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by trelane 1y ago
Oh. I thought you were replying to a sibling comment, sorry. Sibling: > there is a nuanced situation with some Realtek (RTL8671B) bluetooth firmware on Linux that is 'solved' by downgrading firmware version
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by trelane 1y ago
This happens so much in the opposite direction. Folks seem to not understand that Microsoft is an ad company.
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by trelane 1y ago
I've heard good things about Pop!OS working well out of the box on Windows hardware.
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by trelane 1y ago
> Problems with sleep/suspend modes is a relatively common in Linux. It is if you slap Linux on your Windows computer and expect it to work. Dell etc have teams whose entire job is ensuring Windows works well on their hardware. Thes
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Their point was that the dongle's proprietary firmware was buggy. The controllers just triggered the problem.
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by trelane 1y ago
> the vendors of that hardware range from indifferent to actively hostile to Linux Not all. System76, Framework, and others come to mind. But yes, for the most part, hardware is designed for Windows and only works on Linux despite the ve
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by trelane 1y ago
I don't think Linux users would pay for it. It would pretty much be a loss (support isna form of insurance--you have a pool of covered users, and they need not in aggregate cost more than the company takes in). And System76 needs to al
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by trelane 1y ago
The Lemur Pro gets up to 14: https://system76.com/laptops/lemp13/configure
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by trelane 1y ago
What all does your Linux support entail? Do you offer support for both Linux abd Windows models? Is the firmware identical for the models that ship with Windows and those that ship with Linux? How well does Linux work out of the box? What k
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by trelane 1y ago
It does not. I guess my devices aren't exotic enough. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Razer_peripherals I think things like extra buttons work fine. But if it gets too far out there, you have to get something tha
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by trelane 1y ago
I am surprised folks are still installing software for their mouse. Guess I have just used Linux too long and expected mice to just work.
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Adding MCP(funcall.blogspot.com)
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by trelane 1y ago
This illustrates why Linux users should buy Linux hardware, not just slap Linux on Windows hardware.
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by trelane 1y ago
I wonder if Netbooks would have gone to ARM eventually, had Microsoft not killed them.
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by trelane 1y ago
"Apple silicon?" Man, how well does OSX run on a raspberry pi? Clearly it's the inferior OS. /s
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by trelane 1y ago
> TechCrunch has found Interesting that they've gone from reporting about flaws others found to hunting and hacking themselves.
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by trelane 1y ago
Wonder how this compares to a Thelio's performance.
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Building a New Package from Scratch – Cursor Heatmap Pt1(emacs.dyerdwelling.family)
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by trelane 1y ago
Why? There is a perfectly cromulent license, sitting right there https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html It was even explicitly designed to prevent "tivoization." https://www.gnu.org/ph
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by trelane 1y ago
> the outside we have no way of knowing who is telling the truth. Yes, exactly. His life was upended because he was assumed guilty until proven innocent. Even here in the threads.
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by trelane 1y ago
"Do the job" depends a lot on what the facts are. Unfortunately, unless you were actually there, you can't know perfectly. It's a matrix: a perfect system would always punish the guilty and refuse to punish the innocent.
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by trelane 1y ago
> you're making a TiVo style product you want to harden against the device owners. This sentence just makes me so sad
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by trelane 1y ago
It's not "just a Clevo wrapper." Clevo is their ODM. They work with Clevo to put together a laptop, and Clevo gets the right to sell a Windows variant. Their version differs, particularly in firmware but also possibly in chip
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by trelane 1y ago
> I have to have an Apple locked down device, which I hate, just because I want proper battery life. Chicken and egg. The Linux vendors don't have the power to drive ODMs nearly as much as Apple because everyone keeps buying Windows
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by trelane 1y ago
This os why I only buy laptops that ship with Linux, with support you can call to get broken things fixed. Slapping Linux on a Windows box is a mug's game
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by trelane 1y ago
To me, it's System76. Clearly Framework is not supporting Linux if there are issues with suspend.
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by trelane 1y ago
Most serious users can use things other than Microsoft just fine. The problem is file compatibility. Unfortunately, network effects are very much a thing. Plus most users just don't realize they don't actually have to keep shove
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by trelane 1y ago
You're right for home users. In businesses, the hill is also that some users are power users that have locked themselves in, in slightly different ways between the different power users. Also the company has also locked itself in by dr
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by trelane 1y ago
That's the joke, yes. Though it's MPL, not GPL: https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses
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by trelane 1y ago
If LibreOffice were smart, they'd introduce free licensing for schools and universities, so the students could learn it and then ask for it when they get to jobs later on. Maybe they could even release the source under a copyleft licen

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