Atlas26

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by Atlas26 4mo ago
The only thing Android shares with Linux desktop/server Linux is the kernel, the entire rest of the OS built on top of it is completely different so it’s a pointless comparison. While it uses the Linux kernel, it’s not considered the L
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by Atlas26 5mo ago
This is guaranteed just to be windows reinstalling drivers it thinks the laptop needs by default for basica functionality (it is considering the Lenovo service a standard system driver like the Intel ones since sometimes those are used to e
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by Atlas26 6mo ago
That’s absolutely not a normal or expected experience whatever. A standard, normal Linux install (not any weird experimental stuff like trying to install stuff to ntfs drives or running super arcane or unusual setups), just your normal sta
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by Atlas26 6mo ago
Nah, nvidia drivers on Linux 2026 is hands down just as easy as AMD. I’ve had no more issues than running an AMD card and everything works flawlessly. They’re 100% right at the absolutely generational improvement in nvidia drivers since the
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by Atlas26 6mo ago
Nothing about intertia means it’s ever “too late”, just that there’s a lag between a change (positive or negative) and its effect. People said the exact same thing about Linux ever taking off on the desktop, but slowly but surely it’s incre
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by Atlas26 6mo ago
This is definitely a Mac-apologia to the extreme argument. Microsoft isn’t event the one that came up with the layout, it was the IBM compatible PC keyboard layout that was specifically designed as a keyboard standard to be used across the
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by Atlas26 6mo ago
> Could anybody imagine Intel where it is now ? This comment is multiple years out of date at this point…Lunar lake was considered an exceptionally successful Mobile processor platform that was extremely competitive with Apple M series c
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by Atlas26 6mo ago
> I always hear people say nothing sticks after an update but have literally only encountered that with Microsoft Edge and the default search engine. Not any of the Windows features disabled or configured by the script. Not sure if it’s
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by Atlas26 6mo ago
macOS has some strengths and is certainly ahead of Linux in terms of a11y but my experience working in web accessibility, it seems most visually impaired individuals have a preference for windows, seemingly because it has the most mature se
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by Atlas26 6mo ago
Eh, no. My experience working in web accessibility, it seems most visually impaired individuals have a preference for windows, seemingly because it has the most mature set of accessibility/screen reader tools around largely because of
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by Atlas26 8mo ago
Gotta be something hardware specific to you like the other guy said cause I literally just did a fresh fedora install on a 4K display a few months ago with zero issues, and majority of people I know also use 4K displays for their Fedora wor
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by Atlas26 8mo ago
> it is extremely opinionated so instead of ending with a tailored custom tiling WM that suits your needs at the end of the learning curve, you end up with a tiling WM that is suited for someone else’s needs. DHH built it, and I find it
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by Atlas26 8mo ago
> Linux isn't in position regarding display/UI. I’m glad everyone is dogpiling on this statement cause man people seriously have to stop parroting this years out of date claim at this point. Any big well supported distro using
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by Atlas26 8mo ago
That’s not a KDE issue though, blame the themes
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by Atlas26 11mo ago
I don’t like macOS or GNOME, but if I had to use something from that paradigm I think GNOME is way better. GNOME feels like how Mac users talk about macOS. Whereas macOS just has nonsensical stupid things like delete key behavior, apps stay
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by Atlas26 11mo ago
esim is maybe my favorite mobile innovation ever. As someone who also travels a ton I could not stand dealing with a bunch of physical sims and would just end up not even bothering and relying on WiFi which made everything a massive pain. N
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by Atlas26 11mo ago
> My first computer had a whopping 24 mb of memory. That computer browsed the web, with javascript. Now just my browser winds up eating ~ 3 gb of ram on a regular basis, with just youtube easily eating 600 mb of ram. Eh, that’s a massive
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by Atlas26 11mo ago
Hasn’t been true for years now as a 10+ year mac and windows user
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by Atlas26 2y ago
> Of course then there is also that one guy who fidgets around on stage for 10 solid minutes, before we are treated to a tiling window manager with eleventynine terminal windows and a hundred nervously fat-fingered xrandr command lines.
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by Atlas26 3y ago
> But the caveat was that some of the features were not translated via wine. For example some type of lightning or shading (as in shadows) technique... like you would just not have shadows. So back then it was said that games ran faster
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by Atlas26 3y ago
This isn't accurate. Only ~30% of Fedora contributions come from Red Hatters, they specifically changed the council structure so much more appointments can be selected by the community rather than Red Hat: "Historical Note The pre
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by Atlas26 5y ago
> From the individual perspective, staying too long slows down your rate of learning because you aren’t coming into contact with new people and technology at the same rate. Anecdotal, but lately I’ve interviewed some 8+ year tenured cand
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by Atlas26 6y ago
Value of work definitely is a major part of it depending on priorities, but also everything else you said. It’s not a black and white thing as some make out, all revolving around one element.
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by Atlas26 6y ago
> (and borderline divorced from understanding how business works) This describes 90+% of HN posters these days, to be fair. You’re absolutely completely right in your argument.
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by Atlas26 8y ago
They cut off contact for a separate reason - 2000 (IIRC) supermicro boards which did have issues.
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by Atlas26 8y ago
Basic internet and computer hygiene makes it incredibly easy, even inherent, in avoidng spyware/adware/malware and crappy software. Now some people who don’t do that might find nuking it all to be easier than trying to uninstall e