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BlankSystemDaemon posted:hackintosh might be an option if you can't afford apple hardware even the most grognard turbonerd build-everything-from-source linux distros are still 100x easier to get working, less likely to break on upgrades and more likely to have working graphics and sound than a hackintosh and even if you get gpu drivers and sound working, it will break on an upgrade at some point. just get a mac mini if you want a desktop mac, hackintoshing isn't worth it
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sb hermit posted:On a stock ubuntu 20.04 system, I have to spend zero time in uninstalling start menu ads for games, streaming services, and office software.
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mawarannahr posted:im getting a little bored of using linux as my main and think i might get a better handle on organizing myself and research (pdf library especially) on a mac, which I used 2007-2012 and mostly enjoyed but couldn’t afford to keep using. things just don’t work as smoothly for managing content as opposed to files, and my iPhone isn’t well supported (not counting kde / gnome connect). so I have a few reasons that seem sensible to me. I just use a bunch of text files backed up with mercurual and I use grep to search through them. I used to use tomboy and it's not terrible but definitely not as polished as iphone apps. I switched away from it because syncing and migrating data that doesn't rely on an app to view things is better for my workflow. MacOS is more SMB/CIFS friendly now (compared to early 2010s) and pretty much deprecated appletalk so maybe you can consider using a mac mini paired with a cheap NAS with fast disks.
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mystes posted:The version number is doing some heavy lifting there do you think a fresh modern windows 10 install doesn't have any ads whatsoever?
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mystes posted:The version number is doing some heavy lifting there sshhhhmokin
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mawarannahr posted:im getting a little bored of using linux as my main and think i might get a better handle on organizing myself and research (pdf library especially) on a mac, which I used 2007-2012 and mostly enjoyed but couldn’t afford to keep using. things just don’t work as smoothly for managing content as opposed to files, and my iPhone isn’t well supported (not counting kde / gnome connect). so I have a few reasons that seem sensible to me. i have mendeley desktop installed on my main laptop running kubuntu 21.10 but i keep forgetting to add papers to it, let alone with appropriate tags and metadata, i am slightly skeptical that i will start remembering to do this if i were to switch to a mac which i considered recently too, despite using linux exclusively for the last ~18 years except for a throwaway windows installation to play older games before steam proton emulation became good enough for many things i was interested in i would enjoy things like having a desktop browser from which i can use apple pay, and unlocking the machine with my apple watch, and imessage and sms from the desktop, but i have a ton of momentum with linux and those are minor beneifts compared to how disruptive it would be, and i have a robust easy backup solution for my home laptop, home desktop, and work desktop, from which time machine would be a big step backward i still write a decent amount of analysis code that i wrap in docker images to run at scale and that would also be much more painful with switching to a mac with apple chip
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Nomnom Cookie posted:neat high five linux audio buddy, you reminded me of pulling my hair out a few years ago over something similar: Lysidas posted:i spent 5-ish minutes troubleshooting the lack of sound on my desktop machine, running kubuntu 18.04
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sb hermit posted:do you think a fresh modern windows 10 install doesn't have any ads whatsoever? Use Windows 10 LTSC, it comes without all the crap
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Kubuntu 20.04 is the closest I’ve gotten to “works and is good out of the box” in the last five years. last time before that might have been win7 or OS X lion
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I just appreciate the work of KDE e.V. Nate is writing a weekly blog around stuff they are doing on Plasma and there's usually some stuff in there that I look forward to: https://pointieststick.com/2022/01/07/this-week-in-kde-better-mtp-support/ Like: quote:Task Manager tooltips for windows that are playing audio now show a volume slider under the playback controls Yeah, that makes perfect sense to have. quote:Konsole now lets you open the current directory or any other folder you right-click on in any app, not just the file manager Hold on, you could do that?!
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Rufus Ping posted:Use Windows 10 LTSC, it comes without all the crap only if it comes free with whatever windows license my computer comes with (likely windows 10 home) otherwise, it's on someone else's dime (like my parents, and they sure as hell aren't going to pay for it) or I'll just install Linux
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS Apparently, Chrome OS used Gentoo as a base. Kinda makes sense. I guess Gentoo-derived linux distributions are far more prevalent than I had expected.
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“you know, this linux poo poo is kind of a pain, maybe I should just buy a mac” is one of the most sensible things I’ve read in yospos
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Mr. Crow posted:You literally cannot search for installed applications in the start menu without getting bing ads (also it doesn't even find your application) gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search - Do not allow web search - Don't search the web or display web results in Search
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:“you know, this linux poo poo is kind of a pain, maybe I should just buy a mac” is one of the most sensible things I’ve read in yospos don’t worry, I’ll still keep using that garbage every day remotely. but I did pull the trigger on an M1 mini, seems a worthwhile expenditure considering I’ve thought about it for year and computer are my sole source of income. thanks all also this is America, can I write this off on taxes?
