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erwan ,
  • Stay clear from nvidia. AMD if you buy a graphics card, if you just use integrated graphics both AMD and Intel are fine
  • When picking a motherboard, look what wifi chipset is used and check Linux compatibility. Some wifi chipsets require to manually install drivers, and some just don’t work at all
erwan ,

Then just buy a cable.

erwan ,

For me atomic distributions are the way to go.

You get a rock solid base system that get updated automatically, and every single user has the same image so you can’t get into a bug that’s only reproduced on your system because of your combination of system packages. If for any reason you have a problem with an image update, you can always boot on the previous image from grub.

Then user apps come on top of that, and can’t break the base system.

I know you tried Kinoite and got stuck, but there is always a way to unblock yourself and install what you want. If it’s not in flatpak there is homebrew (for CLI), and if it’s in neither there is distrobox. You can also do a rpm-ostree for native packages if all the others fail.

You can also check universal blue, Aurora in particular if you want KDE. It’s based on Fedora Silverblue but with an improved out-of-the-box experience.

universal-blue.org

erwan ,

There are a few improvements in Aurora over Silverblue that you might like.

It ships with homebrew which is perfect for CLI tools.

It ships with distrobox instead of toolbx which is much better. You can install any distro while toolbx is just a Fedora. For example I’m using Arch in toolbox because of the number of packages and the fact that they’re usually up to date (no need to wait for a major release).

So far I never had to use rpm-ostree, and for VSCode I use distrobox precisely because of the permissions.

erwan ,

Private Internet Access is just a VPN?

I’ve had no issues installing the flatpak for ProtonVPN and using it.

erwan ,

Yes, as a Gen X I’m sometimes surprised how tech illiterate some of my generation are…

Then I remember when we were kids and people like me using computers were seen as weird geeks and “normal people” wouldn’t get close to a computer.

Leading smartphone vendor in each country (sh.itjust.works)

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erwan ,

It’s sad how you recognize that Apple tactics to artificially keep their users captive is working for you.

I would rather suffer an inconvenience than recognizing I’m captive of a company.

erwan ,

FILEID.DIZ

erwan ,

It’s legal in US but not in most other countries

erwan ,

If I have a new PC with a blank hard drive, what should be the install order?

Windows, then rEFInd, then Linux?

Why are so many leaders in tech evil?

I remember when I was growing up, tech industry has so many people that were admirable, and you wanted to aspire to be in life. Bill Gates, founders of Google Larry Page, Sergey brin, Steve Jobs (wasn’t perfect but on a surface level, he was still at least a pretty decent guy), basically everyone involved in gaming from Xbox...

erwan ,

Honestly, Google back in the day was a great company. They were focused on putting the best product for consumer, supported open standards, kept ads at a minimum… A bit like Valve today. They really were “good guys”.

Then I’m not sure what happened, they stopped caring and left the MBAs in charge maybe.

erwan ,

They make the contrast smaller because they don’t go over the bump. Also they can integrate it more seemlessly than this sharp 90 degrees angle.

erwan ,

Yes Mozilla is a good example. They’re run like any other Silicon Valley company and spend more in C-suite develop their damn product.

erwan ,

Too bad he spent all his energy getting Linux users to say GNU/Linux instead of talking about the real issues

erwan ,

I too prefer big distros, but niche distros are usually big distros with small tweaks in the default config or installed packages. It’s Debian/Fedora/Arch slightly tweaked.

erwan ,

The problem of being stuck on an old kernel isn’t because of Google or Android, but because of chip makers (e.g. Qualcomm) not providing drivers.

erwan ,

Windows have always been trash. Windows 9x were the worse.

Windows NT was better, Windows XP was trash at release then got better with updates (the service packs).

Windows Vista was a shitshow, then 7 was better. Windows 8 was horrible, the 10 was a bit better.

Windows always oscillates between trash and acceptable. There is not much to “ruin” to be honest.

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erwan ,

Good, Baker can go find an other x millions salary elsewhere because it’s necessary for her family (as she said in an interview), and Firefox can become a community project again that still pays salary to actual developers but without the expensive bullshitting C-suite.

erwan ,

I don’t know, because it sucks and has zero benefits over PNG?

erwan ,

There is already a “lite” version of uBlock origin that conforms to the new manifest and will still work.

There are still a few features missing, some can’t be implemented but others will be.

erwan ,

When AOSP was first released, it included all necessary app. Now many of them have been replaced by Google’s proprietary app.

There is also the Play Services, necessary for many third party apps. I know an open source compatible lib exists, but it’s not the same as not needing it at all.

