Office and Teams work fine on office.com if you’re properly licensed. They probably even have pseudo local apps for Linux, otherwise they will within the year.
You can configure sudo so that it doesn’t require you to enter a password. However I would strongly discourage this, since it also allows any script or program to execute root commands without your approval.
ChromeOS right? Is that the answer to the blogs unanswered question? Of what if Linux but supported by a MAANG company made for people who don’t want to delve into computer science or engineering or tinkering.
Right in the middle of a freeze right now, but the cursor still moves and the sound went muted. I’m pretty sure I saw errors before regarding pipe wire, pulseaudio, and I think another related program
There’s a lot of love for it here, so I guess my experience isn’t typical. I updated to Ubuntu Lunar Lobster on my home media machine, which comes with PipeWire by default, and it’s utter shit. The vocals and some instruments in my music tracks only play nearly inaudibly from the center channel of my 5.1 surround system. It’s unlistenable, even with the center volume boosted.
Seriously, what am I missing? How can it do audio that poorly?
I’ve never had a multi-channel setup to experience configuring it, but I am sure there must be guidance out there. In my own experience PW improved my Linux audio experience quite a bit by resolving some issues I had with glitchy audio on my DAC and audio latency that was noticeable in some games.
That’s my current laptop since 2+ years go and I love it. Battery lasts a day no prob for regular work. If you’re constantly compiling it won’t, but then on battery it throttles a lot so it gives you good balance.
Anyway, with tlp you can tweak it a lot, I’m mostly going with the defaults, just lowered the max charge to protect the battery.
Only thing not working out of the box on Ubuntu is the fingerprint reader. I read that there are ways but I haven’t bothered.
I do most things via flatpakk by default. It provide an aditional layer of reliability to the apps I use. When somehing goes wrong, with a new update or st like that, it would just break the app rather than my entire system. The sandboxing is definitely a plus when using something like WINE, as a lot of games/apps required a specific version of it. Managing them when they are installed natively is really stressful, since mistake there can break you system as well. All of these Flatpak benefits is doublely important when I recommend Linux to less tech-savy people, i.e. my cousin/mom.
Nevertheless, there are apps that have worse-that-native flatpak version, or required to be native to be full-featured (system configuration, i.e. Dconf).
Hehe, installed both nobara and windows on my brothers pc. Nobara installed without issues, immediately usable with wifi. Windows didn’t recognize drives at first, had to reflash the iso, i assume that was an iso issue not necessarily windows but you never know. Then, 0 internet, no wifi drivers :) Hotspot with phone and cable in order to make the pc have basic functionality, the true windows experience.
I love Nobara and will keep using it for my Linux needs but you must have got a borked .iso cause I’ve built windows machines for all of my friends from scratch and never once had an issue like that.
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