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Elementary OS
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Re: Elementary OS
#262Funny how everyone here in comments and author is saying "I really like Elementary OS" but nobody really wants/is ready to use it.
I paid for it and put it on both of my kids' computers. They like it a lot.
Re: Elementary OS
#263My mini Ask HN: After over a decade of using Mac OS X, I am considering switching to Linux for my dev laptop. The tools I worry about are those that interact with audio and webcam - Go To Meeting, Google Hangout etc. My work involves me having to teleconf with others often. Does anyone here have experience using Linux well in such scenarios. If so, what hardware are you using? Also, does sleep-on-closing-lid work wel…
"Also, does sleep-on-closing-lid work well?" Funny story: My new-ish Dell laptop (Inspiron 15 7559 i7 with 4k touchscreen display; which I got at an absurdly low sales price from the Dell outlet store) does not reliably recover from sleep under Windows, but does under Linux (neither worked when I first got the laptop, but now only Windows fails and now only some of the time). That's a first, for me, as I have had a h…
I've been using Fedora on my desktop machine for a few months and it's fantastic. Because I had such a good experience with it I decided to sell my MacBook Pro about a month ago and bought this laptop. Dual-booted Fedora 24 and Windows (for gaming) and I'm loving it. Like you, I had to finagle Fedora a bit to get it working but now I use it as my main dev machine.
Re: Elementary OS
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly! For example, Skylake support is not mature enough in Linux atm.
Can you give an example of issues? I’m running on a 6700 here with ARCH.
Here is an explation by an FSF board member. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html
Re: Elementary OS
#265I've been an elementaryOS user for years and I ended up dropping the whole thing in favour of xfwm4 + synapse + tint2. eOS is a really nice looking thing, but it's buggy, release after release it's losing features, like [1] - this specific one was never fixed in the previous release. The built-on music app collapses under a reasonable amount of music, same as banshee or quod libet can easily handle. Geary, the mail a…
> Geary, the mail app looks nice, but lacks basic features and has a tendency to corrupt IMAP folders. Geary was forked after Yorba wound down, and Elementary are moving it over to the Evolution backend, incidentally.
Forgive my ignorance - what implications does this have? Would Evolution run as some kind of daemon, and Geary just add the presentation layer on top?
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
I managed a internal version of jitsi meet, its great, but it has had a bunch of glitches and issues with parties with more than ~15 people on it.
Heeeey so, if we're talking about potential alternatives here? I need to just leave this here and encourage anyone looking for something better to take a look: https://www.meetspaceapp.com Full disclaimer: I'm a friend of the founder, however I'm a paying customer due to the fact that 1. It's worked wonders with my clients and 2. It's so much better than hangouts or skype. Compared to the big boys it may be considere…
The reason we stuck with jitsi-meet is that it could be self hosted on an semi-airgapped network, and not break without internet. Also, your friend should invest in a ssl cert, because your link goes directly to a privacy warning.
Re: Elementary OS
#267I really wanted to use Elementary, but couldn't get my Lenovo laptop to connect to WiFi... Someday maybe
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
These rely on libspotify which Spotify have not updated for years. Sadly they recently also removed the download links from their site. The new Linux SDK has been promised for a couple of years now but nothing has emerged. The future for Spotify on Linux looks bleak. https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/libspotify/#libsp...
What's wrong with the browser version?
No MPRIS (media keys, media info display), no local caching, poorer power usage (browser vs native)
Re: Elementary OS
#269I really wanted to use Elementary, but couldn't get my Lenovo laptop to connect to WiFi... Someday maybe
Lenovo and Dell sometimes have broadcom wifi which are utter crap. If you do go down that route just order an intel wifi and replace it, normally a 5 minutes job and save hours worth of headaches.
Re: Elementary OS
#270What about power management? I've heard that elementary is not as good as MacOSX at that.
That depends on hardware (and amount of proprietary firmwares) really. On newer Macs where a lot of things are non-standard and controlled via EFI, it's going to be tough - same as BootCamp where Apple doesn't provide drivers for powersaving. On things like ThinkPads, XPS Developer Editions, etc. the battery is rather comparable to their Windows counterparts for most cases.
Surprised to hear that Apple does not provide power management for other operating systems. Are there any recent benchmarks for macOS versus Windows in terms of power saving?