Ya, it’s a work laptop so cut the disk in half and installed Pop!OS Linux on one half and kept Windows just in case work needed it.
Then I needed GUIX OS and installed it over the Windows partition, so it’s a dualboot Linux/Linux now.
Maybe I should put two Apple stickers on it.
Depends on your tolerance for stretched definitions, but it’s one of those covered litterboxes a door.
My wife uses mac and gets a lot of these stickers.
I put them on everything because I find it silly: my Thinkpad, my Nintendo Switch, the cat toilet…
It’s also valuable and round, so I consider pizza coin.
Well, it’s primarily my coding laptop, so I prioritize the OS that has the best tooling for my needs there. Gaming is just a happy secondary option on the machine. :)
The stereotype is of the haughty Linux user, but fuck me all I ever see in these discussions is Windows users being belittling assholes.
See if you can trick Ross Scott into playing it. :) He has near infinite patience for forcing old games to run, and a skilled network to lean on.
Take your aggressively rude snobbish attitude elsewhere.
I run Windows normally.
How long does your Window box function without updates? How long does it remain safe? Historically, a few months at best until they bundle telemetry in a new way. Then you need to find another rando dude’s github for workarounds.
Anyway what you are describing is literally a hassle that for me is just not worth it. I can do all that and set up and update group policies for updates over and over oooooor I can literally spend less mental energy figuring out how to configure my drivers on Linux.
What you do works for you and you feel it is convenient. That is fine.
I have a Windows laptop specifically for gaming, but I end up using my Linux coding laptop for games in the end.
It’s less hassle figuring out how to enable nvidia drivers on xorg in GNU linux so that I csn use Proton emulation than to deal with this weeks clusterfuck of windows update trying to make me turn on ads and spying and trick me into using a microsoft.com account to log in.
I am not joking.
The windows still has some dust on it from when I did some house renovations months ago, because I haven’t been bothered to use it.
Well this looks bonkers enough by the trailer and description. Will be interesting to see more when gameplay footage comes out.
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Yes a subscription service for my… mouse please that sounds like an improvement.
Make all tools obtrusive lets go
What do you write in it? Languages, tech stack etc
I like NeoVIM, but in the end it got a bit frustrating to get the tooling to behave, like language server for Guile, especially when the configuration was half config format, half Lua code, third half referencing those from Vim.
In Emacs everything - code, config, invocations - are jus lisp. And the ecosystem is a bit more mature for the tools I use in our current codebase.
Programmer here.
Clicking things in elaborate IDE GUIs and copying stuff they don’t understand appears widespread because it’s easy to teach and make a video about, but it’s not it.
My days are spent in Emacs, (used to be Vim), and a Bash terminal. I sometimes use an more “fancy” IDE for a year or two but I always realize they slow me down and make me stupid.
I write code I understand based on system models I discuss with the team. My time is spent thinking about the models, learning the components I work with, debugging, etc. While all of these involve typing up some code, only 5% or so is writing actually “finished” code.
Yes. Any box with a loose lid will do.
The traditional “smørtine” my great grandparents used for this purpose is just a wooden box with a loose lid that they painted fancy.
Start your day with a challenge: keep it in the fridge
AI nonsense, shoo