buckykat [none/use name]

I haven’t run an OS off a spinning disk for over a decade but I still remember how big the leap in general usability was when switching to SSD

When Linux doesn’t do what I want, it’s never because it was deliberately designed not to do what I want in order to increase shareholder value

flash drive is probably formatted FAT32 and that file is too big for that format. reformat the flash drive to exfat.

Tiling is handy for lots of things, especially combined with workspaces. People just like showing off terminals in their flex screenshots

My personal negative vibe toward Manjaro comes from my own experience with updates breaking things when I was running it

I run PopOS on my IdeaPad Flex, which is one of those flip all the way around type laptop tablet hybrids, and it handles tablet stuff pretty well with the touchscreen, on screen keyboard, and stylus input.

Simply put the desktop in the room you wish to game in

Desktop replacement gaming laptops are a mistake. You can buy a normal laptop and the parts to build a gaming desktop for the same price and the laptop will be much more practical to carry around while the desktop will perform better and last longer.

I remembered having this problem and found the page that helped me: https://superuser.com/questions/1151161/enable-touch-scrolling-in-firefox

The battery life is not great but not terrible, it could do six hours on light use and low brightness after several years of normal battery degradation, and I would expect the equivalent model with a newer processor to last longer. The stylus support is proprietary, you need the Lenovo brand stylus, but it works as you’d expect with pressure sensitivity and all. I primarily use it for note taking in Xournal++.

I use a Lenovo IdeaPad FLEX 14API with PopOS on it, it’s a flip over style covertible with stylus support and it’s working pretty well for me. The specific model I have is a few years old now, but there are certainly modern equivalents. The only hardware on it that doesn’t work out of the box with Linux is the fingerprint reader, but I don’t use that anyway.

The good future includes the total and final death of Trusted Computing, which means the end of capitalism.

I use Xournal++ it’s not perfect but it does what I need it to as a stylus note app.

The situation with Windows and DOS is as if ChromeOS took over so decisively that Linux became nothing more than a historical curiosity.

No it’s worse. Tying the OS and GUI together to the extent they are in modern post-95 Windows is a major cause of the learned helplessness OP is talking about

Specifically from the introduction of Windows 95 tying Windows and MS-DOS together. While Windows was an application running on DOS Microsoft tried various schemes to break compatibility when it was run on other competing DOSes, and Windows 95 was the final stroke of that strategy by tying the GUI inextricably into the OS.

All a consequence of Microsoft monopolistically tying windows to the OS to push out other competing DOSes

literally everything was shittier in olden times

1 horsepower is supposed to be the rate a shitty old timey horse can work over the course of a whole day. Also it was created as a way to market steam engines to replace horses as a source of mechanical power so there was an incentive to lowball the horse.

I haven’t participated on Reddit since leaving for Lemmy, and I’ve barely participated on blahaj since leaving for hexbear