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> Though for me, as long as Canonical doesn't screw it up in a major way, stock Ubuntu it is. It's not like they're not trying, with snaps and all... we shall see.
I guess what constitutes a "major screw up" can be debated. I don't have a problem with snaps.
I wish they had a laptop with a latest and top AMD, 14" 4K IPS matte panel, programmers friendly keyboard (pg up/down home end on dedicated keys at least), expandable RAM and nvme drive, silent fans and metal chassis and a Linux support. Less important physical camera and wi-fi cut off switch. If there was an ARM chip with comparable performance to M1 I would consider it too if it was running Linux. After watching th…
Everybody wants what they want and that's fine, but this comment shows why it's so hard for a small manufacturer to cater to developers.
I've recently switched from my usual MBP upgrade to System 76 (Oryx Pro). While yes, Apple's walled garden does feel like a Rolls Royce compared to anything, the price tag difference this time was just way too step for me to keep buying a new Mac: It was basically 2x or more for roughly similar hardware, if not slightly worse on the MBP side. Overall, using Pop_OS! with its specialized GNOME3 setup has been a bliss,…
iTerm2 is a beauty, is there a closest equivalent on Linux? There seem to be 25 popular choices especially now with the GPU-accelerated ones. Tried a few of the classics like Termite and they all seemed painfully outdated and crappy compared to iTerm.
This looks really great. Pop OS is the one Linux that is almost perfect out of the box for me. But I always install Plank for my dock. I also like the Super key launcher change, that is basically how I use it anyway. Good stuff.
The contrast is too low :( If they took a design cue from https://contrastrebellion.com/ it could be good.
I've recently switched from my usual MBP upgrade to System 76 (Oryx Pro). While yes, Apple's walled garden does feel like a Rolls Royce compared to anything, the price tag difference this time was just way too step for me to keep buying a new Mac: It was basically 2x or more for roughly similar hardware, if not slightly worse on the MBP side. Overall, using Pop_OS! with its specialized GNOME3 setup has been a bliss,…
iTerm2 is a beauty, is there a closest equivalent on Linux? There seem to be 25 popular choices especially now with the GPU-accelerated ones. Tried a few of the classics like Termite and they all seemed painfully outdated and crappy compared to iTerm.
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I mostly like Gnome. I have been using it for years. But the development team of Gnome is so closed minded that it makes my head hurt. I asked on the bug tracker if Evince could have a tabs feature, so I can have 10 pdfs open in one Evince window. They asked me to cite a usability study showing that it would objectively improve user experience.
It's clearly unreasonable for a developer to ask a bug reporter to cite a usability study out of the blue. However, I don't think it's unreasonable for a developer to do so if the person commenting explicitly claims that not having a feature hurts usability : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/issues/182#note_3837...
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Why do we call it an entry level processor? Is it marketing words?
Because so far Apple has only released entry level products with the M1. It’s pretty obvious that they will release higher end chips for higher end products later this year.
The day it hits an over the counter SoC that can be used with open source software, i'll start to get excited...
Until then, i'll just use AMD Ryzen and Intel or straight up open source capable arm SoC
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What do you mean?
Bulky, low res screen, design suggests that it relies heavily on active cooling, looks cheap and plasticy even in the marketing photos. I wouldn't buy this if it was 10x faster than a Macbook Air.
> Bulky
Often a sign of user-replaceable RAM and SSD, which is good. I don't mind if it adds a few millimeters to the thickness.
> low res screen
1920x1080 is enough resolution for a 13" laptop.
> design suggests that it relies heavily on active cooling
I don't want passively cooled computers, I want fast ones. All else being equal, compute performance is proportional to electricity consumption, and heat generated.