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Re: System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances

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Post by vagab0nd » Fri, May 03, 2019, 1:54 AM UTC

tonysickpony wrote: post #63

I love Pop!_OS. I have used Gentoo, Ubuntu and Arch in the past 10 years. I ended up with Antergos packaged version of Arch with a bunch of personal tweaks. I tried different distro every now and then but always ended disappointed. My only needs for distros are to install softwares I use and run them. It turns out to be significantly hard, none of the distros do that without glitches, screen tearing and inconsistency…

Personally I can say the same thing for Arch Linux. Since you've used both, could you elaborate what is better in Pop!_OS than Arch?

Re: System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances

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Post by pimeys » Fri, May 03, 2019, 4:28 AM UTC

NikolaNovak wrote: post #140

pimeys wrote: post #135

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They are thick and sturdy. That's what I like about them. Thick, but with a 35W CPU that can do miracles. Utilitarian piece of hardware so far away of thin modern laptops, I just like them a lot.

Thx! I agree with utility part,I just found t420s so much more usable than t420, while retaining modularity and maintainability. Feels easier to lug around than x220/230,if it's less heavy etc. Hmmm...!

I have the 9cell battery even with the X230 and always carrying it by grabbing from the battery.

I really feel it's much nicer to travel with this than my slimmer T25, but of course it's subjective.

Re: System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances

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Post by voltagex_ » Fri, May 03, 2019, 12:34 PM UTC

ac29 wrote: post #127

voltagex_ wrote: post #95

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Yep, replaced both the NVMe and the Broadcom wifi in my 9350. I'm not buying this year's model as the Killer wifi is soldered down. Killer indeed.

For what its worth, I've had zero issues with WiFi on my 9380. The "killer" wifi is just an ath10k: 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32) Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. Killer 1435 Wireless-AC Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci As far as I can tell, its no different from any other Qualcomm Atheros WiFi. I believe the "killer" differences are just in the Windo…

That's interesting - the only other issue is that I then can't upgrade to Wifi 6 or whatever, but that's probably not an issue until a few years down the track when all my other devices support the same standard.

Re: System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 03, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

pknopf wrote: post #132

deanclatworthy wrote: post #98

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Forgive me for asking, but what is different about this than Ubuntu 19.04? I looked through the POP!_OS (terrible name btw) promo page [1] and the majority of the things it's talking about are basic Gnome features shipped with Ubuntu? [1] https://system76.com/pop

It doesn't really add anything. It does however, break things. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/503481/why-does-apt... I would steer clear of it unless it actually provides anything other than a default nvidia setup.

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Re: System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances

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Post by akvadrako » Sat, May 04, 2019, 8:14 AM UTC

ohithereyou wrote: post #139

alexcabrera wrote: post #134

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> Did you know that neither mpv or mplayer bottles ship with libdvdread support? Maybe because Apple doesn't ship a computer with a DVD drive and hasn't for ~5 years?

Their formula does not disable libdvdread support, but their build from source process fails to detect it if it is otherwise installed. A build from the vanilla source tarball picks it up just fine. So this is not a "Homebrew decided to disable this option", it seems to be a "Homebrew's build process actively avoids searching for other installed software even when the authors of that underlying software enable suppor…

That's the way it should be, obviously.