I got my new laptop back in April, had a Windows 11 preinstalled (I wish it wasn’t the case, it would’ve been cheaper but it’s very rare to find OS-less PCs in my country)
Anyway, I prepared a Fedora installation before the laptop got home, booted Windows once to make sure everything (regarding hardware) works, and the rest is history.
I’m a developer and the dev tools on Windows sucked and ate my RAM.
I kinda feel like big tech regrets that we got away with PCs running all foss software. The existence of GNU/Linux saved us in a way, I think some still try to lock us behind Windows I guess but Linux options are not going anywhere and they keep growing stronger I believe. However when it came to smartphones they tried so hard to keep them locked and far from what a natural computer would offer (running anything as long as your CPU architecture supports it). While Android phones got some freedom in the past I believe they’re getting more closed and harder to tweak. Also I was there when iOS jailbreak peaked with all the crazy stuff (it was still hard to switch OS though). Fast forward to smart watches, now these are far more locked than phones and very limited in terms of freedom (even tho some run standars CPUs architectures). I think no way would big tech allow glasses to have freedom and they would make them close to what watches offer these days, maybe worse. I really believe that we should be able to run whatever the hell we want on hardware as long as it is technically possible.
Tl; dr: GNU/Linux saved the PC industry, corpos will not let that happen again with another industry.
Running RTX4050 mobile on Fedora 41 (internet too crappy to upgrade to 42)
Works great!
Except for unreal 5 games but idk if that’s a driver or a proton issue :/
Sounds too good for this enshittified dystopia
Steam said it was running
Probably updating the client in the background, for some reason this is the default updating behavior on Linux unlike the visible progress bar on Windows
Or Helix, it has a less steeper curve
You could ask your employer for a license I guess
Btw Rider is now free for non commercial use
But but… User dumb!
shouldn’t use it for your /home
Why?
This looks like the way, I like it!
I’m only worried about the nvidia driver, will it work with secure boot enabled? Given I install it from rpmfusion
Corporate distros and all
The Linux guys obv
Or use VCS like a normal dev
Is anywhere really?
The first song in English I loved, I was 11
It’s now official™
I’d call ones with FreeDOS OS-less