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Im running Ubuntu on a Surface Pro 5 (i5 7300u, 8GB) with the linux-surface-kernel.

Generally, things pretty much worked out of the box, the only tinkering I had to do was to optimize battery life / cpu power usage when not plugged in. Theres packages that will limit your CPU frequency depending on the status of your battery. I dont remember the exact name, but it was pretty much the first hit I googled “linux limit cpu power” or something like that. Without that, the battery life wasnt great, especially when watching YouTube, but with some tweaking and the proper h264/h265 drivers, my surface achieves some 3-4 hours of video playback right now.

Other than that it’s smooth sailing all the way.

Just go the last step and call it Jesus OS

Even if Fedora has a spin with the same DE, from my experience, Mint/Ubuntu still has a higher chance just work on a given system.

I love Fedora and use it pretty much exclusively, but the out of the box experience of Mint and Ubuntu is still a bit better for the average user imho.

Something marketing and having your service not appear dysfunctional or buggy to the stupid, stupid enduser

I mean, FF is the default browser and this also might rub some people the wrong way - having the developer of the only relevant free and open, non-google browser bow to a dictatorship

Queue the “I’m still worthy” thor meme

I run Ubuntu with Gnome on my linuxed Surface. Ubuntu because I wanted something that works and since I mostly browse the web with it. I personally prefer Gnome for touch interfaces because a lot of it works intuitively with a touch screen.

Note that there’s the surface-linux kernel, with the default kernel, some things might not work out of the box.

I use it to browse products and content that I dont want in my ad profiles. Like, sometimes I’d like to take a look at what my resident right wing nut case posted, but without having the ad brokers think that I need an AR15 and a Trump bible.

It might just be local network traffic or a dev env. Not to mention that https is just unnecessary overhead for some usecases, especially when only GETting data.

You also have to consider that roots homedir is in /root and not home, so if you’d just assume it’s /home/$USER you’d get in trouble when your programm is run or compiled as root.

Right in the linuxy

Counterpoint: be consequential and go from most generic to most specific with year-month-day.

If something is obviously in the current year, just leave the year part.

Shipping!

Interested in Linux? Getting a degree in Cyber Security?

A used ThinkPad. The older the better

You have never worked in gastronomy, have you?

Dont forget that Spotify abuses its market position by basically milking smaller artists dry.

Does anybody know of a good alternative that doesnt involve either storing hundreds of albums on CD or piracy?

Counter point: Nobody knows how to operate printers and scanners because they are not build by people that are tech literate.

Give a printer or scanner a proper UI using the design principles that modern apps use and see how easy newer generations pick things up

I mean, why not? If you’re not necessarily a gamer or need computing power for dev stuff, why buy the latest and greatest?

In the end, buying new hardware every other release is also just consumerism. The performance of a modern day mid range CPU is absolutely overkill for everyday use

Not really. HiFi Rush reminded me a little bit of Lego Star Wars (which also Had a mechanic that made you deal more damage if you attacked on beat with your lightsaber!), but that may have been my nostalgia for the Lego game more than some deeper similarities

Pixel Dungeon! Great rogue like mobile game