Your computer makes meth?

But…it says “august 2017-present” on the screenshot I’m looking at? Right? Also, isn’t July 2024 like, next month?

Neat! Well whatever it is, when it’s time hopefully they’ll have a board that supports it.

Sorry, my old Toshiba was on it’s last legs, it’s from like 2010. Good news is I’m hoping the Framework I just got will be the last and now I’ll just upgrade, because I can, for as long as 64gb of DDR5 will get me (only 32gb rn, but once ddr6 comes out and ddr5 gets cheaper it’ll be go time and extend the life until I need to upgrade the mainboard and by that time it’ll be ddr7/8/9!)

no way I’d be getting ass for features I don’t have

Not with that attitude

Hey I want to try out slackware real bad (for my own, religious reasons. Praise “Bob”).

So anyway I was wondering, I’ve heard it’s more difficult than your average distro, mainly in the sense that dependencies are not managed by a package manager like the dnf I’m used to, but then I’ve also heard they have tools for that now. Before I try it out I’d like to ask a few people like yourself how they manage dependencies, and if there are any other tips you’d like to share.

“Fonts” can be fixed by snagging the fonts folder from a windows install (or sometimes slsk depending who is online) and putting it in /usr/share/fonts. The rest though, yeah.

Here ya go, just play this!

(Sorry I couldn’t resist the joke lol.)

I mean, honestly I’d just be pissed I had to reinstall, there will be no loss (or minimal, just whatever I torrented in the last few days, important things get backed up immediately). Maybe 4hr tops including data transfer to the new install.

Unless you have a framework, and can remove the bezel and confirm that they work!

I’m really happy with my new framework’s switches, I actually trust them for once! I went to find a thing on how they work to post here:

"(They) saw the mention of the switches and that they are optical somewhere, but can’t remember to quote the source.

As far as I can tell each switch is a U channel with a light emitter on one side, and a detector on the other. The part you move on the bezel just breaks the light beam. This creates a electronic on/off hardware switch.

Using an actual physical switch would tend to be a source of an intermittent connection over time. Hence the use of optical technology. Same thought process for the screen open switch being a Hall Effect sensor, which can work through a cover."

Good thing I really only use VLC for videos, and Clementine for audio very rarely, and if I’m done with the music and switching to video I can just exit Clementine! I use the volume keys all the time though, since I sadly lack physical buttons.

Hell tbh I never use my pause/resume button, I just hit “p.” I <3 VLC

Wait why? Isn’t the whole point of dual booting that you still have your windows install, and you could use photoshop there?

Don’t feel bad lol I read it the same way as you!

1,2, and 3, all boil down to “Terminal.” You could have condensed those lol. And get good dude the terminal is ridiculously easy and powerful, you can become proficient enough in an afternoon for all the copy/pasting from stack overflow you may need.

4, Ooohhh you haven’t tried any distro since 2006? Dependencies are managed by your package manager for you, unless you’re using Slackware and even then I think they have stuff for that now (maybe some nice person will reply with that answer because I actually want to try slackware, but fuck managing my own dependancies.)

5, Oh you were born the same year as the last linux distro you tried? Wild.

6, and we’re back to “I’ve never even heard of Gnome or KDE but they definitely can’t do this thing they’ve been able to do for 20yr.” Bruh I mount externals from the file browser or the taskbar every day what the hell are you talking about? I’m gonna do it again in about 4hrs when I get home because all my totally not pirated media is on there.

Dude if you’re gonna complain about linux at least try it first, this list reads like something some windows fanboy told you in the XP or Vista days ffs.

Shame Adobe for their lack of support instead. There’s still shame to be had, even if it isn’t yours.

How 'bout “not spy on you?” That’s a big one for me personally.

I’m not him, but my TV is a 2007 1080p LCD Dumb TV. I’m not sure I need HDR support.

OH and I have a CRT upstairs, tiny with the VCR combo.

No u

No u