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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by ekianjo »

tombert wrote: post #365
shevy-java wrote: post #197

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I found it was horrible. It is similar to GNOME here - a design for tablets and smartphones. It simply does not work on the desktop computer.

I disagree with this characterization. I don't run Gnome now (since I have more fun hacking on Sway), but I really don't think that the characterization of it being a "tablet desktop" is actually very fair. I found Gnome to be very productive, and actually extremely keyboard focused. Outside of a tiling window manager like Sway or i3, I actually have found it more keyboard-centric than any other desktop I've used. Th…

GNOME gets flak because they keep removing stuff people want for no good reason.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by Rayosay »

oliwarner wrote: post #167
Rayosay wrote: post #53

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I think that the ThinkPad X13s Gen1 might meet these requirements. It is my favorite ARM Linux laptop I've ever used. It has great support in Debian 13 (trixie), and it feels pretty smooth and fast. It doesn't have any fans, stays cool, and I regularly get a full day's worth of battery life out of it with margin to spare (10-12 hours). It's better than the newer Snapdragon X1 Elite based ThinkPads, in my opinion, eve…

Have you managed to get sleep states to work? I'd love mine but it never sleeps properly. Ubuntu but I'd change for sleep.

I haven't really played around with that much, sorry. I don't typically use sleep on my laptops. I prefer to either hibernate or just shutdown and start up again when I need it.

I'd guess that the X13s hardware support in Ubuntu is likely as good as Debian, and switching probably wouldn't help you much. I have noticed that newer kernel versions (notably 6.12 and later) and the latest firmware (as of sometime last year) really fixed a lot of little issues for the X13s. That probably makes a bigger difference than the distro. I'd check to see which versions you're using.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by mr_toad »

palata wrote: post #431
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #83

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> I find it so odd that Apple put so much weight behind the VisionOS design, rolling it out to all platforms, considering so few people have Vision Pro. I suspect they began working on Liquid Glass before the Vision Pro was publicly unveiled, so they didn't know what the public response would be. What I honestly find more baffling is that they thought the Vision Pro would sell well. It just isn't a good product. Perh…

> What I honestly find more baffling is that they thought the Vision Pro would sell well. Those monopolies seem so scared to "miss the next smartphone" that they invest heavily in whatever their competitors do. Everybody was running after VR/AR headsets, now everybody is running after AI. They see the others run somewhere, they run in that direction. Just in case.

> Those monopolies seem so scared to "miss the next smartphone" that they invest heavily in whatever their competitors do.

Monopolies so scared of the competition?

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by noAnswer »

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #410
noAnswer wrote: post #356

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I don't doubt you had that problem. But it, and the solution you want, sound a bit strange. You want a button that gives your user access to everything despite its access settings... Than login and work as root. I mean it's hard to tell what really happened. But a different user could have created this files with access rights only for himself on purpose. Something one can do with NTFS on Windows too. It also could h…

Yes. Another user could have restricted access rights on purpose, maybe? But I can still apparently seize them for myself by typing an arcane command into the terminal. Why shouldn't the UI give me a way to do this more easily? If it requires typing in an admin password to solve, so be it, but at least the UI could lead me to the answer while offering a password prompt. And yes, I wasn't telling you that Windows has…

Hm, I'm a KDE user. I just tested what happens when I try to open a folder I don't have access rights for. The standard file browser Dolphin says authentication is required. "Act as administrator." If clicked there comes a warning and I can enter my password. Than it shows the content.

https://i.postimg.cc/VLgkWpy7/image.png

This feature exists since 2022.

https://kde.haraldsitter.eu/posts/kio-admin/

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by [deleted] »

tombert wrote: post #365
shevy-java wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found it was horrible. It is similar to GNOME here - a design for tablets and smartphones. It simply does not work on the desktop computer.

