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  • BiggestBulb@kbin.runtoLinux@lemmy.mlHelp with laptop buying decision
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    7 months ago

    I don’t have any experience with Tuxedo or Framework, so I can’t really comment on those 😅

    I have definitely heard Lenovo ThinkPads are great though, and I’m currently rocking a Lenovo Legion Slim 7 which has been fantastic so far (albeit I JUST got it and I’m rolling Windows on it with WSL2 Debian, so not exactly a pure Linux experience).






  • You said you needed something more immediate, I’d say there’s nothing wrong with being a waiter / waitress / bartender while learning something else. They’re not the most secure jobs for sure, but they’re not exactly going extinct.

    Alternatively, hotel staff make a lot (at least a lot for the small town I grew up in).

    If you’re looking for a trade skill - HVAC, plumbing and being a mechanic will all be skills that will stick with you through life and they all pay pretty well.

    Truck driving is really, really in-demand right now. If you’re willing to drive 12-14 hours some days, shower at travel stops and sleep in your cab (at least, that’s what I’m hearing a lot) then that could be for you.




  • Just run stuff out-of-the-gate

    Connect to WiFi properly in a Panera (ymmv, but this was my experience with 3 different Ubuntu-based distros)

    Play pretty much any game (Proton has gotten us far but it’s not the end-all-be-all)

    Be usable without the command line at all (tried giving my GF Linux Mint, no it’s not entirely usable without the command line, and I haven’t found a distro that is)

    *Run Nvidia flawlessly out-of-the-box

    *Be backed up fully and easily (no, TimeShift is not easy, it’s just easy for you after looking up documentation for a hot minute)

    *Except immutable distros like Silverblue *I know Pop_OS! comes with Nvidia drivers before anyone says that, but it’s the odd-one-out


  • Being real, why DON’T distros just have the ability to do the installation if you double-click whatever file is downloaded?

    I feel like we should have either option - download and double-click or just use the command line.

    I mean, what else would double-clicking a .tar.gz file or an appimage do than install it (yes, I know, look into the archive, but really - how often is that the desired thing to do)? So, therefore, why don’t we just have it install the files that are downloaded?

    This is a legit question btw, I really don’t know the answer