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GeistInTheMachine 路 31-35, M
Yeah, ditch the poison Apple.
Lenovo has really served me well. Would buy again. 10/10.
Mine has lasted me a decade. Best financial investment in tech I have made.
Especially if you can install Linux and ditch new Windows and give the finger to Bill Gates, but that is another matter.
Lenovo has really served me well. Would buy again. 10/10.
Mine has lasted me a decade. Best financial investment in tech I have made.
Especially if you can install Linux and ditch new Windows and give the finger to Bill Gates, but that is another matter.
CrazyMusicLover 路 31-35
@GeistInTheMachine I agree. Mine looks like a great notebook but Windows 11 is total shit and devalues it.
GeistInTheMachine 路 31-35, M
CrazyMusicLover 路 31-35
@GeistInTheMachine I wish I was more tech-savvy. 馃槄 I wouldn't know how to get the programs I use on it. I'm not sure if they would be compatible, actually.
GeistInTheMachine 路 31-35, M
@CrazyMusicLover There are free and paid alternatives to windows programs on the different Linux distros.
It can be confusing, unfortunately. Thankfully, Linux is becoming more and more user friendly over time.
If you're at all interested, I would look up guides and information online and on youtube.
Especially when in comes to privacy, definately bet on Linux for computers and GrapheneOS for phones.
Sadly, those are the lengths we have to go to if we want to be free from these predatory corporations and ther ties to intellegence agencies.
Not to mention the spyware, viruses, security issues and bloatware that expose your info and slow the system down quickly if not careful.
Apple has always been overhyped and overpriced trash IMO. Don't get me started, lol.
It can be confusing, unfortunately. Thankfully, Linux is becoming more and more user friendly over time.
If you're at all interested, I would look up guides and information online and on youtube.
Especially when in comes to privacy, definately bet on Linux for computers and GrapheneOS for phones.
Sadly, those are the lengths we have to go to if we want to be free from these predatory corporations and ther ties to intellegence agencies.
Not to mention the spyware, viruses, security issues and bloatware that expose your info and slow the system down quickly if not careful.
Apple has always been overhyped and overpriced trash IMO. Don't get me started, lol.
Elessar 路 26-30, M
@GeistInTheMachine I'm currently with W11 on my main machine and I wouldn't say it's too bad, especially with the WSL thing that allows you to open a linux shell, so you have basically the best of both worlds without dual-booting.
The problem with linux on non-server machines is that you always seem to have at least one piece of hardware that doesn't behave properly, on laptops especially: Intel's iGPUs that randomly fail to initialize and get you stuck at boot (or worse, when resuming from standby, forcing you to hard-reboot and lose everything that wasn't saved), the audio as a whole is a clusterf*ck and unless they ditch ALSA and rewrite a new thing from scratch I see no chance of improvement anytime soon, power consumption / battery drain that for some unknown reason is higher.. and *a lot* of things to configure. I don't see the average Joe messing up with the shell and configuration files just to get rid of the screen tearing, the boot issues, or merely updating their graphic driver. There's still too many rough edges imo.
The problem with linux on non-server machines is that you always seem to have at least one piece of hardware that doesn't behave properly, on laptops especially: Intel's iGPUs that randomly fail to initialize and get you stuck at boot (or worse, when resuming from standby, forcing you to hard-reboot and lose everything that wasn't saved), the audio as a whole is a clusterf*ck and unless they ditch ALSA and rewrite a new thing from scratch I see no chance of improvement anytime soon, power consumption / battery drain that for some unknown reason is higher.. and *a lot* of things to configure. I don't see the average Joe messing up with the shell and configuration files just to get rid of the screen tearing, the boot issues, or merely updating their graphic driver. There's still too many rough edges imo.