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[–] Absaroka 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And laptops, desktops, televisions ...

[–] okamiueru 1 points 16 hours ago

I have a pixel phone with GrapheneOS. My laptop and desktops run Linux. The TV I haven't gotten to, but the options are there as well to have a high quality, yet dumb display.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
  1. buy a laptop/desktop
  2. boot up windows and setup with fake shit
  3. download and flash your favourite linux distro
  4. disable secure boot
  5. boot from usb.
  6. ???
  7. profit!
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Most mainline Linux distro work pretty seamlessly with secureboot these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sadly, there are a few programs I can't run on Linux but I use it daily, no windows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I want to add here my deeply missed Playnite. There is nothing under Linux that comes close. I've settled for the combination of steam, heroic and lutris, but that is not even close for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

While I don't know all the details, and as far as I know there has been no official statement that it will support Linux, the current rewrite of the codebase that is going on will at least allow much easier compatability with Linux. So there's hope :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
  • Internet Download Manager (IDM): Yee, I know it may not increase your download speed but was kinda good to have the main folder of downloads and every file by category downloaded in a subdirectories: Images, Documents, videos, etc. Using JDownloader 2 but it's not the same
  • Affinity Designer: I know there is "Inkscape" but I still prefer affinity for it's UI and because I'm used to it
  • AMD Adrenaline: Yeah, maybe was a bloatware and shit but kinda liked the built in record feature and tweaks you could do
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

fair enough, nobody is forcing you to switch, but Inkscape is there, and i am pretty sure there is a replacement program for on-the-fly recording (never looked into it, i don't really play games like that)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I tried Xubuntu years ago because my PC was shit then kinda abandoned it, got tired of windows and installed Linux. After a big update, Linux broke and trying to reinstall it I... Picked the wrong partition and deleted windows lol

Inkscape is nice but in used to Affinity Designer and kinda love it. For Adrenaline I'm sure it exists but steam built-in feature is enough.

I love my Linux and fuck Micro$oft

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

ugh. wanted to get a oled tv but will not buy a smart tv.

[–] Absaroka 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly ... Just don't connect the TV to the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

ive been pretty anti consumerist lately so I don't need much to get me to not buy things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just keep it offline and get yourself a Nvidia shield as a multimedia station. They are excellent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah I really don't want to have to but that is what I had to do with my fridge. keep it offline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same for my dishwasher. I don't even understand why that thing asked for a wifi connection in the first place, it's not like I can remotely unload it or anything. And a notification is perfectly useless when I can just check my watch...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

heck I was mad years ago when my microwave wanted to know the year. this stuff is getting rediculous. I need to start a thing like the amish but no internet connections allowed except for computers and phones. well ok cameras and sensors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Luckily most devices work perfectly fine without internet. And I get the convenience of being able to switch on the heating or lower the window blinds and stuff from the office before leaving so that it's nice at home, but we did that back in the 90s with a simple timer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

most of the time a timer is more useful than remote access. I have been very tempted to pick up a clapper.