Hey, but the deal is expired in 11 hours, are you gonna buy it for the lowest price in the universe? By the way, only one item (on the planet) left, hurry up plz.

I was able to run Apple AirPort Utility for managing my Apple AirPort Extreme router. It has no web interface, but an app for all Apple platforms, and Windows too. The Utility for Windows is slightly better than macOS or iOS (in my opinion). It works well, and I’m happy that by migrating to Linux I’m still able to manage my router. There’s no more routers from Apple, and there’s no more updates to the app either, so I’m happy it’d stay that way. Perhaps I needed some tiny tuning to run the app, I won’t recall now.

I have the article about it in my not deployed yet blog, so I’d link it, but I need to deploy it first. (Would take me some time.) I have more details there. But overall, it was good.

Also, I was able to run Pro100 software for 3D modelling of furniture for my friend. It was working well, I did that with Bottles since his Fedora installation was atomic (Silverblue). It was okay, almost as good as on Windows, with some tiny nuances.

I’m happy to see others telling about their apps they were successfully launching and working with. Personally, I’m very interested in the graphical stack (like Adobe or Affinity apps), but I haven’t tried them yet. I’ve seen someone has success of installing modern Photoshop, but no more than that.

Micro is somewhere there too.

While I’m not a fan of 8 GB RAM for a new laptop, I’ve used a Fedora Gnome system for a year or two, with just 4 GB RAM. I used it for simple tasks in a workshop, and it was a usable computer. It struggled only when I opened too many browser (Firefox) tabs. If I kept the browser tabs count low, it wasn’t that bad. Also, I used the same system with 8 GB RAM, and it was much much better. To the point you won’t really notice it’s something limiting. So, technically, 8 GB is plenty for an average light use.

Excuse me for not having too much to say besides everyone else in this thread. I just wanted to check-in and say something that I felt upvoting everyone isn’t enough. Wish you all the recovery you can get, and thank you for inspiring too. You’re doing great, at least your grammar is quite good for the situation. Cheers!

I’ve heard Vulkan really shines, but I had no chance to actually compare it apples to apples with Windows. (As I don’t use one.)

Sorry, I fed the troll, but I expect others might find the discussion valuable then.

It’s some low-end Intel i3 processor. Let’s say it’s something about 2 GHz, each core, with 2 or 4 cores. Sorry, I need to check it if you want the precise specs, but they don’t really matter.

It was super smooth, and considering that laptop basically a garbage (Nvidia GPU, which is not used in Linux, I use the integrated Intel one), it played quite well for me. It looks like the difference with Windows is not in its favour. It’s really easy to try it, especially if you have a spare hardware. Eg Dota 2 is free to play, so all you need is to install Steam and download the game. I use Fedora Silverblue, which I can recommend for an average user. (I use Arch on my primary laptop and PC.) Also, I’ve heard good things about Bazzitte, but I personally don’t like Linux distros based on other distros.

Also, I recommend avoiding Nvidia GPUs, unless it’s a high end very new card. (I have heard them being good.) Apart from that, Linux gaming is quite easy, especially if all your games are in Steam. It allows easy installation of things like Proton and is perfectly manageable by a non-pro user via graphical interface.

I’ve got a cheap old ten years old low-end laptop and didn’t know what to do about it. I installed Steam and played Half-Life 2 and Dota 2 (both aren’t very new, I know). They were very snappy. Also, I tried WarCraft 3 via Wine, and it was very good also. I didn’t know what else to test, but for the record Windows itself wasn’t very snappy with it.

If you’re not trolling and actually expecting some serious reply: no, it’s not a meme. It’s quite fast and playable. All the games that I tried were very playable.

Why both Netbird and ZeroTier? Don’t they conflict with each other?

Hey, what’s up with the bald’s man brows?! Don’t make be recall this for the rest of my life and wonder why!

I’ve been with Debian through 2000s and 2010s, and if you’re someone not knowing this foss vs proprietary thing, it’s quite difficult to explain why there’s no WiFi drivers and that you need to do some complex hoops to get this working. I had no WiFi on most laptops I interacted with, all the time.

However, fair to say that just this week I had a Fedora installation for a friend’s MacBook from 2009, and we faced no WiFi thing either. Had to install Broadcom drivers separately. So, I myself understand why there’s no drivers included, but it’s not what’s easy to explain this to someone migrating off Windows. Otherwise Debian is good, but I use it only for single board computers.

Obsolete. No WiFi drivers ever. (Might be false by now.) Always breaks during major upgrades (that’s only my experience, so I could be wrong here too). But hey, it’s obsolete!

Don’t break Debian, they say.

C’mon, is it news? Isn’t that the reason we’re all here?

Here’s my story on Medium about my journey from Reddit, to X, to Substack! Like and subscribe guys!

Who believed the monkey is able to even count to 24? It’s a miracle it can talk, if we can call the word salad as talk.

And yeah, Hong Kong is cool! I was there before the protests, so I’m not aware how different it is now. I guess it’s still the same for an average tourist though.

Well, it’s just a very small and narrow rice cooker you can have in your backpack while travelling. It’s a fat thermos size, and you can cook a portion for two with it. A regular rice cooker is just big and isn’t comfortable to carry while travelling.

Mostly in Thailand, but also Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, where I travelled to. I’ve bought a portable tiny rice cooker in Hong Kong, to be able to keep it in my backpack. Never used! So, I actually brought two rice cookers back home! I really forgot about the tiny one.

These days I do rice or other similar dishes in a regular pot, and it’s the same to me, more or so. Perhaps that’s just skill, I don’t know. Maybe I’m missing something and not noticing.