Funny how Microsoft does this just before the October EOL deadline for Windows 10, when a whole bunch of hardware is being forcibly obsoleted…

I’ve got only one machine left running Windows 10 at home: a desktop PC I use exclusively for gaming. I increasingly look forward to purging Windows from it and installing Bazzite when the EOL date comes around.

I have to daily drive a Mac for work, and it’s a constant pain. Fortunately, there are signs that the PC world is catching up with Apple hardware, most recently in the form of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 series CPUs. The Linux support isn’t there yet, but it’s likely just a matter of time before we too can enjoy excellent battery life and great performance.

I hear the Linux community on Microsoft GitHub is pretty big too these days.

If you have a Smart Bed^TM, Linux might even be in your bed.

Nice! I just bought an ARM laptop and installed Ubuntu on it, only to later learn that Ubuntu package support for RISCV is even more extensive than for ARM. I guess I’ll go with RISCV for my next machine.

Wait, encryption counts as bullshit now? ;)

Back in the early days of Ubuntu, I was blown away by the amount of interesting free stuff on Synaptic, so I started installing everything that caught my eye. A few hours later and my Ubuntu install was completely borked. I think the install scripts back then we’re pretty unregulated, so there was probably a ton of conflicting dependencies causing trouble.

I eventually reinstalled the os. Then I did the same thing again. Twice. Then I learned.

I use joe regularly for in-terminal editing. It’s easy, lightweight and very helpful, unlike vi…

Are… are we the baddies one percent?

I’ve (almost) always had good experiences with Lenovo laptops, especially T-series or X1 Carbon.

I imagine OP had a neckbeard, belt and suspenders and was carrying a copy of Gödel-Escher-Bach.

Out of curiosity, do you ever rescue laptops from your work and use or resell them?

Kate, Terminator, k4dirstat and the amazing clipboard history app in KDE.

Not OP, but I’ve been running Kubuntu since 2017 since it’s desktop environment looks and works very similar to Windows 7 (desktop with icons, taskbar, launcher, search, options, etc) which is what I was used to after running Windows for two decades before. It’s also stable and sees a lot of mainstream apps being ported to it.

Snaps. Everyone seems to hate them for ideological reasons rather than practical reasons. But for me, they just work. And if Canonical gets out of line, there’s already been proof of concepts of third-party snap repositories, so that’s a moot point.

Flatpaks seem like a solution in search of a problem to me. Not everything is a gui app, so not sure why the devs aren’t supporting cli apps well. But the biggest problem is that most software I use simply isn’t available as flatpaks.