if there’s something that I can adopt as a default goto solution without having to worry about how each system is packaged/configured.

Go is probably your best bet. Simple to use, and you can compile it so it runs everywhere

More like

20 years ago - perl

10 years ago - python

Nowadays - go

Lucky guy, I ordered it to Germany and they wouldn’t let me use the non-eu warehouse (so they can get rid of their overpriced stock I’m guessing)

Stopwatch - can’t be minimised, can’t see the time while it’s open, restarts when you get a notification (the fixes have been sitting in the PRs for years)

Notifications - don’t get cleared when you clear them on the phone, clearing them on the watch doesn’t close the notifications screen, answering your phone through the watch doesn’t dismiss the call notification

Heart rate monitor - essentially useless since it can’t take periodic measurements, doesn’t work great unless you’re wearing the watch on the inside of your hand, but at least they’ve managed to finally read the sensor docs and program it correctly

Step syncing is a massive pain in the ass and often requires you to “manually” sync them by walking around while keeping both devices active

Battery barely lasts longer than a week even with infrequent wearing (and that’s a massive improvement over the previous 3-4 days max)

Lift to wake up usually acts more like shake to wake

The UI is pretty bad overall

There are like 2 half decent watch faces

Horrific weight distribution and the shitty strap make it feel 10x heavier. Like, my automatic is almost 2x its weight and I barely feel it, while this crap is constantly reminding me it’s there.

The CPP OS doesn’t let you chose what apps to activate nor does it have any way to load your code aside from compiling everything

Updates are only mostly headache free if you use specific PC software. Keyword is mostly, I’ve had some updates take a bunch of attempts to install.

That’s just from the top of my head

I call bs or it was before they started shipping from EU. You literally couldn’t order to Europe or EU countries from the other warehouse while they were stocking it.

It’s got a lot more issues than that. It’s utter trash unless you like want to practice CPP.

It’s complete crap, on the level of not being able to run the stopwatch in the background and having it restart if you get a notification.

Also, it’s 65EUR if you want to order it in Europe

Idk what’s up with your fingerprint rant, but the drivers for that have been out for years. Not official ofc, but it works better than in windows.

The issue is that it’s essentially useless because Linux has no support for any type of fingerprint reader, so you can maybe set up your DM to log you in.

Xkill doesn’t kill the process, it just stops showing it to you

Sure, and not every arch user ends their comments with btw.

But that was consistent across multiple years, devices, and derivatives. It’s usually a 5 min fix/workaround, but it’s still annoying.

Inb4 it becomes/is a subsidiary of the NSO group…

Nobody’s raving about the install, that’s just useful for people who don’t know what makes a Linux distro.

It becomes your personality after a few years because every update might break anything, and you need to regularly maintain random shit. Also if you forget to update regularly, the chance of everything crapping out rises exponentially.

I hope you’re using something like btrfs, because rollbacks are a must.

Does your company have a serious IT department that manage devices?

If yes, then you’ll need to do whatever they say, and be ready to be told that’s not happening.

If not, I’d suggest a stable distro, encrypt the disk, and use flatpak/nix to install fresh packages. Fedora could work, but I’ve had bad luck with it, and wouldn’t want to risk my device crapping out because of an update.

The rest is really going to depend on your work and your it department.

Zerowriter Ink should get up to a week of battery life

ESP strikes again…

If you’re a developer and you don’t know how to deploy to Linux servers you’re useless.

Welp, found your red flag

That really depends on what you’re doing. It’s only really useful when you’re regularly SSH-ing into other machines for work. Otherwise you’re wasting time every day so that you might save a second once every few years.

Export to latex (and to pdf)?

Org-mode mostly does this already. Just needs a shortcut to surround the marked area with the correct symbols.

Thanks, had a network error and jerboa said it failed to comment

“even though there is evidence that Chromium is even less secure)”

That’s not how double negatives work. The alternative would be:

Even though there’s no evidence that chromium is more secure.

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Not really:

• RHEL is paid if you need more devices than the free license provides

• SEL and Ubuntu Pro don’t have any free licenses as far as I remember

• you can mostly use windows without paying anything