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screamin_jesus
3y ago
same here, I can't justify upgrading for a few more years, but definitely planning on framework for my next laptop, what they're doing is really cool
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screamin_jesus
3y ago
Techies enthusiastically recommended chrome because it was by far the most stable and responsive and secure browser. Prior to quantum, firefox was a dog, and let's not talk about internet explorer...
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screamin_jesus
4y ago
ah yes, the most perfect thing to ever exist: https://i.imgur.com/X5BzWQj.jpg there's plenty of things I don't like in newer windows versions, but the introduction of compositing is not one of them
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screamin_jesus
12y ago
Near perfect gestures integration, and the touchpad behaves very consistently and reliably system wide (osx has system wide smooth/responsive scrolling for example), and the touchpad hardware itself is just very nice and pleasant to us
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screamin_jesus
12y ago
Gonna have to agree with you, I used desktop linux for years (even on one system76 laptop that had ubuntu pre-installed), and it felt like I was spending more time reporting bugs, working around bugs, and distro-hopping than actually using
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screamin_jesus
12y ago
The one area where apple really exels though, in both hardware and software is the touchpad. I cannot stand using the touchpad on any windows laptop I used, the touchpad is 99% the reason I still use a mac/osx.
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screamin_jesus
12y ago
XFCE is definitely still a lot lighter weight than gnome or KDE. I think its continuing to fit its niche well, something between the main DE's (gnome/kde/unity) and lighter stuff like lxde
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screamin_jesus
12y ago
How so? I've found steam is by far the best digital distribution client when it comes to managing my game library, mainly because of the 'steam libraries' feature that lets you create a steam library on any hard drive to inst