I’m trying out Arch on my laptop atm, and tbh the only real advantage (at least for me) is that the packages tend to be a lot fresher than on Debian-based distros. The question is how many of your packages you really need to be that fresh.
I think a lot of Arch users feel like wizards because they connected to the home wifi using the command line, but if you’ve tinkered with (/broken then had to fix lol) other distros, you will have done all this stuff before
Yes I agree 100%. There’s no other way to do it.
For ‘pro-business’ read ‘swingeing privatisation’ but yeah the whole thing is a mess, and I’m not sure it’s possible to have ‘free and fair’ (whatever that means) elections under such conditions.
Wrt reasons to doubt the result, electronic vote counting/voting machines are reason enough imho — but that throws a load of other democracies into question 🤷
Not saying that nothing fishy has gone down, but that ‘exit poll’ was conducted by the opposition, and that margin seems ridiculous considering the crowds that Maduro has been drawing
Yeah I remember very clearly — they introduced advertising and the whole thing went immediately to shit 🤷
Gonna add my voice to those calling for a foss stumbleupon
Yes, but what if you need to download additional drivers for your wireless card
I’d vote for a candidate who only communicates via ouija board over Trump.
Give it a few months
It’s not rocket science. You might need a wired connection to begin with though
Ok, no worries. I’m not sure how I can explain to you what I meant tbh. The context is that Apple hardware that recent is unlikely to have fully Linux support yet, simply that. It is a relative claim, but you seem to have parsed it as an absolute?
Dude, there are so many contexts in which 2016 could be considered ‘recent’, including the one I was speaking in, and yet you march into my mentions with the patronizing bullshit. I don’t know, maybe you think you’re being friendly, but it doesn’t feel friendly to me.
8 years is recent if it’s apple hardware and you’re expecting Linux to work flawlessly out of the box. Maybe things were different back in your day though
Ok, fair cop, I’m misremembering things — I had issues with a realtek card recently though. The point is that, as good as first party support is these days, you can’t just buy anything and expect it to work, especially if it came out in the last couple of years.
I do check in on it every now and again, and it is impressive! I reckon they’ll be able to offer a seamless transition once Apple stops servicing M1 Macs, which is really good going. But, depending on your use case, making the leap now would mean sacrificing some functionality
But plenty doesn’t e.g. Broadcom wifi cards. If you just buy whatever new hardware and expect Linux to work out of the box, you’re likely to have problems ime.
There are always options of course, but you have to shop wisely!
Learn to read.
On the contrary, it’s often new hardware that causes the problems because the drivers won’t have been reverse-engineered yet
It depends. I installed mint on a 2011 MBP a couple of years ago and it was a breeze. I installed arch on it recently and the only snag was having to install the proprietary Broadcom driver to get wireless. It runs great though — which is just as well because it would actually be more difficult to install OSX on the bloody thing, seeing as they no longer support it.
A 2016 MBP is still a bit recent, but, as a general rule of thumb, by the time a Mac stops getting software updates, Linux will be ready for it.
Your criticisms are literally general ones. You’ve only gone into specifics to describe the configuration of your favorites bar in detail for some reason. I’ve been saying throughout this conversation that it’s a question of use case — that making general statements about ‘usability’ overlook a whole host of users; the visually impaired being one example that comes immediately to mind. The point is that there should be options, and people shouldn’t be put off from trying different things until they find what works for them, because for everyone who needs a GUI-only approach, there is someone else who would benefit from a bit of CLI in their workflow but has been told it’s beyond them when it really isn’t.
The thing is, it’s fun