Same here. I feel like Sid is there to catch problems, so devs and maintainers use it as such. Arch aims to be stable, though obviously not to the degree of Debian Stable, and so devs and maintainers aim for that. If one wants the Arch equivalent to Sid, there’s the testing repo, but there’s much less of a delta between stable and testing in Arch, so there isn’t much point unless you actually want to help test.
Not to mention car insurance pricing.
I’ve been wanting to find an alternative to Thinkpads since Lenovo bought them, but despite them not being what they used to be, I just haven’t been happy with any alternatives. I’m hopeful for Framework improving on their modularity, and the System76 in-house design that’s in the works has me intrigued.
Right now I’m looking forward to their eventual redesign of the Z series. I doubt they’ll do it, but I’d love a light workstation class version of the Z16, with slightly higher end graphics, and a vapor chamber. I’m also hopeful that they work on Linux support for their ARM offerings, and bring back the X13s that they offered with Snapdragon 8 a couple years back.
Unfortunately, they have minimal support for US frequencies. The US market is dominated by disgustingly expensive flagships, and severely compromised midrange and budget offerings.
I’d give my left nut for a premium plastic phone…
The cool thing about Bazzite is, you can run their Arch container in Distrobox on any distro you prefer. I just have to run it with Podman, games load super slow using Docker.
I’m really looking forward to having sane functionality without needing a dozen extensions, and still have a couple things I just can’t quite reconcile. I tried to like Plasma, but once again, I just can’t stand using it for more than a month or two. And I don’t have time to get a more basic compositor working the way I want, like I did back in the Fluxbox/Openbox days, especially with how complex things have become.
I really hope System76 and XFCE both hurry up.
It’s sounding like an upgrade from Exynos 5300 to 5400, so I’m not expecting much.
I’m pretty sure they’re just treading water this year, and focusing on their in-house design for the Tensor G5 in 2025. Hopefully it doesn’t break Graphene support.
It is different, but it’s also logical, simple, and consistent. It handles average use cases very well, whereas KDE is more typical to Windows users, but can be cluttered and confusing because it seems to try to address every use case.
Red Hat fuckery aside, I still feel like Fedora is the best refined distro out of the box for the average user, and Gnome is the most consistent desktop. Immutability is perfect for grandparent types who don’t need much of any customization, so I’d strongly consider Silverblue. Just make it a habit to go upgrade releases every 6 months, you should be visiting more anyway ;)
I think they meant build as in configure your environment, not build as in from source. If that’s the case, they’re not exactly wrong. But once you get the bulk of it to your liking, it’s mostly fun little tweaks and accidents. It’s just a lot at first.
There’s a very good chance the key is stored in the EFI, making this the absolute easiest part. I’d just make sure to get the Windows installer on a USB stick before installing Linux, if there aren’t any other Windows machines around. And also make sure I have a wifi/ethernet driver available before reinstalling Windows, if it comes to that. It can be tricky to install Windows without network, these days, and even if you get past that (which I’d recommend, to bypass a Microsoft account), you still need it once you’re in the installed OS.
So they say. I’ll believe it when I see it.
No, different pages.
https://allthings.how/how-to-split-screen-in-microsoft-edge/
I don’t have much use for it, the way I tile, but I could see it being useful.
Yeah, I played with Silverblue for the first time a week or two ago, when I decided to move back to Gnome from Plasma. When I realized that I’d need to layer adw-dark to get rid of the light settings panel in Gnome Console, and then layer in aptx and ldac support, and then some drivers for hardware accel in Firefox… I came to undestand that truly approaching this as minimally layering, and instead properly relying on flatpak and toolbx/distrobox wasn’t going to work out. Instead I’m just going to get anxious every time I have to say, ‘well fuck, I guess I have to layer this too.’
That and I really don’t like the mess of a filesystem. So back to Arch, with some things learned to keep stuff I don’t like out of my base system. I can use a Bazzite-Arch container for Steam, to avoid having to enable multilib, for example. Well, if I can figure out the performance issues, anyway. And I know I’m weird, but I’d kind of like to avoid using AUR on my base system, and Flatpak kind of terrifies me for the reasons you mentioned
I do look forward to an immutable future, but I don’t think it’s going to make me happy for some time. Maybe Nix or GUIX, but that sounds like a winter project. I know some folks use an Arch base with Nix layered on top, but that rather sounds like the inverse of what I’d ideally want. It seems like the beauty of Nix is that you don’t have to worry about layering, because YOU declare the base?
Wish I had a choice, at work. Technically I can run Linux or MacOS, but I’d need to run a Windows VM for a few things anyway.
TLoU scratched a lot of the same itches, for me.
Yeah, I’m with you. 2001 and DDR… there’s something else going on with the failure to boot. I don’t think the Pentium 3 ever supported DDR, so this is probably a Pentium 4. If truly a model released in 2001, it would be Willamette, but that required RDRAM. DDR support was introduced with Northwood in 2002. On the other hand, it could be the P4 that was new in 2004, Prescott, and the 2001 statement comes from the first year the P4 was released.