyways.
I have a framework. The smaller one. I think they have two now. One of the older CPUs. Got it now than a year ago and itās been solid. Disclaimer: I donāt run Linux on it, so IDK what thatās like at the moment.
Iāve used most makes and models of laptops and desktops at some point for some durationā¦ The hazards of being in ITā¦ I canāt recommend anything from Microsoft. Simply too hard to do anything with when anything goes wrong and youāre entirely at the mercy of MS for everything. I personally donāt like Lenovo, Iāve had a few Lenovoās that have their PCIe slots locked to only accept specific device I.D.s in the firmware. I had to flash a hacked firmware to upgrade the wifi in one. It was an unpleasant experience. It did eventually work, but it was not fun. I also donāt care for their keyboard layouts. Thatās been improved recently from what Iāve heard, Iām still equally not a fan of their systems.
Iāve had the most experience with HP and Dell, and for the most part theyāre very similar. Anything from their business lines will perform quite well though graphics may only be whatever comes integrated with the CPU.
I always push towards business systems because from what Iāve seen, theyāre more robust and usually donāt break nearly as fast.
Iād think about getting an eGPU for gaming since no matter how powerful the system or itās GPU is, it will be massively outdated long before the system fails or becomes inoperable from age. With an eGPU external enclosure, you can upgrade any time you like to a desktop card for much cheaper than replacing the system. Most eGPU enclosures can also act as docking stations, providing power and even network and other things along with the graphics connection.
Thatās a lot of hardware talk though. Iām not going to tell you what to pick, Iām just making the best recommendations I can given the information available to me.
Lmaoā¦ it hurts because itās true!! Debug these windows stack traces in Linux, here you go!! Exception happened at 0xEBFCEBFCBEBXBDBBWBXBENEKWWLLWLFFMLW
My first Linux install, I downloaded some tutorial from somewhere, canāt remember where (maybe someone on IRC shared it š¤ā¦ IDK, I canāt remember), and this is litelarly what it said š.
You have to be prepared when installing Linux. Take a week or two off work or school and make sure you have the following things at your disposal.
Find as many bootable floppyās and as many different dostro CDs as possible. Why? The boot floppy from Debian might work with Suse, but not the Debian CD.
Make sure you have at least two CD drives and floppy drives at your disposal. The more, the better. Why? Youāll probably burn out the first ones while trying to figure out which boot floppy goes with which distro.
Have coffee at your disposal all the time. Youāre at the bottom of the pot? Pour that in your mug and put a new one on the kettle.
Stock up on as many different kinds of alcohol you can find, preferably strong stuff. Trust me, youāll need it.
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