bwat49

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by bwat49 8y ago
not too difficult to find a laptop that fully works these days. But yeah, I definitely wouldn't recommend throwing linux on any random laptop and expecting everything to work.
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by bwat49 8y ago
Seems really silly to bother with a fork when you can just click the gear icon on the new tab page and un-check recommendations from pocket.
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by bwat49 8y ago
Reading the exchange, I really don't think the GIMP dev was the one that came off as entitled.
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by bwat49 8y ago
it looks like anandtech's methodology was flawed: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12678/a-timely-discovery-exam...
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by bwat49 8y ago
The user will care when gnome-shell crashes and takes out their entire session, or when their cursor is lagging/skipping. Gnome-shell wayland session still needs a lot of work imo.
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by bwat49 8y ago
I could be mistaken, but I recall seeing benchmarks that came out during the whole meltdown/spectre fiasco showed that the effects on games were pretty negligible. I thought it was mainly workloads relating to virtualization etc... tha
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by bwat49 9y ago
While I would say that throwing linux on any random laptop and expecting perfect compatibility is foolhardy, it's really not that difficult to find a linux compatible laptop these days. In general if you stay away from anything too eso
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by bwat49 9y ago
He's right though, on a modern linux desktop you can typically make through a GUI. But sure, there are edge cases where you might need to use the terminal or edit a configuration file. As an analogy, in Windows I've occasionally h
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by bwat49 9y ago
It would also have the danger of backfiring - fans being pissed off that they'd have to change their OS because valve decided to arbitrarily make it exclusive.
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by bwat49 9y ago
Wifi: Works fine on linux as long as you avoid Realtek and Broadcom. Intel and Atheros wifi works great out of the box 99% of the time Video Card support: video drivers are still a pain point for sure, but I don't think it's fair
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by bwat49 9y ago
That doesn't sound like normal behavior to me. In any gnome 3 distro I've ever used, I've only ever had to change it in the gnome control center and it works system wide. Right now I'm running solus mate and changing it
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by bwat49 9y ago
I've never had to change it in more than one place on my xps 13
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by bwat49 9y ago
> and it's not going to work if I'm copying and pasting kernel code from Stack Overflow to get my trackpad to scroll the correct direction When was the last time you used a linux desktop, 2005? On any linux desktop I can think
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by bwat49 9y ago
I use subsonic (now closed source), but there are several alternatives based on it that are open source (e.g. airsonic). On my phone I use the dsub app which is just fantastic IMO. Should work with any server that supports the subsonic api.
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by bwat49 9y ago
Yeah I can't see myself ever not having local copies of my music. Streaming services just don't cut it. E.g as a music enthusiast I'll often have specific releases/masters of albums etc... I have my music library backed
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by bwat49 9y ago
I have a kaby lake xps 13 and have never seen it fail to resume (and I suspend/resume very frequently). There is a really annoying bug between the dell bios and the intel pstate driver where it often gets stuck at a super low cpu frequ
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by bwat49 9y ago
> The only way to disable Pocket was to go into "about:config" All you had to do was remove it from the toolbar. Pocket is/was lazily loaded, it doesn't do anything if you're not using it.
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by bwat49 9y ago
You're being hyperbolic, you don't need to go into about:config. It's right in the main browser settings, under the Privacy and Security section where one would expect settings like this to be
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by bwat49 9y ago
You can disable these studies under Options | Privacy and Security
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by bwat49 9y ago
It wasn't supposed to be visible on the addons page
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by bwat49 9y ago
linux hardware support is pretty good these days and will work on most machines that don't have particularly esoteric hardware configurations. But if you want to save yourself potential trouble, it's a good idea to research before
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by bwat49 9y ago
It's bad if it was quid pro quo for helping to get trump elected...
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by bwat49 9y ago
A lot of the performance stuff such as Stylo hasn't landed on the Android version yet
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by bwat49 9y ago
"This is where server/compositor/window manager and panels/docks/desktop are all in a single process." This sounds like gnome-shell, and it's atrocious. It's unresponsive and laggy under any sort of l
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by bwat49 9y ago
> If only an extension could change userChrome.css! That would solve many people's problems. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/re-style/
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by bwat49 9y ago
afaik dwm does use triple buffering
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by bwat49 9y ago
on windows 10 I just use the netflix app
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by bwat49 9y ago
> When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query + ENTER and I'm pretty much there This works for me
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by bwat49 9y ago
When was the last time you used firefox? There's been a ton of improvements in this area in the past few years (off the main thread compositing, async pan/zoom, e10s etc...). Scrolling is now smooth even when pages are loading, or
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by bwat49 9y ago
the big problem with this is so many people these days are using phones, tablets, laptops etc... no one wants to waste battery life mining (I certainly don't)

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