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2021 is going to be the year of desktop Linux... for sure this time! /s j/k Chromebooks have been desktop Linux for years and they work great
But I'm grateful every day to have a machine that I have some semblance of control over. I use a rolling release distro. I'm running a recent kernel and haven't done a major re-install in 5 years. During that entire time my computing experience has been incredibly stable. No huge UI changes. No forced system updates. Just a reliable tool I can use to get stuff done.
What I'm trying to communicate is, Linux desktop is usable, and it's worth pushing over the hump.
2021 is going to be the year of desktop Linux... for sure this time! /s j/k Chromebooks have been desktop Linux for years and they work great
It's more than being about what kernel our devices run. Android devices are Linux too, but we don't go around saying it's an era of the Linux Handheld. It is, sort of, but the "Linux Desktop" implies a wider free & open source stack of interlinked technologies, multiple disjointed entities working in different places but building towards some kind of intertwingularity. You can not get that endless-frontier expanding-…
Or, you just can say that by "Linux" we actually mean GNU/Linux.
The trackpad is still a dealbreaker for me. Nothing I have tried so far comes close to the trackpad on a macbook with the sensitivity turned up to max.
https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/Switching-Fn-and-lef...
Aside from operating system, the actual PC laptop hardware just isn't up to the standards.
2021 is going to be the year of desktop Linux... for sure this time! /s j/k Chromebooks have been desktop Linux for years and they work great
It's more than being about what kernel our devices run. Android devices are Linux too, but we don't go around saying it's an era of the Linux Handheld. It is, sort of, but the "Linux Desktop" implies a wider free & open source stack of interlinked technologies, multiple disjointed entities working in different places but building towards some kind of intertwingularity. You can not get that endless-frontier expanding-…
I get that the author wound up with a lemon, but the idea that Apple is "downgrading its hardware" with more problems arising is ludicrous.
Especially now that Apple fixed the keyboards, its hardware is better than it's ever been.
You might not like Apple for plenty of other reasons, but the notion that its hardware is getting worse, or a worse value, is insane. The new M1 MBA is the highest-quality best deal of a laptop ever made.
2021 is going to be the year of desktop Linux... for sure this time! /s j/k Chromebooks have been desktop Linux for years and they work great
I've found that if ChromeOS would suit a user's needs, so would a polished distribution like Ubuntu with a browser like Firefox or Chrome.
If you want to get a Linux based laptop for casual users and dont want to maintain it, just get them a chromebook.
It is also a good everyday machine I can use to ssh into my desktop for real work.
I think this is going to be a tougher sell for laptops as the M1 chip seems to be a game changer for battery life and performance. Once the majority of software gets native ARM support, it will only get better, not to mention this is only the first iteration of a desktop class Apple Silicon. I do understand from a philosophical point of view why people may not want to use MacOS, particularly after last weeks code sig…
I think this is going to be a tougher sell for laptops as the M1 chip seems to be a game changer for battery life and performance. Once the majority of software gets native ARM support, it will only get better, not to mention this is only the first iteration of a desktop class Apple Silicon. I do understand from a philosophical point of view why people may not want to use MacOS, particularly after last weeks code sig…