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by bwat49 7y ago
Slapping ubuntu on an OEM laptop gets you absolutely no support from the vendor. If you're OK with that, more power to you if you want to go that route. System76 does much more than just pre-install the OS. The below comment is from a
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by bwat49 7y ago
I'm not a fedora user myself, but I believe that there is a direct upgrade path (and has been for a while now).
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by bwat49 8y ago
So you meant 'Thank valve for this'? :)
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by bwat49 8y ago
I've used both, most recently the win10 app.
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by bwat49 8y ago
The Moto G series are still good phones in the <$350 range
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by bwat49 8y ago
In my experience, onenote's synchronization still has serious performance issues if you have a huge number of notes. Try moving or deleting a large number of notes and watch it just completely lock up for 20 minutes. Also, initial sync
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by bwat49 8y ago
Being an electron app isn't necessarily the reason why it's slow. I use Trilium, a different note taking electron app, and it handles a massive amount of notes with ease
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by bwat49 8y ago
It's easier for them to ship Pop!_OS with FDE, because they have their own OEM style installer for Pop!_OS that's specifically suited for this type of thing. This is one of the reasons that Pop!_OS exists. Since they offer both, I
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by bwat49 8y ago
What's missing in this analogy though is that computers need to run an Operating system. When building your own system (and running Windows), you can be pretty sure that windows will work without issues. With linux though, it's mo
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by bwat49 8y ago
Presently, no trackpad under linux will give an OSX-like experience. This is mostly a software limitation with the linux desktop IMO... e.g. web browsers like chrome and firefox lack basic features like kinetic scrolling under linux: https
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by bwat49 8y ago
This idea that they just re-label an existing laptop and call it a day really is not accurate: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5umefi/system76_refr...
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by bwat49 8y ago
It is WPF: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18004842
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by bwat49 8y ago
yep, compared to SQL management studio as well the difference is night and day.
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by bwat49 8y ago
you're correct, it's definitely just nouveau that's blacklisted, not the proprietary nvidia driver. Chromium also has hw accel enabled by default for intel drivers, which is by far the most used gpu driver on linux (and is pr
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by bwat49 8y ago
yeah on my 9360 I replaced the killer wifi with an intel 8265. The killer chip was giving me issues in both windows and linux. Otherwise it's been a great machine though
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by bwat49 8y ago
Ubuntu and it's derivatives have pretty good out of the box font rendering IMO
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by bwat49 8y ago
"Are they any better in 2019" ..Yes. Not to say they don't still have issues, but the linux gpu driver situation is vastly better than it was in 2012. AMD drivers especially has improved massively since then.
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by bwat49 8y ago
Installing linux on a Mac is your problem. Macs are notoriously a huge pain when it comes to linux compatibility. Tbh even windows isn't that great on a Mac...I'd just stick to OSX on a mac. When it came time to replace my old mac
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by bwat49 8y ago
Yeah I've got a dell xps 13 and I've never once had to fiddle with drivers
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by bwat49 8y ago
I liked the Royale theme that came with the media center edition
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by bwat49 8y ago
I think Kodi is closer to what you're looking for
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by bwat49 8y ago
pop os allows them to apply their own branding, and they also use their own installer that's more tailored towards OEM installations (which makes sense, since they're an OEM and all)
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by bwat49 8y ago
un-modified linux works fine on my xps 13 9360 I can throw basically any distro (at least anything that's fresher than debian stable) on it and all the hardware works out of the box a laptop with open firmware would certainly be nice t
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by bwat49 8y ago
They no longer have QA. Their 'QA' is the Insiders program
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by bwat49 8y ago
what version of ubuntu are you running? I've seen this behavior with the old 'gnome-screensaver' (which I think ubuntu hasn't used for quite a while), but with the current gnome-shell lock screen it behaves properly and
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by bwat49 8y ago
Yeah, IMO ~4-5 seasons or so is usually as long as a show should run (if even that) I'm currently watching 12 Monkeys on Syfy (currently on it's 4th/last season). IMO this is a great example of a show that goes on just as lon
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by bwat49 8y ago
on windows laptops with precision touchpad too
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by bwat49 8y ago
Enabling OpenGL compositing with layers.acceleration.force-enabled true should take care of the tearing. Has the potential to cause issues depending on graphics driver though
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by bwat49 8y ago
The linux version of firefox still doesn't even have opengl compositing by default, so I wouldn't hold your breath for hardware decoding any time soon. There is a bounty for the issue here: https://www.bountysource.com&
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by bwat49 8y ago
I've seen some cases where I actually do get an authentication failed error connecting to wifi, but other cases where it just gives me some generic connection failed (even when the issue turns out to be authentication). It seems quite

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