bwat49

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by bwat49 5y ago
I think websites should be designed to work in all modern browsers, but IE is a deprecated/dead browser that takes extra work to support. Dropping support for IE is the right thing to do at this point.
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by bwat49 5y ago
for some reason I can never get the media creation tool to work, it always downloads the ISO and then fails to write it to the USB with some ridiculously vague error code. rufus on the other hand always works without issue
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by bwat49 5y ago
that channel is endless entertainment, I love it
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by bwat49 6y ago
and here I was about to make a joke about adding emoticons to the front of self driving cars
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by bwat49 6y ago
Yeah, I just tried logging into google play music and just got a page saying I must transfer to youtube music
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by bwat49 6y ago
maybe my memory is fuzzy, but I don't have a single fond memory of IE6. I remember it being a revelation how much better firefox was when I first switched back in the day.
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by bwat49 6y ago
Chrome is far better than IE6 ever was. Not even close to the same situation IMO.
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by bwat49 6y ago
The browser market is so much different now though. Firefox was originally competing against the pile of steaming garbage that was IE6. Now they are competing against Chrome which is actually a good browser, and Chrome also has the advantag
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by bwat49 6y ago
They were AMD CPU/GPU last time around as well
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by bwat49 6y ago
I agree with most of your points, but I actually much prefer OSX's app/icon based alt tab to windows style window/thumbnail based alt tab
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by bwat49 6y ago
depends on the laptop. macbooks are among the worst machines for running linux and require much more tinkering than normal.
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by bwat49 6y ago
I'm very happy with this program, the GUI isn't the most elegant but it does the job. I don't think I'd describe the GUI as 'bloated' though... it's actually pretty minimal. I think the screenshot on the g
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by bwat49 6y ago
> My process so far has been I keep a daily journal where I write down the most interesting things I learnt or did everyday Trilium should work great for this, you can press ctrl + alt + p to automatically create a new day note under a c
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by bwat49 6y ago
my point is that if you want to do better than 'pretty much', you should buy a machine from an OEM that actually supports linux If you're installing it on a random windows laptop, you're never going to get better than &#
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by bwat49 6y ago
> Last time I tried to debug it, this was caused due to a too old samba protocol version being used on the Windows side IIRC, the only smb version that would be considered too old is smbv1 (which I'd hope they are not using on the w
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by bwat49 6y ago
> Whenever you bring anything like this up though you'll just get a load of "When was the last time you tried it? It works perfectly for me" replies. Linux users don't want to admit its flaws. Are you implying that th
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by bwat49 6y ago
OSX can only guarantee that everything works because apple controls both the hardware and software. Windows can only guarantee that everything works because they have a monopoly and therefore hardware vendors have to support windows. Most l
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by bwat49 6y ago
Because the DIY market is reletively small. Intel still has huge sway with OEM's (and mindshare with consumers). It's difficult for AMD to overcome that even with a better product
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by bwat49 6y ago
I see this as a good thing, the chip is tuned well enough to hit its limits out of the box, without having to mess around with manual overclocking to get optimal performance.
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by bwat49 6y ago
Your information is very out of date. The old synaptics driver worked as you describe (implementing kinetic scrolling at the driver level) Libinput (which all modern distros switched to ages ago) does NOT implement kinetic scrolling at the
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by bwat49 6y ago
what do you mean? AMD integrated graphics are supported by the same open source driver... IIRC, anything that's GCN 1.2 or newer is supported (APU or dedicated)
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by bwat49 6y ago
I have a darter pro and really like it, no complaints about the build quality its the best experience I've ever had with linux on a laptop, everything just works with no fuss
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by bwat49 6y ago
pop doesn't even have snapd installed by default
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by bwat49 6y ago
Alternatively, you could just use a modern OS and no longer have to worry about whether or not programs are unsupported.
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by bwat49 7y ago
GNOME.
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by bwat49 7y ago
> if it can be substantiated Key words, I see no actual proof of OPs claim...
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by bwat49 7y ago
System76 provides driver support and testing. There's no guarantee that things will work properly 'out of the box' if you just buy a random clevo.
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by bwat49 7y ago
I don't find dash to dock necessary at all. I just hit super key and type, or use the 3 finger pinch touchpad gesture to open the overview. In any case, in my experience extensions aren't as brittle as you're implying, they g
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by bwat49 7y ago
Gnome 3 is perfectly usable IMO, I use it every day. The initial release was pretty bad, but it's gotten much better over the years.
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by bwat49 7y ago
its rendering engine hasn't been completely re-written though. They've been re-writing parts of it piece by piece.

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