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A comment on the open format part:

I got insanely pissed off by recent news (even though I usually laugh at bad news) that the Czech Government cannot have an interconnected eGovernment system between different organizations because each part is made by a different supplier. Jeez just make a fucking github repo, it's not that hard. I just don't get how they can be this stupid, especially considering part of the Government is the Pirate party, The supposed IT guys. These "suppliers" aren't supplying airplane parts, it's merely software.

rant over. I tried to keep the f-bomb count to one, but I'm telling you, it was f- insanely hard. Writing this comment and remembering that atrocity reignited my rage.

edit: explicitly added "eGovernment" system

How do I install word? https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=LH-6tp-KBuQ

Alright thanks.

From what I've read you need an intel core i-* to run VMware so I wouldn't meet their CPU requirements, yet alone the OpenGL 4.5 GPU requirements. For some reason they don't support AMD GPUs and Intel GPUs aren't even mentioned, which is pretty funny.

Well I've run the fedora installer and it seems to kinda work. Although the guest core is still at 100% all the time, the scheduler assigns about 70% to the useful apps and the total host usage maxes at 90 % (usually is between 70 and 80 %) so I can still use the linux computer. Maybe I was just dumb and did not run the installer, or maybe it was just placebo. -it should be placebo, because I don't think I would be able to boot with virtio otherwise.

Anyways thanks for your comment, virtio without openGL is kinda usable-ish. It's at least better for excel than wine + software rendering. Doubt I will use it to view autocad files but that's to be expected.

Thanks for your reply. I'm using it this way because the quickemu windows does not boot with qxl without virtio-vga and if I use virtio with "vga none", the host core gets maxed out and both linux and windows are unresponsive. I'm guessing the virtio drive requires virtio-gpu too?

How do I install the display only driver? I found this:

https://github.com/utmapp/virtio-gpu-wddm-dod

but it has no README. Is that part of the fedora installer? I would be surprised if it wasn't included in the default quickemu installation. I'll try running the fedora installer (when I get time for it) and reply to you again when I'm done.

Sway is probably meh because it's a manual tiler. I use sway-autotiling in laptop mode and don't bother with switching the layout in tablet mode.

But generally the question should be "How does a stacking window manager even work with touch?" The answer is "like shit". Instead of having your windows automatically placed on the screen, you have to drag them around with your stylus.

I used to use KDE Bismuth (tiler for Plasma) and it was the best experience on a touchscreen I could imagine. I mainly used 2 tiling layouts. The usual Master+Stack for regular use and when watching lectures I used a layout which is almost stacking but makes the windows slightly smaller than full screen, so you can grab the window on the bottom easily. I had a keybind which reduced the opacity of a window making it see-through. That way I could have my lecture over almost the full screen while still being able to write over almost the entire screen.

Plasma also has the option to do something when you drag from a specific screen edge. I used that to launch the app launcher, to select workspaces and lock the screen.

They are just showing you that you don't need to spend $2000 on Autocad and other listed software, because Zorin has all these open source tools bundled in it.

Though tbh replacing Autocad or office365 with FOSS alternatives are bold claims because these alternatives just aren't viable in a commercial environment.

Thanks for your reply. Honestly what I'm asking for does not really exist. You have to pick from features, open source and plug-and-play-ness. Usually you can get 2 of the 3 but it's hard to get all three. So although I wouldn't buy this PC, it's a pretty good recommendation for stumbling on this post in the future.

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I don't think the Orange Pi 5 Plus is mainline Linux ready, or at least the RK3588 is not there yet so it seems to me that it's more of a hacky board. I don't think the Zimaboard is open source but it seems pretty good although I personally would buy a coreboot compatible small form factor PC if I went x86.

Thank you very much! This is probably the best answer.

For anyone from the future reading this: From my understanding almost every SBC does not really work with "Linus Torvalds' Linux" which is why one often sees HW manufacturers also providing their own Linux image with the computer. This is fine for development but honestly not something I would want for self hosting stuff. There are few exceptions like the Raspberry Pi but that one is not that much open source. So imo the best option is to look at https://ubuntu.com/download/risc-v where Ubuntu provides "official" images for few RISC-V boards. (The Visionfive 2 is what lead me there.)

Thanks, does it have mainline linux support though? I know I am kinda repeating myself but that is probably the most important point as I am not really a good hacker so I don't really want to buy hacky solutions.

Ok that's good then. Thanks for the reply!