Agreed as I’m using a Surface Go 1 with typecover (keyboard) as a daily driver with Fedora.

I’d get a used one to avoid giving money to Microsoft.

Yeah I’m using Whatsapp Business for groups I can’t convince to move (it allows me to have an automated message to say I won’t answer on Whatsapp), Signal for people who could move but won’t pay anything and Threema for almost everyone else including my family.

I wish Signal or Threema would allow a selected opt in interoperability with Whatsapp so that I could really ditch it.

I’ve read 70% of your guide and it seems great. I just hope people (not on Lemmy) will easily find it on the web when looking for help.

Good work for our community 👍

Let’s hope it’s gonna find a manufacturer to build a TV with it, or at least to open its bootloader.

Interesting.

Does every smart TV has a hotel mode?

I have a Philips 55PUS7394 and I couldn’t find one by quickly searching on the web.

It would be lovely if we could just boot a TV specialized Linux distro.

Sadly I don’t think it’s going to appear soon except if someone (a conpany) decides to create a niche product filling that need.

To be honest I don’t think so.

When using Peertube or Xoutube I always use 720p to avoid stuttering.

But for everything else it has been performing well for 5 years.

I have a Surface Go1 8GB of Ram with a typecover keyboard and it’s been great running Fedora Workstation for years.

I use it most’y docked to a bigger screen but it’s my daily driver.

I understand your feeling as I like the Apple classy touch and would love to find it elsewhere.

I guess you’re gonna have to compromise on something as I don’t know about any laptop bring all of these things.

The Peertube Firefox add on looks like a great idea👍

I might add it even if I already have a lot of things to watch on Peertube.

Surface Go 1: Had problems with my bluetooth mouse being slow to be detected. Also sometime it’s slow until I connect and disconnect the screen it’s hooked up to. Otherwise works flawlessly.

MacBook Pro 2012: Sometimes I have to reinstall some drivers for the wifi. Otherwise works flawlessly.

Both run Fedora 42. So I’d advise you to not give up and maybe just switch distro👍

The game was okay, but clearly worse than the first one.

I also got annoyed by the fact that the main character was a nice sensitive guy willing to kill 20 security guards just doing their daily job😅

Every game works on my Steam Deck so far.

I always check ProtonDB before buying a game, but I might stop as everything without special anticheat works out of the box.

I just have to add that I’m not into multiplayer games so it might be why everything works easily.

I tried running Frostpunk 1 on the MacBook Pro 2012 (upgraded with an SSD and 16gb of Ram) and it wouldn’t boot despite the fact that it’s an old game and that I tried some special settings and commands.

I guess you can still play some games on ot, but many are out of reach, even some of the ones you’d think would be playable…

That is what I’m using on a 2012 MacBook Pro with some upgrades.

It works really well except for when there is an update to the wifi broadcom drivers. Then I have to use my phone to provide internet through USB.

Otherwise it’s a beast but gaming is out of the question.

I guess most people would not only want to easily reinstall all their apps, but also the settings related to them.

Sadly that’s the difficult part.

When I see how much time it takes me to have all my calendar and settings in Thunderbird.

Luckily for Thunderbird you can save your profile if everything takes less than 2gb, but it’s still a hassle to find a way to backup every program.

Yes I heard about it but apparently NixOS is quite complex and not accessible to someone like me who considers himself as an eternal Linux newbie.

I’ve never tried an immutable OS, but I’d love if the ability to do system backups and redeploy to another computer was just part of any OS.

Especially when Linux encourages you to distro hopp.

Clonezilla is great but it already happened to me that one backup wasn’t deployable on another (really old) computer

I’m looking forward to getting an old ARM computer and installing Linux without any worry one day🤞

Agreed, but carrying two phones, charging them and paying for them would be too annoying and wasteful.

But I know that my employer could see a lot of my infos if he wanted to. Luckily I trust my employer way more than all these companies like Apple or Google who already have acces to our data.