After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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I guess for desktops you have a point, especially if you build it yourself. I was thinking of laptops mostly and also considering the build quality and things like the keyboard/trackpad, screen and speaker quality. If you want something comparable running Windows the price difference isn't going to be massive.
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Well it's a good thing there's no shortage of free replacements.
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Having this LLM bullshit in Notepad should be the real news
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Apple heavily pushes their users towards iCloud subscriptions. More so on iOS than macOS but still.
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Sublime Text for me. It has some nifty features that NP++ doesn't, and looks better out of the box.
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What a sycophantic shitlord.
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I have a lenovo yoga 14s which is similarly transformable. Are there good resources put there for installing linux on this kind of laptop?
Honestly Windows on it is just a nightmare and I'd love to ditch it.
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Something insulted you in my comment or you feel the urge to take sides in things you most likely haven't compared? Linux is a mess compared to BSDs. Anyone who used them all can confirm this.
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You mean the entire fucking world where *BSD is basically dead and Linux is fucking everywhere? Yeah... sure, buddy.
*BSD has always been a poor alternative to Linux because of design decisions, poor hardware support, and a garbage license that allows non-free software to steal and use your code irresponsibly. *BSD sucks.
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No, only in so far as the button to use it existing passively
No
And no
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Nothing I could find immediately. I found an Arch Wiki entry which shows that most features work out of the box. Not sure if that's your exact model and can't comment on how reliable the information presented is too.
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You mean the entire fucking world where *BSD is basically dead and Linux is fucking everywhere? Yeah… sure, buddy.
This is not a valid argument and also you are quite ignorant of what's everywhere and what is dead.
*BSD has always been a poor alternative to Linux
The other way around technically, one came before the other and was a more mature system, with ongoing lawsuits however.
Also SunOS 4 and Ultrix are BSD, if you didn't know. Commercial high-end OSes before Linux even started. About "poor alternatives".
because of design decisions,
You don't know what you're talking about, anything but this argument. BSDs' design decisions allow them to solve the same problems orders of magnitude cheaper (in human effort) than Linux. That's how they still survive.
Under FreeBSD there are GEOM, netgraph, properly working ZFS since long ago, proper separation of base system and packages, the ports system, Linux emulation for legacy software, all orderly and clean. Under Linux the horrible mess starts with Debian netinstall.
By the way, you don't even know your own team, Eric S. Raymond of the "cathedral vs bazaar" glory notoriously disagreed with you, despite the comparison being supposed to put Linux on top. His point was that if you allow thousands of monkey developers, they might not do things so well, but they'll do so much more that it's justified, and thus Linux wins due to having shittier architecture, but developing faster.
poor hardware support,
Go use Windows then, it has almost perfect hardware support.
and a garbage license that allows non-free software to “steal” (take) and use your code irresponsibly.
So Google uses GPL code responsibly, right? Microsoft? Apple? Meta?
This argument is obsolete.
I dunno where the circus is, but the clowns are already here.
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You can buy a top CPU laptop then upgrade or even pay to upgrade with high quality ram and storage modules and you would still be paying less than an equivalent Mac. Which you can't upgrade of course, because the only option is buying as is out of the gate. No matter what Apple says, 32 GB of ram simply doesn't cost $300, their pricing is meant to fleece customers.
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This is always so unfair to XFCE. Sure it is low impact on resources but it is also very flexible and customizable. Most people sleep on how good it can be outside of the low resources need.
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Thanks! Looks like on the talk page there's doubt about whether it even has a touchscreen, which is a little discouraging. I guess I can just try, but It's good to know a resource like this exists.
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It’s part of the KDE Plasma desktop.
KDE is not "The OS".
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They really do seem to be on a mission to cram it into everything
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Is there a particular model you're thinking of? Not just the line. I usually find that the Windows laptops don't have enough cooling or make other sacrifices. If you want good cooling, good power (CPU and GPU), good screen, good keyboard, good battery, good WiFi, etc: the options get limited pretty quick.
Even the RAM cost misses some of the picture. Apple Silicon's RAM is available to the GPU and can run local LLMs and other machine learning models. Pre-AI-hype Macs from 2021 (maybe 2020) already had this hardware. Compare that to PC laptops othe same era. Even in this era, try getting Apple's 200-400GB/s RAM performance on a PC laptop.
PC desktop hardware is the most flexible option at any budget, and pretty cost effective and most budgets. For laptops, Apple dominate their price points, even pre-Apple-silicon.
The OS becomes the final nail in the coffin. Linux is great, but the reality is a lot of software still only supports Windows and Apple; and Linux support for the latest/current hardware can be a hit or miss (My three-year-old, 12th gen Thinkpad just started running good). If the choice is between Mac OS or Windows 11, is there really much of a choice? Does that change if a company wants to buy it, manage it, and support it? Which model should we be looking at? It's about time to replace my Thinkpad.
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Yeah. This is why I've disabled copilot and Gemini on my devices altogether. It's not worth it to have this nonsense filling up everything you use or rely on on a daily basis.
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You're sounding like one of those people that says "ummm ackshully it's GNU + Linux"
Yes, you can have a desktop without a desktop environment. Well done. Nobody does that in the desktop space. Kate is an OS program.
If you install a distro with KDE, you will have Kate. It's an OS program.
Case in point, you can install Kate, and Dolphin, on FreeBSD. And on Windows.
Pahahaha, that's not what defines whether a program is an OS one or not. You can run paint on Linux if you wanted to. Based on your definition, Paint therefore isn't part of the Windows app suite.
