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Except wine can now run more windows program then any version bof windows. Wine better at windows than windows itself.
Can WINE run on Windows eg via WSL?
Wine can probably run on Windows natively.
$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
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#232> inexpensive ARM processors rather than more powerful and pricier Intel ones
I want more powerful ARM ones… RK3399 is a great step in the right direction, but I'd love to see a chromebook with, say, the new Kirin
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#233Are they really? Recently I had to choose between a chromebook and a cheap lenovo laptop and I went with the lenovo.32GB just isn’t enough space.
Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#234Any Chromebook more than $400 right now is just there to absorb even more disposable income from the market, because they ship with nicer finishes and faster processors, but they are anemic on memory and storage, making them subpar for intense multitasking, or getting certain types of work done. The situations in which they excel can be reliably hit by Chromebooks around a $400 price point, and even cheaper Chromeboo…
I'm interested in Chromebooks for a different reason, the same reason that brings me to Pixel phones. I hate software that tracks me, but if I wipe out Android and I install a self compiled AOSP, it's a superb user experience for me. Will these more upmarket Chromebooks (which have x86 CPUs and acceptable RAM & storage) be OK to run any regular Linux distro? Right now, Xiaomi laptops are excellent cheap machines to r…
So I bought a cheap chromebook with an intel chip to run linux on and use as a dev machine.
The spacebar screen is a constant source of anxiety but it's even worse than that. The reason I am on chromeOS with sideloaded linux (crouton) is because when you flash custom bios (seabios) you need to authorize it, if your computer runs completely out of battery (like it did for me on a flight to Iran), then that authorization is revoked and you need to boot into chromeOS to fix it (something I couldn't do since I didn't have chromeOS) so the only thing you can do is press spacebar and wipe everything.
I think I'll never buy a chromebook again, I'll just get something from puri.sm or slimbook.es.
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Air 12 inch, Intel HD Graphics: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/xiaomi-air-12-review...
Good bang for the buck but I want at least 8 GB DDR4 in a new laptop (bought in 2018), and preferably also TB3 and an AMD GPU. Regardless of the other unnecessary or lacking features Macbook laptops have (butterfly keyboard, touchbar, magsafe, USB-A ports come to mind) if you want a decent amount of RAM and an AMD GPU you pay the jackpot price on MBPs.
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> I suspect one reason for $600 devices, other than Google itself trying to reposition Chromebooks as more upmarket, is because $600 Windows laptops are still are a mess of preloaded bullshit put there by the vendor. Microsoft has tried various ways to fix this but it only tends to protect high-end models. In the current version of Windows 10 there's a feature called "fresh start" that makes it trivial to reset to a…
Unfortunately, this "vendor crap" is now part of the OS.
True,
I was using my brothers machine, which is win10 - and I havent used windows in years - and I was disgusted by the crappy UI/UX I was given - with its inbuilt notifications which even pop-up to tell you that you went into full screen mode and told it not to pop-up....
Also, the start menu looks like a freaking spyware minefield they way it takes up 60% of the screen when it is activated.
Windows is absolutely a mess these days.
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Which Xiaomi laptop is good with Linux Mint? Are they better than Lenovo?
The Xiaomi Air 12 is really good quality for ~$550 if you go for the m3 CPU. It's fanless (but only 4 GB of RAM), which is something I love. It's a different price point than Lenovo. Much cheaper. They are good ultrabooks. Regardless of the CPU you choose (e.g. i5 has 8 GB, but it's not fanless), all 12 inch models have Intel components only, including the wireless card. It's one of the few laptops that truly runs we…
Thanks. I find $550 a bit expensive. Linux Mint runs flawlessly on a Lenovo S120 (11.6"/4GB RAM/32GB SSD) but I can't upgrade the SSD and that's a bummer. Can't complain, though, it was $170 new from Amazon...
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Xiaomi laptops are excellent machines to run Linux on (thanks to having just Intel components) Which ones exactly? Do you have resources? The ones I've seen sport Nvidia GPUs [1] [2]. Which means no Wayland, and only proprietary drivers. Not "excellent" or "just Intel components" in my book. [1] https://www.banggood.com/XiaoMi-Gaming-Laptop-Intel-Core-I7-... [2] https://www.banggood.com/Xiaomi-Pro-Notebook-15_6-Inc…
Any practical benefit right now to switching to wayland?
It depends. For me this is about being future proof.
Its more secure than X, but you can compartmentalise as well via VMs (Qubes does this) or Docker (Jessie Frazelle runs everything in Docker).
Enlightenment [1] supports Wayland since E20.
If you use i3 right now, you can use Sway [2] as drop-in replacement. That's my plan (since I use i3) if I might some time.
SailfishOS [3] also already uses Wayland. Tizen apparently does as well. SailfishOS doesn't use profiling or ads, and has an Android compatibility layer.
KDE and Gnome might as well (according to [4] they do); I don't use those.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_(software)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_display_servers#Waylan...
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Xiaomi laptops are excellent machines to run Linux on (thanks to having just Intel components) Which ones exactly? Do you have resources? The ones I've seen sport Nvidia GPUs [1] [2]. Which means no Wayland, and only proprietary drivers. Not "excellent" or "just Intel components" in my book. [1] https://www.banggood.com/XiaoMi-Gaming-Laptop-Intel-Core-I7-... [2] https://www.banggood.com/Xiaomi-Pro-Notebook-15_6-Inc…
Any practical benefit right now to switching to wayland?
Nope!
Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#240Dependence on Windows is the most dangerous development for Microsoft. An 8GB RAM Windows Surface Go is less performant than an iPad with 2GB of RAM for consumers. For the server, I recently had to write a process that takes messages from a queue in AWS and store it to a database. It ran well as a .Net Core based lambda running on a 256MB RAM Linux VM. I did the same with a .Net Framesork app that inherited and the s…
My surface go has been treating me pretty well despite it’s pretty paltry cpu. My iPad Pro has its place and I don’t really see the surface go as being a tablet replacement more of a supplemental computer for when you don’t want to carry a bigger laptop. Or in my case something to test Windows apps and websites on.
If one day your Surface Go decides to die, you can download Windows VMs[1] from Microsoft and run those on whatever device you use to develop websites and apps.
[1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...