Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by pjmlp on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:01AM (#26680336)

Missed this remark?

> There is no way, because the only way to make it work is to dig out a pre-historic kernel from the same year Asus released 1215B with Linux support.

My dear, my first UNIX experience was with Xenix back in 1993, I also used DG/UX, Tru64, HP-UX, Aix, Solaris, Slackware, Red-Hat, Yasdril, Mandranke, SuSE, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian, OS, Scientific Linux.

Back in 2002 - 2003, I wrote cluster simulation software while at CERN running on Linux, followed by other examples of deployment of Linux based software into production, like Nokia's NetAct cluster monitoring platform.

I think I can manage with the basics.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by joana035 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:27AM (#26680858)

Sorry, I didn't though that would offend you.

I just think that those issues are relatively easy to fix and that you can still have the proprietary gpu modules to get OpenGL 4.1 back.

For the wifi to work well with the open module you could have installed the firmwares.

That's what I mean by basics, I didn't meant to put down your credentials :)

Sorry again for my poor writing

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by pjmlp on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:44AM (#26680961)

None taken, and it is easier just to re-install Windows with the proprietary drivers than hacking a modern kernel to run fxglr.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by joana035 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:56AM (#26681073)

I don't think judging the Linux experience based on an EeePC is fair.

That hardware always felt like a throw away when it came out during the netbook boom from a decade ago.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by pjmlp on Saturday April 03, 2021 @10:07AM (#26681158)

I judge my Linux experience starting in Summer 1995, the year I got my first Linux distribution, Slackware 2.0, that makes a couple of years in experience.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by joana035 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @10:21AM (#26681301)

I wish you can give another try, much has changed since then.

For me Debian Testing with Gnome is being a very nice experience (enjoyable ride).

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by pjmlp on Saturday April 03, 2021 @10:36AM (#26681403)

Again don't assume you know anything about me, I have enough Linux appliances and the office has enough distributions to try out.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by joana035 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:01AM (#26681566)

I'm not assuming, and that is ok.

Try to not see everything as an attack against your identity, detach yourself from it and don't take yourself too seriously. Been there, done that.

Now I have a way more pleasant life experience and people takes me seriously without having me needing to assert who I am. Life is lighter now and I have more friends, people few more comfortable around me.

I'm giving this feedback because I think it will make your life better too.

Was nice to chat with you, now I'll go out for a bike ride while I still a bit of sun over here.

Happy Easter!

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