That is what I’m using on a 2012 MacBook Pro with some upgrades.
It works really well except for when there is an update to the wifi broadcom drivers. Then I have to use my phone to provide internet through USB.
Otherwise it’s a beast but gaming is out of the question.
Thanks, I might try it some day then👍
Oh that’s interesting.
Sounds complicated but doable. Have you ever used it?
I guess most people would not only want to easily reinstall all their apps, but also the settings related to them.
Sadly that’s the difficult part.
When I see how much time it takes me to have all my calendar and settings in Thunderbird.
Luckily for Thunderbird you can save your profile if everything takes less than 2gb, but it’s still a hassle to find a way to backup every program.
Yes I heard about it but apparently NixOS is quite complex and not accessible to someone like me who considers himself as an eternal Linux newbie.
I’ve never tried an immutable OS, but I’d love if the ability to do system backups and redeploy to another computer was just part of any OS.
Especially when Linux encourages you to distro hopp.
Clonezilla is great but it already happened to me that one backup wasn’t deployable on another (really old) computer
I’m looking forward to getting an old ARM computer and installing Linux without any worry one day🤞
Sadly I don’t think you have these in gaming mode.
Maybe in desktop mode though since Steam OS uses KDE.
Agreed, but carrying two phones, charging them and paying for them would be too annoying and wasteful.
But I know that my employer could see a lot of my infos if he wanted to. Luckily I trust my employer way more than all these companies like Apple or Google who already have acces to our data.
Yeah and let’s not forget that depending on your job it’s doable.
My employer is giving me an iphone so I can’t use anything else except if I had a second phone, which would be really annoying for me.
Apple is bad, but still probably better than Google when it comes to privacy.
Good news even if it might not help with the usershare👍
Well if it means thst every computer company is starting to make it difficult to change your OS, it’s worrying.
It’s also good that nowadays you have companies like Tuxedo, Slimbook and others, but I prefer recycling old computers given the choice.
My god your install process sounded really difficult.
This coming from someone running a Surface Go 1 and MacBook Pro 2012 which weren’t really linux friendly for the install process.
In the future, I’ll probably only get used devices as I’m kind of anti consumerism, but I’ll be careful to always get something reslly Linux friendly.
My last experience with anything from Dell was my first Linux install in the 00’s and it was really easy. I guess Dell has regressed in this regard.
Anyway welcome to Linux!
Oh it looks cool! Great way to recycle something👍
Well thanks a lot. I guess the notification will be coming in the future🤞
Oh I’ve never heard of the Nix configuration tool. I might look into it when the need arises.
Thanks for these answers.
About the « deck verified » part, I was only seeing it on the Deck, but now that I’ve checked it’s kind of hidden when you go to the store with Firefox. So that’s one problem solved.
Yeah for now I’ve been using a lot before buying games, but it didn’t give me any information about all of my questions.
Still it’s a great ressource for any compatibility issue.
I’d say it should even be implemented into Steam OS without ressorting to a plugin.
I tried running Frostpunk 1 on the MacBook Pro 2012 (upgraded with an SSD and 16gb of Ram) and it wouldn’t boot despite the fact that it’s an old game and that I tried some special settings and commands.
I guess you can still play some games on ot, but many are out of reach, even some of the ones you’d think would be playable…