Year of Linux on Desktop
More of a meme than anything else
Better than Windows
Well yeah, it is in almost every way.
Linux is easy
It’s not particularly hard.
You never need to use the terminal
Yeah, that’s just a lie.
Everything you need runs
Depends what you need
Android IS Linux
Well, it is.
Pinebook Pro?
For example, Pinetab 2 was developed and tested with Wayland and is more stable on it. Plus way better touchscreen support.
It’s great on newer hardware, specially phones and tablets. For your 5 year old laptop, it likely is about the same as X11.
Sway is essentially i3 + Wayland, so it shouldn’t be a hard switch once X11 goes EOL.
Having run PostmarketOS on an old Samsung Galaxy tablet and now Arch on PineTab 2, Flatpak often works better than the native package manager. Especially with Wayland, many packages just work including touchscreen.
Having the device, I already tether the wifi. But it is indeed a compatibility issue: the old kernel drivers for the chip were janky and it’s doubtful how well they even worked the time. The code is apparently such a hot mess that the people who were working on it have stopped making progress. There is now skepticism that it will ever be fully functional.
Please get this bad boy working well on rolling release, then:
Windows: You want to flash a drive with linux? ERROR! ERROR! Filesystem corrupted! I just saved you from like 1000 viruses!
Yes, you can install Chocolatey without using a browser.
Nope, they’re two different distros. The reason that Raspberry Pi OS was renamed is that the 64 bit version does not use code from the Rasbian project.
Off the top of my head:
Every distro decides what features to introduce and when. Distros and DEs are making the choice when to implement new standards like Wayland and Pipewire, GNOME shifts its features over time and in the latest release is redesigning how its window management workflow is going to work. When you choose a distro and DE, you’re choosing to trust them with these decisions. That doesn’t mean users are “forced.” Users can and will vote with their feet.
Ubuntu introduced snaps in 16.04, and has been gradually increasing their presence since then. Users have had 7 years to decide they don’t like them and change distros.
Not sure how they are forcing their users to use snaps any more than debian is forcing their users to use apt. It’s a package manager the distro is consciously supporting. If you don’t like snaps then you should probably just stop using Ubuntu.
Yes, I agreeing that symlinking sunsetted apt packages to install the snap version without prior notification is a bit underhanded: I can see they want to make the switch easy for casual users, but the transparency isn’t there for advanced users. I still think it’s a fine distro for newer and casual users.
I’ve taken to yelling “sudo” whenever Windows doesn’t let me do something. My wife insists it’s not helpful, but I gots to try.