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Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US

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Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US

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Post by MrMorden »

OrangeMango wrote: post #92
bananaeater wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a link to the Dell webpage? Can't find it myself; all the ones I come across are for Windows systems.

Just do a websearch for "Dell Workstation". Look at the Precision 3630. Some say "Precision 3630 Tower Workstation" and some say "Precision 3630 Tower". Scroll down and you'll see that where it lists the operating system, the systems that say "Workstation" all have a "show all options" listing. Customize the one that is currently listed at $579. It has an i3-9100 processor and switching from Windows 10 Pro to Ubuntu…

The last thing I need is another landfill keyboard, and I've got dozens of spare power cables. Totally sign me up for unbundling those.

Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US

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Post by gonzo41 »

gonzo41 wrote: post #5

This is great but I'd still just format the drives and load from an image I put onto a thumb drive. Who knows what new glassfish-esq malware they have integrated into the factory OS.

Oh not glassfish, sorry I did some migration work on that a while back. I meant superfish. :D

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

ohazi wrote: post #106
the8472 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get most of that through thunderbolt hubs these days, there's little need for proprietary docking station connectors.

PSA to everyone using a recent ThinkPad: Update your thunderbolt firmware. Boot into Windows if you have to... This one is a might-break-your-hardware class bug. https://github.com/fwupd/missing-firmware-lenovo-thinkpad/is...

Damn. Thanks for the heads up. I erased windows without ever booting it, but hopefully this can be done without it.

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Post by gfiorav »

0xffff2 wrote: post #51
gfiorav wrote: post #49

I'm not really proud of this, but I never really found a Linux OS (or BSD) that "just worked". Maybe I'm too picky, but just being able to resize windows dynamically should be out-of-the-box. Ever since Windows steered away from Balmer and WSL and other things happened... I'm really comfortable in Windows. It's polished and offers all the Linux I need.

I agree with Linux, but I'm surprised to see anyone call modern Windows "polished". Late editions of Windows XP were polished. Windows 10 is a pile of untested junk. Things break all the time. Things rely on an internet connection for no good reason all the time. Baked in, impossible to disable telemetry. I put up with it, but only because none of my corporate software works on Linux.

I don’t really have that experience. I do leave everything on defaults and use all terminal tools to program (editing too) so I guess I’m not really asking much of it

Re: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US

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Post by gfiorav »

Insanity wrote: post #52
gfiorav wrote: post #49

I'm not really proud of this, but I never really found a Linux OS (or BSD) that "just worked". Maybe I'm too picky, but just being able to resize windows dynamically should be out-of-the-box. Ever since Windows steered away from Balmer and WSL and other things happened... I'm really comfortable in Windows. It's polished and offers all the Linux I need.

What do you mean with resizing windows dynamically? Ever since windows 10 I found the default behaviour annoying on windows. Window management seems so much better to me on Linux than Windows, but indeed not out-of-the-box.

It’s just comical to me how difficult it is to click on the corner of a window in most of not all desktop environments... the only diestro that has it right is Ubuntu

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Post by gfiorav »

beart wrote: post #56
gfiorav wrote: post #49

I'm not really proud of this, but I never really found a Linux OS (or BSD) that "just worked". Maybe I'm too picky, but just being able to resize windows dynamically should be out-of-the-box. Ever since Windows steered away from Balmer and WSL and other things happened... I'm really comfortable in Windows. It's polished and offers all the Linux I need.

I'm back on Linux again after years on Windows 10. It is far far better than in the past but still full of small annoyances. For example, there are two settings for mouse sensitivity (acceleration speed and acceleration delay) but neither of these will actually disable acceleration completely and I see no good way to adjust the sensitivity itself without searching for some unknowable settings in some unknowable dot f…

Exactly! What districts do you think is best? I’m becoming a default-person and Ubuntu default is usually the best for me. My current setup is windows and Debian WSL, although I do use in-terminal editors so I don’t really suffer any of the Linux-windows integration woes

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Post by grappler »

originalbryan2 wrote: post #117

Is it the year of the Linux desktop?!?!

I know you're at least half joking, but for me it actually is the year of linux on the desktop.

As a developer who does server-side stuff, a mac was an obvious easy choice for a long time -- a tradition that has been widespread going at least as far back as dhh's intro to rails development using textmate [1].

What does that open source crowd want now? They want to build OCI/docker containers and deploy them to kubernetes clusters. You can do that on mac, but these containers need to run on a linux kernel, so the setup winds up as containers on a VM on the host OS.

If your dev machine is linux, you can remove the VM layer in between and the setup is simpler and more efficient. I think that might push a lot of developers from mac to linux. I just got a new dev machine recently and it's a linux laptop.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY

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Post by modo_mario »

gfiorav wrote: post #125
0xffff2 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with Linux, but I'm surprised to see anyone call modern Windows "polished". Late editions of Windows XP were polished. Windows 10 is a pile of untested junk. Things break all the time. Things rely on an internet connection for no good reason all the time. Baked in, impossible to disable telemetry. I put up with it, but only because none of my corporate software works on Linux.

I don’t really have that experience. I do leave everything on defaults and use all terminal tools to program (editing too) so I guess I’m not really asking much of it

Try to do some system management and you'll often realize the steaming pile of shit under the fancy looking hood. Sudden changes to SMB configuration after updates bringing issues that differ not by version after the updates but by version of when they were first installed... and all of a sudden there's a bug with NTLMv2 and what have you, etc, etc
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