Yes you can use a fully Open Source Android system, but it’s getting farer and farer from a “standard” Android install with all the Google proprietary stuff.

Would being a Linux "power user" increase my chances of getting a job in IT/tech?

I’m trying to get a job in IT that will (hopefully) pay more than a usual 9 to 5. I’m been daily driving Linux exclusively for about 2 1/2 years now and I’m trying to improve my skills to the point that I could be considered a so-called “power user.” My question is this: will this increase my hiring chances...

erwan ,

Most places deploy to Linux, and for those knowing Linux helps a lot. Also a lot of places will give MacBook pro, expect you to know the CLI so a lot of Linux knowledge will be useful there.

erwan ,

John left McAfee 15 years earlier

erwan ,

Moreover, that’s the argument you hear when talking about their compensation. “But think of the responsibility and risk they take!”

erwan ,

I hate to break it to you, but companies with actual safe rails to deploying to production do exist.

And when things go wrong, it’s never the responsibility on a single dev. It’s also the dev who reviewed the PR. It’s also the dev who buddy approved the deploy. It’s the whole department that didn’t have enough coverage in CI.

erwan ,

Don’t forget the Ubuntu restaurant.

www.ubuntula.com

Just be careful with the silverware, they can Snap if you’re too rough.

erwan ,

I really enjoyed the diversity of WM/DE back then, and the innovation when new ones like Enlightenment were released!

erwan ,

Participating in the network doesn’t compromise your privacy.

erwan ,

I believe they’re talking about the damages made by Bob Swan, the previous CEO who is indeed an MBA and was CFO of Intel before.

erwan ,

They’re living off the rent from older products. What’s their last innovation? Vision Pro??

erwan ,

It’s easy to make the most capable product if you disregard the price point completely.

erwan ,

What does Google have to do with that?

erwan ,

I love Steam and I love Gabe, but the system we have that let Steam extract so much money out of the gaming industry is broken.

And that’s true for software or online services in general, and I’m saying that as someone who benefit from that system as a software engineer.

erwan ,

Steam is the best, and we’re lucky that Steam is the one that won rather than another. Which could definitely have happened because once one of them is in place it’s extremely hard to change.

So the situation is good for gamers, but from an economic point of view it’s bad.

erwan ,

It’s a monopoly because gamers go where games are, and developers go where customers are.

For the same reason Apple App Store / Play Store is a duopoly.

erwan ,

ARM Inc is an English company owned by a Japanese company

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erwan ,

Journalists want clicks, and they get more by talking about “leaks”.

erwan ,

A new midrange is better than a 3 years old flagship, if only for the software updates.

Plus you still have your old phone to resell or hand down to a family member.

erwan ,

XBOX must have 100% of games available on Playstation. Otherwise nobody will ever switch.

erwan ,

If a game doesn’t run on Linux I can’t even try it. No risk of it becoming my favorite game!

erwan ,

That’s the thing, what’s wrong with 45 years old fathers?

erwan ,

Because once their app is installed on your phone, they can send you push notification ads for their next great shoes.

erwan ,

There is no emergency that can’t be handled by the adults of the school.

I can understand needing a phone for the commute, but at school it should stay in the bag turned off.

Why do you still hate Windows?

I realize this is a Linux community, but I was wondering why you still hate Windows. I mean, I love Linux, but I will not argue that it’s more convenient to the average person in most use cases to use Windows, I recently had to switch back to Windows and I realized how convenient it all was and how I was missing so many things...

erwan ,

I don’t hate Windows, I don’t care about it. I don’t use it.

erwan ,

Communication is encrypted, it’s https.

erwan , (edited )

I have to say, as a Linux fan in the 90’s it was very cool to see Linux eating the whole server space, replacing older Unix while Microsoft tried desperately to grow Windows on the server market.

erwan ,

I have that in my ICE car and I never use it (map of gas stations correlated with remaining fuel). That’s not specific to an EV.

Any of those features can be in a smartphone attached to your dashboard. Sure you have some benefits in accessing the car data, but they are small.

Why does nobody here ever recommend Fedora to noobs?

I have tried Linux as a DD on and off for years but about a year ago I decided to commit to it no matter the cost. First with Mint, then Ubuntu and a few others sprinkled in briefly. Both are “mainstream” “beginner friendly” distros, right? I don’t want anything too advanced, right?...

erwan ,

Unfortunately boring distributions don’t get recommended because users of boring distributions don’t bother commenting on distribution discussions.

And it’s really unfortunate that obscure distributions have more vocal fans, because boring distributions are much better for beginners.

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