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Cake day: May 12th, 2024

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  • I direct Mac users to Ubuntu/GNOME and Windows users to KDE or Mint/Cinnamon.

    That said I absolutely hate how stock GNOME doesn’t have an app drawer. People defend it, but I can’t get over not knowing what apps are open and the extra clicks it takes if you’re mouse navigating, as well as all the extra animations if you do go that route. And this is from someone that attempts to touch the mouse as little as possible. Not a fan of having to add a 3rd party extension for this. Reason I’m on KDE full-time now.








  • Dell XPS 13 checks all your boxes except good speakers.

    I have the XPS 15 9510 model. Intel 13th gen i7, backlit keyboard, great trackpad, sleek design. It came with 16GB ram but I replaced with 32.

    I bought it “refurb” on eBay last May SPECIFICALLY because I wanted the most Mac-like PC. Running Arch Linux from day one and it’s been rock solid and super fast. The speakers aren’t great and the mic is pretty bad. But I usually use headphones or external speakers when docked.

    I honestly am very happy with it and it was only like $550.

    I spent a bunch of time before this comparing new computers; between Thinkbooks, Framework, Tuxedo, XPS. In the end I decided what I wanted didn’t require it to be new. I was only concerned about degraded battery but I can replace that myself when the time comes.

    I don’t want to plug the seller but they’re constantly selling these on eBay so you’ll probably see them if you search.

    Side note I disabled the NVIDIA GPU and only use the Intel iGPU which has saved a lot of battery.





  • magguzu@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlManjaro on Macbook
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    9 months ago

    I feel like I’m taking crazy pills whenever I see people talking about running any Linux distro on a Mac. Every time I try it’s a bad time with driver support. And yes I used t2linux, most recently with Ubuntu. It came with nonfunctional sleep mode (apparently a problem since Sonoma), a very buggy Bluetooth controller and a very janky feeling cursor movement with the trackpad. Also my mic volume was super low on Zoom calls.

    What am I missing?





  • The problem with the send to Kindle option is email attachment size limit. For books it’s fine but manga and comics are usually too big.

    My Kindle is old enough that I was able to jailbreak it and install KOReader so I can just download from my Calibre server directly via OPDS. Otherwise if it’s too big for email you’ll have to do it over USB I think.