Don’t forget that they’re buddy buddy with amazon, and have even included amazon sourced ads within the OS at one point.

No. I daily a Galaxy S23. I really like it except for all of Samsungs preinstalled apps that can’t be deleted.

A couple months back, I bought a refurbished OnePlus 6T (2018) to mess around with Linux and de-Googled Android, and guess what, my phone which is 5 years newer feels virtually no different. It does have a better camera, granted, but personally that doesn’t effect me as I do any serious photography with a proper camera anyway (also, I have to acknowledge that the 6T is slower as it’s not really a flagship phone like the S23, but the 6T feels comparable quality and performance wise to some mid range 2024 phones I’ve used).

Bottom line, unless we see more Apple M-style chipsets in phones, imo, we’re at a plateau. You could get a $200 5 year old phone and be fine.

Fyi you can add as many as you want to your favourites. And even without that, I found scrolling through with the alphabetical sidebar to be super fast. Definitely not for everyone tho

All I want on this Earth is a FOSS alternative to Niagara launcher. I love a simple icon/list launcher but Niagaras permission requirements are unsettling. Kvaesitso is great, and easily the most polished FOSS launcher I’ve used, but just doesn’t quite hit that mark for me. The closest I’ve found is Plasma Mobile, but I don’t feel like setting up halium just for a launcher.

Succumb to your temptations… skip dual booting and vms… nuke your Windows partition with Gentoo… you know you want to

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Hey, it looks clean and functional. Just keep taking it one step at a time, and learn as much as you can.

I was on a GTX1080 for a long time. Nothing absolutely dealbreaking, but lots of small naggling issues that took lots of annoying troubleshooting to fix. Plus, abysmal DX12 performance (which is a limitation of the cards Pascal architecture as far as I know, not everyone experiences it but it’s common enough).

Switched to an RX 7600XT and wow. Night and day. Zero configuration, zero weird issues, games perform fantastic at high settings (CP2077 at 1440p/High settings across the board is a pretty stable 80+ FPS, compared to 50fps at low and medium and 1080p with the old card, even on Windows). Complete gamechanger.

That’s potentially my biggest issue woth Windows. You aren’t actually made to understand what went wrong. Linux will give you lots of information. It can be overwhelming if you’re just used to seeing “This app stopped working, wait or close it?”, but once you’re used to it, you realize that info usually give you all the tools you need to fix your problem.

To be fair, I’ve had some issues on Windows that have left microsoft support staff saying “yeah man Idk good luck hope you figure that out lol”. Meanwhile, on Arch, I’ve never had a problem that didn’t have a solution, or at least a clearly documented cause (which is almost always just as important as the solution) right there in plain text on the ArchWiki.

Plus, when a windows error happens, you usually just get a little message saying “It dun broke 🤷‍♂️”. Again, on linux, 9 times out of 10, I get a pretty detailed error message at least telling me what broke, and maybe even some hints as to why. I get that Windows has error logs, but I bever have to dig for that info on linux, it’s always presented to me because it’s important.

And then, experience the joy of that program spreading its files to 6 different directories, all at different levels of your drive. Who cares about having a sensical file system that clearly separates system from user?

I was just about to say, yes it can get tiresome to hear the same debates over and over, but it’s kind of what makes FOSS great. We can debate about it and actually have our stances make a difference in the end result of how our systems function.

Oh? Never heard of it, just use neofetch cause it’s the first one I’ve found. What makes it superior?

No offense taken, to each their own. I’ve tried plank a few times, I always find it lacking in options and end up coming back to latte. I agree latte can have stability issues, but I disabled animations and transparency and it’s incredibly snappy so far. And to be fair, I’ve never commited to learning planks ins and outs so maybe someday I’ll give it a more serious try and find I like it. I do appreciate your input though.

The Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Denmark are all capitalist societies and run on <5 day work weeks. Capitalism is not the problem, North American society in particular is what seems to have the problem.

Try it on an external drive. I did that a couple years ago just to fool around and see if I liked it, within a week it was my main OS and I’ve barely used Windows since.

The only modern games I’ve ever had issues with were a few select DX12 games (and that’s due to my GPU). Outside of that, some old games outside of Steam game me trouble, but that’s usually just a matter of fiddling with some settings in Lutris. Even then, those are usually games that also have trouble on modern Windows versions, and they often require less tweaking on Linux to get them running.

The torque issue would be really easy to fix. The beauty of EVs is everything is computer controlled, so it’d be as simple as programming in a “low” mode by making the motors deliver power/torque on a much more gradual curve relative to pedal input (emulating a traditional gearboxes low range gears). The weight might be less of an issue at that point, although it’s still going to be a problem no matter how you slice it

1. I can totally tell tone of voice an intention through text /s

2. One of many methods.

3. Don’t be an asshole.

Yeah I’m aware they’re still in a really early/rough state, I definitely used the term pretty loosely. From what I understand they’re capable of reliably texting, calling, light web browsing and maybe playing some audio. If you aren’t someone who frequently/extensively uses your phone, and has decent knowledge of Linux, this may be enough for you. Def not the average user though.