llothar

llothar, 6 months ago

One year ago I treated how long it takes to get Gimp to install on various distros in distrobox:

Results:

<span style="color:#323232;">zypper@Tumbleweed: 3 minutes, 22 seconds
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt@Ubuntu 22.04: 1 minute 26 seconds
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">dnf@Fedora: 1 minute 2 seconds
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">pacman@arch: 0 minutes 21 seconds
</span>

But that’s just installation speed. It simply shows that there are quite big differences depending on use case.

llothar, 6 months ago

Consider OpenSuse Aeon if you want to dip into immutable systems.

llothar, 6 months ago

They are very difficult to break. Even if there is a problematic update that would normalny kill your install you can just roll back too the previous working version.

Great for systems that you need to ‘simply work’.

llothar, 6 months ago

I’ll parrot the others. I have a Windows PC issued by my employer. The only way to have some Linux is WSL. I use it to sync notes with server at home, python stuff, and w3m when I want to Google something without looking conspicuous in the office.

General Linux tools also help. I needed to make video half the speed - one liner ffmpeg solves it in a jiffy. On Windows I need to install some hive software.

llothar, 6 months ago

Loaded fine here

llothar, 6 months ago

PopOS on gaming PC Fedora Silverblue on daily PC Ubuntu Server LTS for small servers Ubuntu Desktop LTS for digital signage

llothar, 6 months ago

If the goal is to have the most up to date bleeding edge software, but have it on a critical machine, consider immutable distro like Fedora Silverblue or OpenSuse Aeon. Especially the latter will be just days behind Arch, and if an update breaks something you just roll back and try updating again in a week.

I used Silverblue as my main work system and this saved me a few times.

llothar, 7 months ago

If you have a choice - use Onshape. Fully featured CAD system, on par with SolidWorks and such, works perfectly on Linux out of the box.

llothar, 7 months ago

There is a free tier with limitation that your designs are open for others to see. Not ideal, but perfectly fine for tinkering.

llothar, 7 months ago

This works both ways. In sure if you scooped Malmö out of Sweden it would pop up even higher. ;)

No metric is perfect.

llothar, 7 months ago

I ordered one. First units should be shipped early December. Right now they seem to be some out - just few days ago you could order with 7-8 weeks delivery, now it’s just ‘notify when available’.

llothar, 7 months ago

Wanted to buy framework laptop for the longest time, but they dont ship to Norway :(

llothar, 7 months ago

Bank ordered us a stupid high amount to loan. We thought it was stupid high and used just half of it. In do happy er did so.

llothar, 7 months ago

Yes, finally something better than 1080p!

llothar, 7 months ago

Per latest updates people should start getting their hands on first units early December. I have pre-ordered mine almost 3 months ago now and can’t wait!

llothar, 7 months ago

No pen. I used to have one with Surface Pro but in the end I never used it.

Plus if I decide I really need it the StarLite uses this open standard meaning you can use whichever pen later.

llothar, 7 months ago

The problem with older machines is the web browsing, not the system itself. You could use a browser with Java script disabled but a lot of websites will refuse to work.

You have to sacrifice with browser functionality to improve performance.

llothar, 7 months ago

I think the biggest benefit is for people that cannot code or are just learning. Before a python script to do X or Y was a real problem. Now it is easy.

Plus it may help with Linux adoption - LLM can describe few commands in terminal plus some text config easily, but will struggle with Windows-like graphical configuration.