Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
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Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
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Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#2Boring is good when it comes to tech because it means you're not spending time trying to make things work. Save the excitement for the stuff that pays your bills.
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#3Boring is good when it comes to tech because it means you're not spending time trying to make things work. Save the excitement for the stuff that pays your bills.
That is in fact exactly the point the article is making, in fact it’s the subtitle right on the page.
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#4Medium :-(
Does anyone have a link to the full text of this article?
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#5Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#6The laptop: "It’s an 11-year-old Thinkpad T420, a big ol’ thick brick of computation that I bought used a few years ago for $200."
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#7If you want fun, grab an exotic machine like a X1 Fold with a weird CPU (i5-L16G7 with 1 fast Sunny Cove core, 4 small Tremont cores) and start hacking: even on Windows, everything works more or less (https://csdvrx.github.io/) but the asymmetric CPU architecture gives me ideas about core pinning for some daemons.
On Linux, right now I'm looking at why the i915 style GPU (9840) gives me "Failed to get size of gamma for output default" in xrandr, which prevents redshift from working.
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#8Agreed. That's why I turn to r/unixporn to vicariously live through alternate setups.
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#9How’s the battery life though compared to MacBook Air ?
Re: Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
#10I installed PopOS (I know there’s some absurd punctuation involved in the name but I don’t remember what it is) on my 5 year old MacBook Pro and it feels like a brand new machine. The UX feels better to me than MacOS which is starting to feel more and more like Windows imo.