Arch Linux on Dell 7389 : just works. Also had OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on this machine, best installer ever.

Debian on Thinkpad X390 Yoga : with included variable-pressure pen, the touchscreen is actually a wacom tablet, perfect. Also, one if the best installer there is.

Ubuntu on Thinkpad T480s : just works. Installing Ubuntu today is literally just a couple of clicks. Wife hasn’t complained in 3 years, this distro must be doing it right.

(Everything Gnome here, no additional setup whatsoever. The KDE gang will argue that Plasma has a lot of goodies for touchscreens, be sure to check it out)

There’s a French speaking /r/ over there that bans an @jlai.lu user and remove their post when they link to Lemmy.

Currently in France No OS is -€60 and with Fedora or Ubuntu it’s -€30

Don’t ask. Different markets, pricing irrelevant to actual costs

Hm. I use it for anything, looping stuff, streams, entire album play, playlists, even audio books before I found maBooks

My only current bug is that I used to have my music on an SD card, which failed & I removed, but VLC still thinks it’s right there and fills my library with it

VLC is the goat here, no?

Would GrapheneOS have protections against this ?

It’s a memorial.

It is important to remember it, to engrave it in stone, for future generations not to forget, before it disappears for ever.

In all the conversation, the one thing I didn’t read about was how good it is to have a laid-back, “nonthreatening” logo. People talk about history, brand, happenstance whatever but not on the positive aspects of having a cartoonish emblem that doesn’t scream “I’m serious” or “I’m valid”.

You are right and I am wrong ; I guess I jumped too fast after the gulf of america thing.

I believe this statement is a protest about apple following the current trend of oligarchy brown-nosing the musk/trump administration and reversing all inclusive and diversity programmes, supports and policies.

Edit: seems to be more about harassment

It’s cute to see the massive amount of “take care of yourself! Your health is more important than work!” on Mastodon, but I feel it is completely beside the point.

I bought my m mac because of the Asahi project ; I wouldn’t buy it today because of apple current stance gulf of what exactly?

Lubuntu ?

We just installed one as a media player for a show and this popped up when sitting unused

Welcome to the club 🤗

In my case, The rollback feature bricked its onw disk because on a 30g system partition, an install with a separate home partition (not included in the backups) will drown itself in factory settings backups.

It’s a great feature. Give it ample space and trim down on the all the snapshots afterwards.

I have a debian 12 with Unattended Upgrades as a work machine, and it works surprisingly well (I use Arch BTW) - it is probably the simplest way for you to be sure their browser stays up-to-date & keep them safe on this side

Issue with these updates is they happen “behind” and may need a reboot ; this is the only moment I found Debian to misbehave, decide to reboot & I get it when I see the machine updating some component before rebooting again

So this is the full extend of the training to give: in case of doubt, reboot.

I think gnome is perfect in that context also, the lack of Menu is just one hit on the Meta key away, which, if you trim down the install to their exact need will be accessible, confortable.

There’s this brand of organic yogurt at my local shop that says “probably best before xx/xx/xxxx, but after that just lift the lid and have a sniff”

I think I remember 6 weeks as being absolutely fine once, and 3 weeks didn’t some other time.

I’m still getting paid by check.

France, public administration.

I moan absolutely every time, and then hold on to it as much as I can to fuck up their accounting because unclaimed checks whacks their balances. When they phone to complain I call them palaeolithic morons & ask them to fucking wire the money already. I think my record is three months (I don’t work exclusively for them). Nice people and fun job otherwise but gosh, why the checks, seriously.

Welcome to… being a normal Linux user

Switching distro is something every user does, thinks about doing, then does it again.

It’s normal. You just discovered a new way of using your computer, and opened a ton of possibilities in front of you, from customising your current install to the death thanks to the choice in desktops and display managers to just slap an entirely different distribution on your machine. A ton of possibles.

Try them out! There’s Live USB for about every one out there, but my favorite way is to dual-boot and see fully how the install process turns out, how the software management works, how updates occurs etc.

You’ll notice a lot is the same, a lot is different, and most any feature from a distro can be slapped on another!

To give you a taste, try openSUSE Tumbleweed - not because I think you should switch to Tumbleweed over Ubuntu, but because it’s quite different in a few key points, and I believe it is interesting for you: there’s this Rollback backup feature, a beautiful and quite simple installer, a polished user interface, a different software format, and a powerful admin tool.

Have fun with your hardware. Now backup your files and go crazy! So many out there!

(I started with Ubuntu)

Steve Reich’ “New York counterpoint”

I have an app that blocks scam/spam so irl I answer 100% but technically I only pickup 50%

Game: Gunship 2000

Book: the Murderbot Diaries

TV: Firefly

Movie: Casablanca no! Little Shop of Horrors!

Must have been Lee Scratch Perry. Not a song, a handful of tapes played over and over and.

But I run a summer festival on linux!

• Tech drawings on QCad
• Lights & previz on MagicQ
• Emails etc on firefox

Our media servers are W7 (!) but I access them with VNC. And lots of screens/beamers here are on PI computers.

…then of course we need a windows laptop for the wireless mics, for the FoH configuration, the videowall, stuff like that. Mails and docs are google anyway, remote access is teamviewer.

I can’t run it all on linux, even if I sit at a linux computer the most.