Does it also get dirty and sticky the more you touch it. If so, I am in. Best privacy feature.

These people should get grant funding for reducing e-waste and Apple should pay for it.

Amen. An Intel 7000 or 1st gen Ryzen CPU will play any modern title surprisingly well.

Its windows 11 thats is the problem.

I have had this with some laptops if the charger is faulty. The laptop goes into a limp mode, where the CPU locks to its lowest clock speed.

Since the display is using USB-C it may be triggering the slowness. Some USB-C monitors also deliver power to the connected device.

Is the laptop slow, even when running off battery, or only when running off battery?

Keeping an eye on the CPU frequency with something like Btop can maybe help troubleshoot the issue.

Would love to see work on getting broader application support like for microsoft office.

If you get stuck with Winboat, as its still a very new project, you might want to have a look at winapps, which is very similar

https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

Exactly. Desoldering the wifi antennas is about the best you can do.

Zorin OS makes it easier with their Gnome skins and their touch input preset theme.

Its basically Ubuntu LTS underneath the custom UI changes. Similar to Mint’s approach, but still using Gnome.

Laptops make excellent low power draw servers. Disabling the laptop lid switch is typically trivial. (Tickbox usually)

Also running x86 is an advantage over SBCs like the raspberry pi. Also, use what you have before you buy anything.

Video editing with open source software is still a bit rough on Linux, Kdenlive is there, but you will probably have a much better experience with Davinci Resolve. They have native linux support and most distros are well supported.

Mint should be fine for that. What I think this poster is encountering is that Mint does not always run well on the latest and greatest hardware. The Mint team favours a well tested and older base.

Bazzite and Fedora are a bit friendlier to newer hardware, but not quite as bleeding edge as Arch bases Distros.

Remember that starting with Mint and migrating to something else a year later is a normal and healthy Linux journey, as is staying on Mint for years.

Welcome to having choice! And in my opinion, being an kick ass partner

You taking the inititive is 90% of the reward right there. Sharing is the best part of Tech.

For us its the lack of proper multi-monitor support in the hardware. We have triple 27inch monitor setups on our desks with thunderbolt docks.

Plug a windows or Linux laptop into them no problem, single cable solution and 4 distinct displays. Plug a Mac into it and the best you get is two displays with the 3 external displays all showing the same image. Stupid arbitrary Apple limits.

Plus the Apple hardware is so fragile and difficult to repair. We mostly stick to Dell Latitudes, HP Elitebooks and Lenovo T series because of the better hardware.

Most people dont need more than 10 hours battery life. If you do, you are probably one of those people who always forget to charge their phones anyway.

We are an MSP for small business. We have been a strict linux server environment for 10+ years.

On the desktop side, we have a few clients running Linux mint desktops and laptops now. Mostly for 2nd line personel, or roles where only browsers are required. We run microsoft Edge Browser on those devices for Office 365 usage and because firefox based browsers are so hit and miss with business web apps these days. We have our RMM tool to manage configurations and run our own Rustdesk instance for remote support.

The main impediment for larger adoption we see is still 3rd party app support. Desktop Excel being the primary one. Online Excel and LibreOffice is still not quite there in terms of some features for intermediate users. Whatsapp desktop app for voice calls with clients are also a major one in our country. Its a windows store app, which I have not been able to find a way to get connected to wine.

What we need is a proton like project for business applications. Proton has likely already done half the work. Once Office and windows store apps installs work as smoothly as games under steam, adoption can start at a larger scale.

The question is which company is going to make that investment. Canonical is too close to Microsoft and wont want to upset that relationship. And Red Hat always seems to be stuck in their own world. Other teams with the insight to tackle such a project, are probably too small, or do not have the financial backing or incentive for it.

It’s not about entertainment, its about politics and controlling media.

In Russia, you abuse substances.

I agree with you, its no longer math at thst point, but the application in the service of other fields.

What I am advocating for is that math at most of secondary school level should be taught on the practical basis. Math theory should be treated as a field of specialization. Much like how language is taught after people get over the basic literacy portion.

Math is mostly taught as theory. It should be taught in practice.

Teaching people how to calculate an inventory, or taxes in a spreadsheet, is much more useful than teaching them differentials and number theory.

Its like teaching people carpentry but never having them make anything with it. You just quiz them on which tool and material they need to use.

How are Electricians needing to do so much math? Its basic calculator and lookup table stuff? I mean a janitor does more complication calculations when they dilute cleaning products and estimate how much they will need for a given room.

Ironic, since Japan is one of the last holdouts requiring the use of floppy drive for use in government processes.