LainOfTheWired @ LainOfTheWired @lemy.lol

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Though Macs seem to at least at some points be good Linux devices. Though I have no idea about the newer arm based ones

I mean it is made by Microsoft😆

From what I know that it only for arm based devices and the surface pros are x86 based

I wonder if this effects coreboot builds like heads as they allow you to use external devices like a nitrokey for verification when you boot

I don't exactly know why, but part of it could be that due to different open source licences they have to keep things separate, because the kernel is licenced under the GPL, and the Intel video libraries probably aren't.

Another reason could be simply not wanting bloat, but with everything a standard kernel does come with I guess probably not

One interesting point is that some aspects of Linux are actually really good for people who struggle to learn new things as a lot of things on Linux are very consistent, and don't feel the need to reinvent the wheel every few years like Microsoft.

Because anyone with older relatives or tech illiterate friends knows the fear of a looming new Windows release on having those people suddenly be asking us how to do basic things like change the WiFi network due to Microsoft changing it again.

And for some strange reason young people somehow getting a sense of superiority due to the fact they were able to find the new menu before their parents that was perfectly good before Microsoft changed it again.

Good time to switch to an open source degoogled android ROM and set up your own push notification server.

Until people stop giving up their freedom to these companies by agreeing to legal documents they don't even read, it's only going to get worse.

For me on Arch and also, but a lot less frequent fedora I find that it works fine then every few months there's an update that breaks it for a few days till it gets patched. But besides that it works fine for me. I use blueman in DWM BTW

I love the fact that Arch chan is showing up in more and more of the community

It looks like one of those soulless Apple animoji things.

Honesty if you have to have Microsoft and adobe stuff get a Mac.

Sure the hardware sucks, but at least you're getting a Unix based OS that while is inferior to Linux is a lot more stable then Windows and everyone knows adobe software runs better on Macs due to most of the industry using them.

Honesty it's a shame MacOS is tied to Apple hardware( yes I know about hackintoshes, but that's a messy unofficial work around )

As someone who has daily driven all 3 for at least a couple years my OS ranking is:

1. Linux
2. MacOS
3. Windows

But if you can live without proprietary software use Linux.

Also out of interest what got you on Lemmy if you're not into FOSS and Linux? Just wondering why other people join.

I do have a long term goal of learning C and making an actually good sixel patch, but that's for ST. Like sure Wayland gets rid of the screen tearing I occasionally get on my old Intel GPU in my laptop, but why would I spend so much time porting patches when X11 when that's my only gripe with it.

Can we keep mainstream politics out of here please. I'm sick of them getting shoved into everything.

I would switch if all my DWM patches worked on DWL, but till they write the same patches for DWL I'm sticking with X11

Ubuntu actually still had the unity desktop environment when I started using it. And I wasn't happy when they switched to gnome. Thats part of why I stopped using it

Or :wq

"But 3rd party repair people will install TikTok on your phone if you trust them"

Just why?

It's been really sad watching them shoot themselves in the foot like this. They seem bent on destroying their distro. Which was the first distro I really used on an old laptop after trying a few.

Man Ubuntu 16 those were the days.

Wow another parent who doesn't parent what their kids do online. And then blames corpos for it, and even tries to get the UK taxpayer to pay for it. Sure roaming charges are ridiculous, but I don't even really ever travel and I know that.

People have already proven they will put up with about anything Microsoft throws at them, so they were never going to switch anyway.

Also you still can't uninstall the bootloader under windows.😆