No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.
I used linux in the past, both privately and work-related, but the last time was over 10 years ago, so I’m a bit out of touch. I am in need of a new PC, but it’ll be a good year before I have the funds, so for now I am making due with an i5 7500 and a gtx 1660. I do have 32 GB so there’s that. I finally feel confident...
Rhino [a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution with Pacstall & XFCE at its core] has now officially moved out of Beta! We have released Rhino Linux 2023.1 on x86_64, ARM, Pine64 and Raspberry Pi devices....
I’ve installed arch Linux and liked it, but lfs and Gentoo would be too time consuming compiling everything and not doing anything during and after install. Are there any distros like arch that don’t have me compiling everything?
This is through summer and universities break. Its fair to expect a higher increase through the last Quarter of the year and probably surpassing ChromeOS with 3.24%
Mainly non tech university students. I remember seeing most of the baristas humanities and business students using them. Mainly to look trendy and also they have crazy battery life.
And this is through summer and universities break. Its fair to expect a higher increase through the last Quarter of the year and probably surpassing ChromeOS with 3.24%
Seems to be truly be gaining momentum and solidifying its status though. Linux 30 years, 20 years, 10 years, even 5 years ago is not even comparable its current state.
Gnome 45 and Plasma 6 are coming by the end of the year. Add that Wine/Proton further development to bring in even more games. It’ll all increase Linux user experience even further to what Windows is offering right now.
According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2%...
New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment - Apple Silicon M1/M2 ( youtu.be )
No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.
Inkscape Outdoes Itself Again | Version 1.3 Has Arrived! ( youtu.be )
Inkscape Outdoes Itself Again | Version 1.3 Has Arrived! ( youtu.be )
Yeah! Today is 18 Years of openSUSE ( news.opensuse.org )
Opensuse TW all day every day
State of gaming on linux?
I used linux in the past, both privately and work-related, but the last time was over 10 years ago, so I’m a bit out of touch. I am in need of a new PC, but it’ll be a good year before I have the funds, so for now I am making due with an i5 7500 and a gtx 1660. I do have 32 GB so there’s that. I finally feel confident...
GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released ( www.phoronix.com )
Rhino Linux 2023.1, how we made the distro ( rhinolinux.org )
Rhino [a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution with Pacstall & XFCE at its core] has now officially moved out of Beta! We have released Rhino Linux 2023.1 on x86_64, ARM, Pine64 and Raspberry Pi devices....
Distro recommendation for ease of use and up to date software
Note: I don’t know if I’m posting this in the right community, I joined Lemmy recently....
Current Wayland targets devs are working on?
Curious about them and when around they may come to us
Ubunchu ( mangakakalot.com )
what are some advanced linux distros that don't have me compiling everything?
I’ve installed arch Linux and liked it, but lfs and Gentoo would be too time consuming compiling everything and not doing anything during and after install. Are there any distros like arch that don’t have me compiling everything?
Most popular 'real' desktop will soon be the Linux desktop [Opinion] ( www.theregister.com )
This week in KDE: porting, Dolphin, KWin and Wayland fixes ( pointieststick.com )
PipeWire 0.3.77 Released ( gitlab.freedesktop.org )
PipeWire 0.3.77 (2023-08-04)...
August Plasma 6 great progress update ( pointieststick.com )
Flatsweep Cleans Leftover Data from Uninstalled Flatpaks ( www.omglinux.com )
Great app
Linux Desktop Share keeps increasing, 3.13% now. Narrowing the gap to ChromeOs 3.24% ( lemmy.ml )
Linux Desktop Share keeps increasing, 3.13% now. Narrowing the gap to ChromeOs 3.24% ( gs.statcounter.com )
Linux Desktop Share keeps increasing, 3.13% now. Narrowing the gap to ChromeOs 3.24% ( gs.statcounter.com )
Your First Look at GNOME 45's Default Wallpaper - OMG! Linux ( lemmy.ml )
This Morning Cemented My Love for KDE Plasma
It is 5 am, I have not slept tonight, but what I have done makes me very happy....
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS ( www.phoronix.com )
According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2%...
I feel called out ( sh.itjust.works )