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The_Franz posted:even the most grognard turbonerd build-everything-from-source linux distros are still 100x easier to get working, less likely to break on upgrades and more likely to have working graphics and sound than a hackintosh when I did hackintosh it was dead simple and just worked. then apple stopped signing nvidia drivers and now gpu support is only on par with fedora
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I stopped worrying about hackintosh because wsl works just as well for Unix software without the awfulness of desktop linux
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yeah apple murdering nvidia drivers murdered a lot of the allure of hackintoshes for me
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Lady Radia posted:yeah apple murdering nvidia drivers murdered a lot of the allure of hackintoshes for me imagine buying an amd gpu. lol
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akadajet posted:imagine buying a gpu. lol ftfy 
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The_Franz posted:even the most grognard turbonerd build-everything-from-source linux distros are still 100x easier to get working, less likely to break on upgrades and more likely to have working graphics and sound than a hackintosh also: i'm not one of those doomers who thinks apple's going to yank support for x86 macs from macos just one or two years from now, but what has already happened is that apple ain't shipping a driver for a new generation of intel cpu or chipset or amd gpu ever again that means it's going to get significantly harder to build a deece hackintosh over the next few years as supplies of the components which work best dry up (for those who have never tried hackintosh, best practice is to purchase from a narrow set of components known to work reasonably well, and all the knowledge about this and how to install poo poo is scattered across hackintosher message boards filled with petty nerds, so good luck)
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i use a amd rdna2 gpu under linux to play games under proton and it works fine for me op
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BobHoward posted:(for those who have never tried hackintosh, best practice is to purchase from a narrow set of components known to work reasonably well, and all the knowledge about this and how to install poo poo is scattered across hackintosher message boards filled with petty nerds, so good luck) this sounds too complicated to maintain as a daily driver
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akadajet posted:when I did hackintosh it was dead simple and just worked. then apple stopped signing nvidia drivers and now gpu support is only on par with fedora I've hackintoshed on and off over the years, and even if things worked well with minimal fuss at first, every update was a roll of the dice as to whether or not it would break something. All the jokes people make about linux audio are 100% true with hackintoshes and fedora has the official Nvidia drivers in a repo enabled with one click, so they are automatically updated without having to janitor anything
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akadajet posted:imagine buying an amd gpu. lol
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akadajet posted:imagine buying an amd gpu. lol got me one of them amd laptops so I can amd while I amd on my amd
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sb hermit posted:only if it comes free with whatever windows license my computer comes with (likely windows 10 home) home licences dont work for ltsc but you can just use kms38 or whatever  e-z
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Rufus Ping posted:home licences dont work for ltsc but you can just use kms38 or whatever guess I'll stick to ads or switch to linux
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sb hermit posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS I'm ok with chrome os discussion being cordoned off to the lame rear end gentoo thread Pythagoras a trois fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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mawarannahr posted:im getting a little bored of using linux as my main and think i might get a better handle on organizing myself and research (pdf library especially) on a mac, which I used 2007-2012 and mostly enjoyed but couldn’t afford to keep using. things just don’t work as smoothly for managing content as opposed to files, and my iPhone isn’t well supported (not counting kde / gnome connect). so I have a few reasons that seem sensible to me. sb hermit posted:I just use a bunch of text files backed up with mercurual and I use grep to search through them. you probably want to look at self-hosted cross-platform apps for note and content management, rather than linux desktop stuff, even if you're only going to use that app from your linux pc because it's 2021 so people actually want to check their notes and treasure maps and poo poo from their phones, so that's where the developers put effort in check out standard notes, bookstack, joplin, tiddlywiki, turtl. one of them is gonna be needs-suiting i use joplin personally, the ui is meh but it integrates well with pretty much everything
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while we're at it [GIT PULL] Btrfs updates for 5.17 some send work, some perf improvements, more zoned support, bugfixes RokosCockatrice posted:I'm ok with chrome os discussion being cordoned off to the lame rear end gentoo thread where's this lame rear end gentoo thread
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https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/good_posting 404 
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i appreciate someone around who i can drop incredibly obvious bait in front of like "btrfs eats data lol nom nom nom" and rely on them picking it up does raid 5 work yet btw
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Nomnom Cookie posted:i appreciate someone around who i can drop incredibly obvious bait in front of like "btrfs eats data lol nom nom nom" and rely on them picking it up write into my raid hole daddy
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