Side note but if possible you could probably get a cheap SSD to replace the internal HDD which is likely to be the bottleneck of the system by now. Otherwise there's a bunch of great suggestions here.
Given they have a massive install base on PopOS GNOME that they've targeted for use friendliness, I think they're going to plan for an in place upgrade.
they could easily have done this after the fact and avoided the current reality which Will be Google using Linux foundation funding to protect its monopoly of the ecosystem
I've had an Nvidia based laptop too so I know the general weirdness you get with dual GPU setups, but as long as it doesn't act any MORE weird than that then I'm happy enough
it's an AMD laptop GPU, not Nvidia but I imagine the internal setup is gonna be the same. If the DP screen will always work with the iGPU without reboot that's no problem (Already have an adapter for my Steamdeck).
I'm mainly gonna use it for my KVM setup which uses one display via HDMI and one via DP-USB.
I use Photopea for Photoshop stuff, GIMP if what I'm doing needs a particular feature or does better (though that's not Very many anymore). Inkscape is surprisingly good once you get accustomed to the interface.
I've heard good things about Krita but I've not messed around with it at all, but it supposedly is much more modern and user friendly than GIMP but suited for digital art and drawing.
I'm hoping affinity comes to Linux, or at least proton/wine pushes hard for it because it's the one area where desktop Linux is really poor at the moment
Nvidia is just doing what every monopoly does, and AMD is just playing into it like they did on CPUs with Intel. They'll keep competing for price performance for a few years then drop something that drops them back on top (or at least near it).
yup. though if the laws of physics change then that also means the laws of physics holding your atoms together are gonna be blended up into a soup at the very least
The American conservative movement has become pretty adept at martyring people without actually needing them to die to be fair. Kyle Rittenhouse is a prime example.
Hell in the UK we had the (ex?) host of MasterChef, Greg Wallace, accused of being inappropriate with women in the workplace and making them feel unsafe and uncomfortable around him - Nothing illegal (that I know of), sure, but enough that he was rightfully dropped from whatever broadcaster was employing him.
Cut to a week into the tabloid media meltdown, Greg claims he "thinks he's on the spectrum" as an explanation for his sexually explicit and creepy behaviour around women. The usual shit where you're neuro typical until you're a prick then you're actually an autistic smol bean uWu.
When that didn't help, he then showed his true colours by claiming the "typical" kind of woman (I'm assuming he's referring to the trope of "ugly" women complaining about sexual harassment) making the complaints that got him fired.
"But they're just TV shows" "it's not that deep" etc. I would implore you to listen to this excellent episode of Citations Needed..
It covers how modern cop shows were invented directly to counter shows that portrayed defence lawyers as the protagonists, along with a general push to lionize the police state despite its inability to prevent crime or deliver real justice.
Pretty much spot on, though that is the exact point of these kinds of shows.
It was part of a wave of shows launched to counter the media perception of incompetence in law enforcement/prosecution. They pushed a bunch of dangerously misleading (or even outright fake) claims such as the reliability and accuracy of forensic evidence which has been later used in actual court cases to imprison innocent people.
As always, Citations needed has done a brilliant job on this kind of stuff that's worth a listen.
Donating millions of dollars to the medically declining rapist seems like a generally poor strategy when he turns on whoever is the weekly target of the right's bed-shitting contest.
Even more so when it is infinitely cheaper and moral to just pay someone to kill him.
So did Elden Ring when that launched. Initially it had terrible stuttering on DX12 but once Proton translated DX12 into Vulkan on Linux the stuttering was gone.
Side note but if possible you could probably get a cheap SSD to replace the internal HDD which is likely to be the bottleneck of the system by now. Otherwise there's a bunch of great suggestions here.