UnPassive @ UnPassive @lemmy.world

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Linux people like security, it's a security concern to give Nvidia's proprietary drivers such low level access

If their calls violate GPL then I don't even know why you're being sarcastic. Not acceptable. Copyleft licenses HAVE to be respected legally. Silly to pretend like the license shouldn't have to apply to Nvidia. If a user wants to install proprietary Nvidia drivers, they still can. But Linux isn't picking a fight, GPL is what makes Linux Linux.

Love pop!_OS, Manjaro is a really cool and good fork of Arch that's easy to install if rolling distributions are something you're interested in

Last weekend I talked my wife into trying Linux on her desktop on an extra SSD I had, she loves it. Loves that she can customize everything, says it's faster (especially boot time), we put it on her laptop last night

Yes for Ratchet and Clank! Super glad they ported a rift apart to PC, been enjoying it

Since setting up emulation on my steam deck, I've been playing way too much SSX tricky...

I don't have a 4K TV or surround sound, but people online seem to report both work

I use my steam deck docked as a Home Theater PC (HTPC) with a remote with a gyroscopic mouse and full keyboard on the back, and I love it. YouTube with ad block, jellyfin media server, and videogames

Wouldn't want to give the lawyers anything to work with.

I use an ad blocker and the empty space between information (presumably where ads should be) is hilariously large

I'll work on adopting this attitude! No need to be frustrated over what you don't control

Similar boat, but it still pains me using Windows at work. I'm constantly frustrated at work when I accidentally open something in Edge. Not my computer, but still my experience

You could think of it as the companies fault, you can combat Microsoft if you have the know how, but personally I feel like Microsoft is abusing their power by strongly coercing users to use their services.

AMD GPUs have open source linux drivers meaning no extra configuration is needed on install. Some linux distros make setting up Nvidia really easy, but I ran into problems years ago. I think Nvidia is theoretically releasing open source drivers soon though

Twice after a windows update I lost my bootloader menu and my laptop would boot straight into Windows. After the second time I just removed Windows. Some investigation revealed that "Windows does not support dual booting" which I believe translates to "we will ocationally cause issues that a beginner would struggle to fix in the hopes of them staying on Windows." Just a theory. Separate drives for sure if you can. No idea if they still do this as it's been years since I dual booted

I mean, I agree, but the problem isn't just that I see this at work. I shouldn't have to see it on a paid operating system. This is a normal user experience on Windows. Ads everywhere is annoying. I understand people can be proactive to disable this stuff, but I think it's crumby of Microsoft to do

It's a work laptop We're a small company - I still feel like calling our IT terrible instead of Microsoft is misguided though

It was literally a notification; made a sound and everything. Didn't go out of my way to see it. I'm not used to ads in my operating system so it was jarring. Surprised people accept it as normal

Lol I had to install AutoHotKey just to be able to do some basic keymapping on Windows. "Can be made good" is so different than "is good"

But yes our IT team is just one dude with a degree in biology