Notice that fedora can't run playwright right now.
Lucky we are on linux, so i was able to put it in docker and render the window back to the host (amazing!)
There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
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Re: There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
#82Right now Linux on Desktop offers: - The best developer experience with the most hackable toolkit - A great gaming experience that plays the vast majority of titles on Steam - A "dumb by default" non-cloud enabled workstation - IMHO the most well-design, does most things "vanilla" desktop environment with GNOME. The tradeoff is - You will need to learn to update your system and learn some new things. Things will seem…
I observed some normal users and they are clueless when it comes to computers. If there is a problem, they ask it to be serviced or buy a new pc.
Even things like logging into google with an already logged in account (click on your face) is not intuitive they press instead the "log in with account" button and retype the credentials.
All of this to say, there might be challenges with Linux. But then the opposite it's also true, windows restarts the computer in your face without caring
Re: There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
#83I was forced to switch this last year. I decided to upgrade my 10 year old motherboard, and Windows refused to boot with the new one despite nothing else changing. I absolutely refuse to pay good money to "upgrade" to a worse version of Windows, so Linux it is. Mostly it's been a good experience. I can still open all my old documents, and you can't even tell the difference when browsing. There are some Windows only a…
have you tried wine?
Yes, I tried Wine. Dismal failure right off the bat.
Re: There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
#84Right now Linux on Desktop offers: - The best developer experience with the most hackable toolkit - A great gaming experience that plays the vast majority of titles on Steam - A "dumb by default" non-cloud enabled workstation - IMHO the most well-design, does most things "vanilla" desktop environment with GNOME. The tradeoff is - You will need to learn to update your system and learn some new things. Things will seem…
does HDR work?
Re: There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Terrible reasoning. I have more faith in Microsoft to stop breaking Windows than on the Linux community to fix any of their desktop distros and environments.
Microsoft won't fix intended, by design, behaviour, it is not broken from their point of view. And even if you disable Recall by whatever name they put to hide it, it could be silently reenabled by "security" updates. At least if some Linux distro includes something that users consider bad for their privacy, you can choose among several alternatives, including direct forks. That is an actual strength of that approach…
It took 10 years[1] for GTK to add the ability to rename files and folders to its file picker.
I think Microsoft will change their minds faster than Linux will fix its other problems.
Re: There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
#86My problem is just that I've been spoiled by the MacBook air. All of the power I need, fanless, insane battery life, unix shell. I know I can put Asahi on it, but I also know there are still issues around webcam/graphics drivers (I spend a lot of time on video calls) If there was something with the form factor of a MacBook Air I could put Linux on, and it would run as well, I wouldn't look back. The closest is the Fr…
A laptop that's fanless? Is that real? Or do they call it fanless because it's very quiet? The wikipedia article for fanless design redirects to quiet which to me suggests some people use the term in this way.
I don’t think my Lenovo X13s has a fan. I’ve never heard it.
Re: There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
#87Re: There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on the comments, I guess I should clarify. Yes, I can plug my monitors in and log into my system. However, it is a crap shoot that an application will 1. choose the correct monitor / remember the chosen monitor after reboot 2. render text in the correct resolution for the monitor 3. correctly render in the new resolution when dragged across monitors 4. correctly respect the "primary" monitor setting instead of…
I actually have some of these problems with Win 11
With Windows very often using Microsoft Standard Display driver on lots of hardware it won't even recognize a second monitor.
The same hardware on Linux works most of the time right out of the box from the live distro, the problem I have seen is when you adjust the layout and resolution using the GUI, it can help if you close the settings GUI after each little change to allow the displays to adjust before opeing the GUI again for the next tweak.
Either way, rebooting can be the major factor if you're trying to switch cabling. Even though you can generally plug & unplug VGA or HDMI cables safely while in use, if there is more than one display output on the back of the PC, the ones which have nothing (recognizable) plugged in when you power up can be very likely to be non-functional until you reboot.
Re: There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
#89It certainly is. However, caveat emptor: https://ludditus.com/2024/05/27/epic-linux-saga/
Re: There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on the comments, I guess I should clarify. Yes, I can plug my monitors in and log into my system. However, it is a crap shoot that an application will 1. choose the correct monitor / remember the chosen monitor after reboot 2. render text in the correct resolution for the monitor 3. correctly render in the new resolution when dragged across monitors 4. correctly respect the "primary" monitor setting instead of…
I just had to blow away my Linux mint cinnamon install because of display and audio issues with screen detection and my desktop freezing if I changed my volume after my audio devices changed. If I was lucky enough to have it start responding I could fix it until the next time I forgot I unplugged my headphones by restarting cinnamon. If I was unlucky I would need to restart. I was more often unlucky. I also had to co…
The audio on Mint with an old Dell desktop is bugging me too. Didn't used to be like this.
For years the audio IC's have been very flexible, with the analog I/O pins re-routable by software (expected to be drivers) to any of the 3.5mm jacks that may be scattered on the outside of the PC, along with any aux connections that may be merely an unused internal motherboard socket.
Otherwise you wouldn't be able to use a single socket for either speakers or a microphone, and have the system figure out which one it is when plugged in. And things like that. When they first color-coded the 3.5mm analog I/O's it was the 20th century and it was still a hard-wired approach.
With a modern motherboard the same exact board can be connected to a cabinet having 2 or 3 of the 3.5mm, or 5 or 6 and configuration could be selected (sometimes in advance) by specific factory drivers, accessible settings in a GUI, or both.
Windows isn't perfect any more by any means. Windows 7 or XP still works ideally with the original Dell drivers, but with W10 nothing ever comes out of the green 3.5mm, you have to plug speakers into the black 3.5mm. At least you get stereo then, but could select mono from Windows if you wanted to.
Using the newer Mint, you only get output from the green 3.5mm as expected, but usually only the left speaker gets any signal. Although sometimes you can set it for 5.1 surround and the whole pair of speakers will respond as the center channel. Depending on what you were doing with Windows before you rebooted to Linux, and whether or not you cold-power-up. But there is no provision to set Mint for mono at all which would be the perfect workaround.
That would get us by until the flaws in the audio get corrected. It would be good to have user access to the pin-to-jack hardware configuration too, but the inconsistency could be a sign of deeper defects.
Didn't used to be this bad.