Not a lot to this article, but I’m glad he’s focused on making Wayland better.

For real though I’d like a VR system (modern) that can use the steam store natively.

Agreed, I love mine.

Maybe, but I took some business courses too and even some of them had at least tried a Linux distro. I think it was more widespread than just turbo nerds and cs majors. Hell one of the biggest Linux guys I knew was an anthropology major.

This was me, you’re talking about me. 😂 In the 90’s Linux was barely getting started but slackware was probably the main distro everyone was focused on. That was the first one I ran across. This was probably late 90’s, I don’t remember when slack first came about though.

By the time the 2000’s came around, it was basically a normal thing for people in college to have used or at least tried. Linux was in the vernacular, text books had references to it, and the famous lawsuit from SCO v IBM was in full swing. There were distro choices for days, including Gentoo which I spent literally a week getting everything compiled on an old Pentium only for it to not support some of the hardware and refuse to boot.

There was a company I believe called VA Linux that declared that year to be the year of the Linux desktop. My memory might be faulty on this one.

Loki gaming was a company that specialized in porting games to Linux, and they did a good job at it but couldn’t make money. I remember being super excited about them and did buy a few games. I was broke too so that was a real splurge for me. I feel like they launched in the 90’s (late) and crashed in the early 2000’s.

From chat gpt

Here are the steps to dual boot Fedora Kinoite and Windows 11: Preparation

Backup Data: Ensure you have backups of all important data from your Windows system.
Create Live USBs: Create a bootable USB drive for both Windows 11 and Fedora Kinoite using tools like Rufus or Etcher.

Install Windows 11

Boot from Windows USB: Insert the Windows 11 USB drive and boot from it.
Install Windows 11: Follow the installation prompts. When prompted, create a partition for Windows, leaving some unallocated space for Fedora Kinoite.
Complete Installation: Finish the installation and set up Windows 11.

Install Fedora Kinoite

Boot from Fedora USB: Insert the Fedora Kinoite USB drive and boot from it.
Start Installation: Begin the installation process and choose the option to install alongside Windows.
Partitioning:
    Select the unallocated space created earlier.
    Create the necessary partitions for Fedora (usually root / and swap).
Install Fedora: Complete the installation process.

Configure Boot Loader

Set Default Bootloader: Fedora will install GRUB as the bootloader. It should automatically detect Windows 11 and add it to the boot menu.
Verify Entries: After installation, reboot the system. You should see the GRUB menu with options to boot into Fedora or Windows.
Set Default Boot Option (Optional): If you want to change the default boot option, edit the GRUB configuration.

Post-Installation

Update Systems: Boot into both operating systems and ensure they are fully updated.
Install Drivers: Make sure all necessary drivers are installed for both Windows and Fedora.
Test Dual Boot: Reboot several times and test both operating systems to ensure the dual-boot setup works seamlessly.

Troubleshooting

Missing GRUB Menu: If the GRUB menu doesn’t appear, you might need to repair the bootloader using a Fedora live USB.
Windows Boot Issues: If Windows doesn’t boot, you may need to use the Windows recovery options to repair the Windows bootloader and then reinstall GRUB.

Following these steps will help you set up a dual-boot system with Fedora Kinoite and Windows 11.

There is an fdroid version named syncthing fork. Give that a go.

I second KDE connect. It’s awesome. Don’t listen to the haters.

Of course hope it’s helpful. Feel free to open a pull request if you want to make any changes or add something

I’ve just started using Fedora recently and have been pretty impressed but I also ran into some of these annoying issues to start with. I wrote a super quick and dirty first run script to automate the things I use but maybe others will find it useful. I just added it to my GitHub if anyone wants to use it as well. I am not responsible if it wrecks your system.

You may not realize it but you’re kind of making my point. You have prior experience. An Ondsel getting started video is really needed. Especially since they want to charge for it.

The thing I’m struggling with is finding beginner videos for ondsel. The ui is super different, so freecad videos don’t help much. Any suggestions?

I didn’t realize pip and venv didn’t work… that’s a pretty big deal breaker for a lot of people, myself included.

I did, no issues.

So far I love it. I bought it brand new from Lenovo and you could pick from I think 3 or 4 distros. I picked fedora, which it came with 38. When I first booted up it had a bios update which honestly surprised me that they would bother. Then upgraded to 40 through the fedora upgrade path. All painless.

I was fully prepared to make a windows live USB just to flash the bios/firmware.

I just bought a Thinkpad x1 carbon preloaded with Fedora and it’s pretty fantastic.

I put a couple use cases above on another comment, but as I’m reading through these another one popped into my head. I have a steamdeck with controllers as my media center, the other day I was playing a game and wanted to look something up on the wiki for it. I got it done on my phone but it was a ton of pinch zoom, search page and it was just tedious. So add that to the use cases.

As for macos, I am not in the apple ecosystem at all, I use a macbook air for my day job and it’s serviceable but I’m just a linux guy really. If I can get KDE on it, then even better. I’ve been using KDE since slackware in the late 90’s.

The macbook air is handy though, when I have to go to the office (occasional) I don’t have to charge it and it’s small enough to carry everywhere.

Being honest here, I actually went down the chromebook route first but then I realized that to get a chromebook that uses a snapdragon cpu, and has a small formfactor, with linux support was actually a difficult combo, and if I did find one, there is a lenvo thinkpad for example, it was like $1000 or so.

Thanks

Funny you ask, I was trying to book an appointment for a local company on my phone the other day and it wasn’t rendering properly. It’s crazy to me in this day and age but it seems that there are still companies that have non mobile friendly websites. It’s happened a lot lately too, tried to order some food and the site used it’s own process for delivery, and didn’t render worth a crap on mobile. Basically a ton of little reasons why I want something like I describe.

Furiously taking notes… Not really though, while substack has some annoying behavior, setting a paywall is up the the writer. I turned it off.