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onlinepersona,

Whatever suits your fancy.

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onlinepersona,

It would be great if piracy instances were hosted on I2P and TOR. Then these chucklefucks would have nothing.

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onlinepersona,

People complaining about something opensource not doing what they want it to do: dudes/dudettes, if you want to maintain X11, go right ahead. Or if you want it maintained, pay somebody to do it. But stop this incessant whining about opensource devs choosing a direction you don’t like and pretending it’s the end of the world. This isn’t some faceless, megacorp with closed-source shit you have no control over.

If all the people complaining about wayland either put their energy to positive stuff like making wayland better or making X11 better, this wouldn’t be a problem.

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onlinepersona,

linuxpreloaded.com for a longer list

These are my favorites (EU based)

  1. TuxedoComputers
  2. SlimBook
  3. Star Labs Systems

Tuxedo Computers can get you a very good dev laptop for ~1500€ (64GB RAM, AMD/Intel CPU, NVIDIA/AMD graphics card). If you will be working in AI, I imagine you’ll need CUDA (?) aka NVIDIA.
If you don’t go for anything on linuxpreloaded (which I wouldn’t recommend), it’s good to check whether what you’re buying has linux hardware support by checking the Linux Hardware DB. Even if you don’t look, it’ll probably work, but better safe than sorry if you’re going to dump 1/3 or 1/2 of your months salary into something (depending on where you are).

For a distro, I dunno what level you are, but Distro Chooser can help you out with making a choice. My recommendations:

linux beginner

Linux mint. nice desktop environment, looks like a mashup between windows and mac, still missing advanced options, but quite customisable. comes with suitable standard software and cloud integrations (you can connect to a bunch of clouds), relatively up to date

Ubuntu is well-known, some proprietary companies even consider it “the linux” and only make linux versions for it. It’s quite stable. However, it isn’t my first recommendation anymore as they are going down a proprietary route. I’m not sure if they have ads yet, but wouldn’t surprise me if they started.

desktop environment

This is the desktop suite, a bundle of packages that work well together on any distro, with its own look and feel. There are basically 3 camps:

  • windows look n feel
    • KDE: is the most known, is very customisable, has an abundant amount of themes, icon sets, login screens, fonts, and a well-sized userbase. They prefix many app names with “K”. Ubuntu even has a distro version called “Kubuntu” with KDE on it
    • Cinnamon: main user is Linux Mint
    • LXDE and XFCE: look closer to windows 95 and windows XP, consume minimal resources. configuration is through the interface, advanced configuration through files
  • mac look n feel
    • Gnome: they are well known and source of flame wars (gnome vs KDE). windows don’t have title bars, things are very rounded, not very configurable, heavily mac inspired
  • tiling window managers
    • these aren’t desktop environments, but sit more in the middle, they manage windows. best to watch a video about tiling window managers. they are very geeky and perfect if you love using nothing but your keyboard

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onlinepersona,

Because they you can ignore takedown requests and just focus on working on the project, not fearing lawsuits.

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onlinepersona,

Donations don’t exist.

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onlinepersona,

We really need federated source forges on anonymous networks like I2P.

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onlinepersona,

Year of the linux handheld then?

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onlinepersona,

Here’s to another year of the Linux Desktop! (been ~15 years for me) 🎉

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onlinepersona,

If that’s for FF, what about chromium?

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onlinepersona,

Evolutions are copyrighted? Wat? So if they give Mickey a red nose, that’s copyrighted just because they changed the color? That makes no sense at all.

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onlinepersona,

I’m actually curious what BSD provides in comparison to Linux. What does it add, do better, or worse?

The only thing I know is that they introduced some stuff way before linux did, but that’s simply due to the age. BSD jails for example have been around for a long time. Buy beyond that, it was never apparent to me why linux took off and BSD didn’t.

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onlinepersona,

I was getting emails about pull requests and issues all night. It’s like some people just took advantage of everybody being outside of the house to code 😅

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onlinepersona,

I use pigeons and let the wind tell me where to send them.

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onlinepersona,

I honestly thought this was going to be about AI 😅

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onlinepersona,

Because GUIs on linux don’t do everything that the CLI can. I use my computer for more than just browsing and editing documents, so the GUIs that do just that, don’t cut it.

Also, I’m on NixOS. There’s simply no way around the terminal - sadly.

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onlinepersona,

In the end, I don’t think it matters. People care about accessing what’s used most and if they have to watch ads to do so, they will. If “no ads” starts to have a competitive advantage because people are sick and tired of them, then maybe ads will start to die. We’re a long way from that though.

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onlinepersona,

My experience with the linux boot has never been flicker-free. It’s bugged me for years, but I don’t have the technical knowledge to fix it. There’s a black screen between BIOS and plymouth, then a black screen between plymouth and the login screen, then another black screen between the login screen and the splash screen, and finally a black screen between the splash screen and when the desktop shows up.

Mac and windows do a much better job at having a seamless experience from boot to desktop.

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onlinepersona,

Do they have a new season of this show now?

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onlinepersona, (edited )

Lol 0.06% usage in November 2023

https://i.imgur.com/HgRPw7P.png

store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

There are more linux users than windows7 users.

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onlinepersona,

It’s a little puzzling to me that Linux isn’t popular in low-income countries. Why wouldn’t it be the OS of choice there? Do we need to become linux missionaries? I imagine it would be easier to convince people who can’t buy an iPhone to use FLOSS than those who can drive to an Apple Store and waddle over to get yet another one.

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