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  • Don’t get mint if you’ll get a remotely capable laptop or plan to game on it. Its so called ‘modern’ desktop environment (wich still defaults to the old X window system) feels awful to use imo and while the ‘retro’ ones are better there’s no point in using them on a new laptop. Choose a distro that ships with KDE, GNOME, or a wlroots based desktop environment.

    I’ve also had driver issues with it that didn’t happen with Ubuntu or arch.

    Pretty much every distro has a caveman compatible installer.



  • It always puzzles me why they chose the one distro without systemd to base this on and are now trying to add it themselves.

    Also I have thoughts about this:

    Move sudo to community
    At present, sudo is in the main repository, which requires us to provide security support for 2 years. Upstream sudo does not provide an “LTS” lifecycle, so this requires either performing security upgrades during the maintenance lifecycle, or backporting security fixes by hand.
    Benefit to Alpine
    Prior to the creation of the security team, there was an unofficial preference to push doas as the preferred pivot tool for Alpine. This reinforces that messaging. Additionally, we do not have to support sudo for a 2 year lifecycle, since there are no LTS branches for it.

    How often does sudo have security vulnerabilities that it’s worth moving to a lesser used tool whose vulnerabilities are less likely to be discovered against your security team’s wishes? What do all the other distros do?





  • *HX - mobile workstation
    *H / *HS - laptop
    *U / *P - ultrabook

    Ryzen AI - current gen amd
    Ryzen 7x4x / Ryzen 8x4x - last gen amd
    Ryzen 6xxx / Ryzen 7x3x - prev gen amd
    Core Ultra 1xx / Core 14xxx - current gen intel
    Core 1xxx / Core 13xxx - last gen intel
    Core 12xxx - prev gen intel

    Generation is the most important factor for single thread performance, then power usage and lastly sku.
    You could go for an *HX or *H model from a recent gen for an upgrade or if you’re fine with the performance you had you could also get a *U model as those are cheaper, more silent and use less power. It’s actually surprising that your laptop wasn’t that loud

    Also the next intel generation is soon to come with big improvements I think, but it’ll probably take time for it to be sold