I disagree with this characterization. I don't run Gnome now (since I have more fun hacking on Sway), but I really don't think that the characterization of it being a "tablet desktop" is actually very fair. I found Gnome to be very productive, and actually extremely keyboard focused. Outside of a tiling window manager like Sway or i3, I actually have found it more keyboard-centric than any other desktop I've used. Th…

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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by protocolture »

toddmorey wrote: post #9

Commercial OSes (both Windows and MacOS) now feel so insanely agenda driven, and the agenda no longer feels like anything close to making the user happy and productive. For Mac, it feels like Apple wants to leverage what came out of VisionOS and unify the look and feel of mobile and desktop--two things no one asked for. For Windows, it feels like ads for their partners and ensuring they don't fumble the ai/agent tran…

Commercial OS's are terrible, but theres nothing that gets me on guard more than someone claiming theres an "agenda". The word has lost all meaning.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by osamabinladen »

conz wrote: post #430
llmslave3 wrote: post #296

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Last time I tried Linux I was so done with Windows I installed Arch. Couldn't connect to Wifi. I figured it was Arch, so I installed Ubuntu. Literally the same problem. So I got a new USB wifi adaptor that said it supported Linux...same problem. I gave up and have been using a MacBook ever since lol.

Re: "I gave up and have been using a MacBook ever since lol." I'm curious. What will you do when Apple too starts shoehorning AI into every part of MacOS and when Apple introduces increasingly unpalatable or government-mandated surveillance functionality like Microsoft is doing with Recall? What will you do then?

Asahi linux to not waste hardware and then move away from apple products slowly. But in the meantime, their products are good and are Unix based so they're not a pain for development.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by clait »

Capricorn2481 wrote: post #334
bigyabai wrote: post #203

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> it is problem free enough The money's paw curls. I used to love macOS, back in the Mojave days. You could run almost anything you wanted, and still get work done on a decently made machine. Those were the days when the grass truly felt greener to me, macOS for creative work simply annihilated any other option on the table. Then Catalina stripped out 32-bit compatibility, ruining my Ableton Live project folder and S…

Ableton supports 64 bit. How did that ruin your projects?

32 bit plugins probably.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by 20after4 »

ryukoposting wrote: post #447
20after4 wrote: post #306

I've been using nothing but Linux on my desktop since 2013. Converted my parents around 2015. Rarely a complaint from them and I haven't even once considered switching back to Windows. My shiny new Macbook Air is collecting dust. Almost all of my gaming is done on a SteamDeck or a Linux desktop. The only applications that I can think of where Windows or Mac are still relevant would be CAD and Audio/Video production.…

This mirrors my experience. Most stuff you do on Windows "just works" on Linux nowadays, and when it doesn't, there are low-friction alternatives. The one pain point for me is film and book scanning. AFAICT there are exactly zero Linux software packages that will play nice with my Epson V800 or my Fujitsu SV600. I keep a Windows laptop around (second-gen ThinkPad X1 since you asked) and its only job is to talk to tho…

For film scanning (which I do only very rarely) I've resorted to just using my digital camera with a light box to illuminate the film and a nice macro lens to focus on the frame.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by mitthrowaway2 »

noAnswer wrote: post #494
mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #410

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Yes. Another user could have restricted access rights on purpose, maybe? But I can still apparently seize them for myself by typing an arcane command into the terminal. Why shouldn't the UI give me a way to do this more easily? If it requires typing in an admin password to solve, so be it, but at least the UI could lead me to the answer while offering a password prompt. And yes, I wasn't telling you that Windows has…

Hm, I'm a KDE user. I just tested what happens when I try to open a folder I don't have access rights for. The standard file browser Dolphin says authentication is required. "Act as administrator." If clicked there comes a warning and I can enter my password. Than it shows the content. https://i.postimg.cc/VLgkWpy7/image.png This feature exists since 2022. https://kde.haraldsitter.eu/posts/kio-admin/

Good! That's exactly what I would like to have happen! I think the error was more like that it didn't have permission to mount the drive. I logged the message at the time, but I don't have access to that computer this week, so I'm going from memory.
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