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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
Ubuntu has unfortunately become the Windows of the Linux world - and I don't mean that in a good way. Unless you want to be the perpetual IT support for your parents, I would recommend getting a user-friendly immutable/atomic dist
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
Windows keeps becoming more and more worse and bloated every month. This month's update bumped up the install.wim by 400MB! And last month's update added a similar amount of bulk. It's insane how much junk Microsoft keeps add
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
What irks me most about Framework is their refusal to ship worldwide, or at least allow retailers to resell them. They even go to the extent of cancelling orders which use addresses of known parcel forwarders[1], or if they detect a payment
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
I disagree, because making phone calls is the most basic and core functionality of a phone, it's not just some random feature that you can simply dismiss, especially with many counties worldwide shutting down 3G networks - VoLTE is a n
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
It's more of an issue for carriers who don't sell Pixel devices, particularly in countries where the Pixel isn't sold officially (eg: New Zealand). So generally VoLTE, VoWiFi and sometimes even 5G too might not work. You can
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
I use a Samsung Fold because I read a lot of books/manga, and I also love its multitasking features over stock Android/Pixel. Finally I also prefer it's form-factor (roughly 3:4 unfolded screen, and a narrow front screen) ove
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
The bigger issue for business users is the lack of support from Microsoft (and by extension, other thirdparty vendors), so if something breaks you're on your own. One of our clients purchased ESU licenses from MS so they can continue u
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
They said "major OEM" so I don't think it's them. Unlikely to be Samsung either. Maybe Xiaomi or Lenovo (Motorola)?
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
This is excellent news. I've always wanted to try GrapheneOS, but I dislike Google and dislike Pixels even more (Tensor sucks + there's the whole VoLTE/5G issue), so I never got a chance to try it out. Hopefully they select a
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
There's also Master PDF, and it's also available for Linux: https://code-industry.net/masterpdfeditor/
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
> Steam is available for both Linux and macOS. Are there just not as many game titles? A vast majority of the games work fine under Linux now, in fact most release these days woke even on day one of release. The only games that don&#x2
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
I have an M1 Air too and adb works fine for me. I used homebrew to install it ("brew install android-platform-tools").
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
In addition to Photon, I would say QNX itself (the desktop OS). I ran QNX 6 Neutrino on my PIII 450 back in the day, and the experience was so much more better than every other mainstream OS on the market. The thing that blew me away was ho
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
I re-read my comment chain and I don't see where I've acted in a conflicting way? I started by asking tstrimple which distros they've tried, and stated that some distros are better suited for handling cutting edge hardware, a
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
> often the first few months are fine until you hit a wall or need to upgrade it. This is a common theme with Ubuntu and every Ubuntu-based distro - they all eventually break when doing updates. Eg: https://ounapuu.ee/p
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
Yes and do you really expect a non-tech-savvy newbie to suddenly download and switch to Linux? That's never gonna happen, unless they're the really curious and determined type, the kind who loves to tinker/break/fix. The
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
So is KDE's Plasma Mobile: https://plasma-mobile.org/
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
It was probably me I think (I was commenting on how I'd rather install imagemagick in Termux than search for a bloated Android app that can shrink and convert images). Regarding your second point though, GPU acceleration in Termux&#x2F
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
They don't need to "work" on Wayland support at all, all that work is being done by the FreeRDP project. Also, sdl3-freerdp is the new Wayland client for FreeRDP is already available, and it works fine. You can just edit the
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
The docker container hosts QEMU and the docker files to run Windows. The author probably chose this method because the dockur/windows project basically automates and simplifies the whole process of installing and configuring QEMU, and
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
Yes there are some elitist users but what I've stated has nothing to do with elitism, it's just the way things are. Do your research and you can see for yourself how bad Ubuntu is. And you do have a point about niche distros as we
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
For what you're describing, there are already Enterprise-grade solutions that's even simpler and more robust, such as Azure Virtual Desktop with RemoteApps, and the even more mature and battle-tested Citrix XenApps / Cloud. L
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
This is exactly what the Looking Glass project is working on, their next release is expected to include their Indirect Display Driver that pretty much solves all the graphics limitations of RDP, see: https://www.youtube.com/
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
Sort of, but nowhere as polished. For graphics intensive apps, you can get GPU passthrough working with some effort[1] but it's not really end-user friendly. Also, I wouldn't say it's an alternative to Proton, in fact it&#x27
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
Basically yes, although WinApps uses a VM directly (and requires you to set it up first), whereas this project uses the dockur/windows container which automates the whole setup, making it easier for newbies. Technical users are probabl
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
It is a VM running Windows, specifically it's a QEMU VM in a Docker container and KVM backend. See: https://github.com/dockur/windows
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
By default, yes, but they can all be supported, with some manual work, depending on your exact scenario. Check r/vfio if you're interested. Anti-cheat can be a hit-or-miss depending on the game, but for many games you can edit the
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
... which is?
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
It's just a VM running full Windows. It doesn't provide any win32 APIs or ways to interact with them, besides creating shortcuts to apps inside Windows using RDP/FreeRDP's RemoteApp functionality.
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by d3Xt3r 1y ago
Yes, you can't get more than 60FPS, it's a limitation of the RDP protocol.

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