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Windows has also needed external drivers installed at times, since the DOS days. It's the nature of obscure, new, or advanced hardware.
The difference was the device came with a disk containing the driver for DOS and Windows.
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Come on, buddy, at this point, nobody could take you seriously. You are attributing to the software and OS a difference that exists because of hardware. You can’t seriously sit here and say Linux battery life on x86 doesn’t reach your par when you’re comparing it to a completely different computing architecture. You’re comparing apples to oranges and complaining the oranges are more sour than the apples. Run Asahi Li…
I don’t care why it’s better. Whose fault is it that Linux gets worse battery life on every computer that also runs Windows or MacOS?
So you're clueless about computers and your opinion can be disregarded.
Is there some subject you actually know about that you'd like to share?
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Bro I don't care how long the battery life is. I use my laptop plugged in 90% of the time. The portability is so I can change what location I'm sitting at, not so I can be unplugged constantly.
It's the same for me. I understand that people do want to use them without plugging in, but I would imagine at least most developers prefer external screens, right? For me the battery is good enough when it can last two back-to-back meetings without me getting worried, so about 2.5 hours. Otherwise it stays plugged to USB-C.
And this stand
Metal Tablet Stand, a Portable... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4KH2GH3
The monitor is both powered and the video comes from one USB cord. My MacBook Pro can run 5-6 hours while powering the monitor. I couldn’t do that if the laptop by itself only last 3 hours.
Every now and then I use my iPad as a third monitor.
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My “work life” involves business travel - consulting. My personal life involves month long stints of me working outside the home and even at home, I am sometimes working on the patio enjoying 80 degree weather in the middle of winter in Florida…
> travel - consulting That's why pity
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Nope. I tweaked one setting via the GUI (to get the taskbar back to the left where it rightfully belongs). Literally everything else I've left as-is. The IoT edition doesn't come with any bloatware and Rufus does a couple of other tweaks automatically.
But you should, if you have any self-respect.
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Re: "Or maybe the operating system should just work reliably for (at least) the basics?" So, out of curiosity, if I tried installing MacOS on any of the 15+ computers I have at home, what are the likely chances that this "operating system should just work reliably for (at least) the basics?" I can tell you that my success rate with Linux is 100%.
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Also, it's not ok to create new accounts to abuse HN with, so please don't do that.
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Except many of those contributions never land upstream. Hence why we usually with the cloud provider distros. Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob.
That’s the wrong way to look at it. Instead, look at how much does land upstream. Linux moves at an incredible pace. Edit: BTW the figure I cited are contributors to mainline.
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Thanks for formulating this, as I’m too lazy to even start the conversation with the folks who’d like to have a lot of everything on their screens, with myriads of distractions and just ugly little everything. Otherwise ‘that’s tablet,’ and it’s ‘the Gnome team pushing their nonsense,’ not the particular user being used to something completely wrong from the UI/UX perspective. I’m having no issues with teaching Gnome…
As one of these folks who want a lot of everything on my screen, I'm baffled by your declarations that my workflow is somehow objectively "wrong". Go convince Airbus that the cockpit can only have two gauges, and needs a lot of blank space.
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I love GrapheneOS, but note that it only runs on Google Pixels. But that's what I chose for the smartphone. Hopefully GrapheneOS will soon be supported by a non-US phone...
Note that Google Pixel hardware is just fine and not evil, and they're looking at a different vendor for the next version anyway, because Google is making it so the Pixel will only run approved OSes.
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> Linux is also realistically American I think this is objectively true. The Linux Foundation is also US based. We saw this when Russsian contributors were banned from the kernel to comply with US sanctions. The big difference of course is that relying on Linux does not have to mean realying on US corporations. At the level of a nation-state, and certainly at the level of a larger political collective like the EU, co…
Distros cannot realistically work without hardware support. Hardware is designed in America. The licensing for the software to use the hardware is controlled by the United States I mean I can write a kernel right now with all the computer systems theory implemented, but without the architecture specs, the firmware, etc, this is completely useless.