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Good luck preparing for exams without a PC and also not touch a smartphone in a timespan of 10 months...
I don't recall saying anything about smartphone?
I feel like you might be cutting out the wrong device if the goal is to limit distractions.
I can't realistically cut off my phone entirely but reduce the number of apps installed. I currently have only Firefox, Spotify, Proton Mail and Whatsapp which could distract me. Rest is utility apps like maps, calculator, messages etc.
how do you even do your assignments without a pc/notebook?
Paper.
Ya for real. I use my Linux Surface as a replacement for my phone because everything about my phone is built to distract me and keep my attention.
How is that better
If your phone is android its still Linux. Even if its not its still a personal computer.
It doesnt matter in this case
- Green fingers from touching too much grass.
he will touch more books than grass
This seems fun my prediction is that twitter will suffer a massive breach especially with how theyre handling verification in like 5 months
I have a less drastic prediction for Pop. It will release Cosmic, and instead of taking over, it will just rise a few places in the list of commonly recommended distros, and become another DE for people to argue whether it's the best.
I predict, when you finally run updates, you'll have minor keyring issues to work around.
Also after you reboot, if you're on Nvidia, your DM may not load until you update your drivers.
Framework will ship linux out of the box. I will have replaced the fans on my computer so they dont sound like industrial machinery.
Framework laptops aren't actually designed with Linux in mind are they? Remember hearing they used some hardware that wasn't well supported on linux
Their customer base loves linux so I think they will eventually.
Bye, see ya in 2 weeks
I sent you my obligatory upvote.
I have a System76 laptop, but I don't like Pop!_OS. Maybe it's just because I don't like GNOME.
Probably. It's just gnome with a theme and some extensions.
GNOME 2 was great. So great that it lives on today as MATE. But I just can't get used to current GNOME at all and can't understand why KDE Plasma isn't popular.
What do you mean it isn't popular? I was under the impression that KDE was roughly as used as GNOME, maybe a little less since it's not the default in as many distros. As for why current GNOME is popular, my guess it's mostly momentum (since GNOME was already popular) but it being a very clean and polished desktop probably helps as well.
It always seems like for the last decade or so, Linux fans have been all about GNOME or the tiling window managers. There aren't really any distros I'm aware of other than KDE Neon that ship KDE as the default anymore, and some of the most popular distros, like Mint and Pop!_OS, don't even offer a KDE flavor at all.
GNOME just didn't feel right to me at all since GNOME 3. I can't get used to it.
I like the dash in gnome and don’t like the bar in plasma
It's just that the majority prefers a certain style. Gnome 3 has big borders, spacy frames etc. If you hate that, you are not going to enjoy it. :)
KDE also, same modern style.
My issue with GNOME is that it seems like it's trying to be a weird hybrid of a tablet and desktop interface, and you have to install all these extensions if you want to change any of it.
Isn't cosmic going to be its own DE separate from gnome?
Yep cosmic is it's own thing. They have Wayland support etc now, it's going really quickly. I think we will see some betas before end of year.
Good luck on your exam! I just started using pop os after never using Linux and it's really nice
or simply using Firefox.
In my experience Bank care little about anything outside of what they perceive as the mainstream (IE,EDGE,CHROME).
I was pleasantly surprised to see that my bank has security tips on their website for Windows, MacOS and Linux. They also mention Firefox alongside all the other browser options, so at least they can do this one thing right.
Google Play store or even services for damn push "secure 2FA pin"
You can expect a much better posture and stronger back muscles 💪
Star Citizen may run even better on Linux due to the expected switch of backend from DX11 to Vulkan and they will start pushing out native Linux builds. Or it will be more boken due to lack of support for Vulkan APIs in wine and no native build ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I really hope nvk gets performance parity I'd love to be able to ditch the proprietary drivers and be able to use Wayland on my PC
What then, Windows?
- no damn installable package manager
- qclip for clipboard history is annoying
- startisback++, files community and more projects are all paid
But there is lots of nice software you can replace the Windows garbage with and have an okay desktop, still phoning home, shit file manager, stupid filesystem reading/encryption capabilities...
Yeah, good luck haha
Good luck with the exams!
I predict everyone will be busy rewriting everything in Gtk10 and Qt12.. apart from that, nothing happened except wasting time rewriting software everytime someone decide to deprecate a library everyone depends on.