Doesn’t matter what DE it is.
Doesn’t matter what DE it is.
Yes, and it’s a standard group anymore, which is why something is up with these folks saying this affects them.
Then your account is not part of the proper groups to control NetworkManager as integrated in Gnome. That’s on you.
Yeah, what in the hell is that all about. I assume they don’t mean the chips, but they should know to qualify that 🤣
This is old as hell, and on a locked down account. You don’t need restrictions like this for a personal use machine, and a base install of any distro wouldn’t have this type of issue whatsoever. It is not a modern concern.
That is not a thing in userspace. No idea what you’re even alluding to here.
And it just doesn’t fucking work.
Any of them. Just don’t give the root password.
SMART status isn’t reliable because it can be altered. Plausible deniability is how most of these places operate, which is why you are disclaimers all over the place on those listings, and rarely do you find a seller who will swap out a bad drive after 30 days. That’s the point.
Read the comment and the link…has nothing to do with keepass
If it’s coming from eBay, or doesn’t have a warranty, don’t trust it. If those that you mention have a warranty, then you’re hopefully covered in those terms.
No…you’re talking about news from the past few weeks. I’m talking about the reseller market in general and the way it behaves.
Source: adjacent industry experience dealing with these people.
Moreover, the article you’re referencing has nothing to do with what I posted, so not even sure why you’re talking about it here. There is zero correlation with what I said, you just assumed that was what I was referencing because… I’m not sure.
There’s lots of shady things happening in the HDD resale space, so be weary. Most of what gets resold are datacenter drives that have hit a max number of hours and are pulled on that alone. Not because they aren’t still working, but because they don’t want to risk it. This number varies from place to place, and is only a preventative measure to pull them from service before they fail.
That being said… understand that this is what you’re likely buying.
For the shady bits: resellers frequently pull some tricks to obfuscate the real state of the drives including:
All of this culminating in a real grab bag of things you probably don’t want to mess with. If you were buying, say, 10 drives to host a bunch of junk you don’t care about, it may be worth the risk. Otherwise, read what I said above and understood what you’re likely to get.
If you just want cheaper than retail drives, get factory refurbished drives directly from the manufacturer that carry a warranty. You’ll feel better about it.
CS6 is platinum in Wine as well, so wouldn’t expect any issues there if they want to run it that way.
Not really unless you’re hyper-focused on a very specific type of performance. Even then, you can always enable/disable whatever bits and pieces because it’s all software, and it’s all open. There are guides or threads for absolutely everything out there. A distro only organizes it simpler on base install to make it easier ootb.
Linux itself does not do any data collection. Never heard of any distro enabling anything by default, and you can rip it right out anyway if you want, though it’s more work. If you’re concerned about this though, stay away from Ubuntu, as that is the one corporate backed distro that is more likely to lean into this.
Fedora is probably what you want. It’s taken over the helm Ubuntu used to have as the default to try. Clean, simple, no bullshit, huge community.
Linux, no, but you’re conflating a few things. Linux is the kernel. The desktop you choose to run is what does the graphical session management. Both KDE and Gnome are fine with this, though there is an argument that KDE is a tad ahead in this realm with their VRR implementation.
Gnome is more akin to MacOS. KDE is more Windows-like (but still not at all). Try both on a liveUSB for a bit and see which you like.
At the end of the day you can run practically anything on a liveUSB for as long as you want before installing, even games (within reason). Be comfortable in the knowledge that if there is something you don’t like about a particular thing, you can change it to act however you want. Like I said above, it’s all just software. It’s going to be a little tough coming from a Windows-centric world to realize this at first, but I assure you, installing and running one distro absolutely does not lock you into anything at all because you can just install and remove absolutely everything.
Now, hardware compatibility is a different story. The Linux kernel itself is what does all the hardware management, so if your hardware is too new, there may not be full support for a particular thing. It sounds like you’re on an older machine though, so unless it’s got some really obscure hardware in it, everything should be detected and load straight out of the box. Again, try a few liveUSB runs and make sure, it’s that simple.
Just because of the amount of heat needed to produce a meaningful amount of energy. Just looking at recent news on TPV, and it looks like newer tech is only getting about 40% conversion efficiency, which is not super great.
The real problem with TPV is the type of heat it can use, which just from looking is a minimum of 1900 C/3450 F. This is because, like solar, it’s capturing photons the heat source kicks out, then “traps” them and runs them down a wire to store someplace (I’m over simplifying this of course).
To use it as this company plans, need to radiate heat from many sources to one central location to get those kinds of temps, which is incredibly challenging . It’s not like you could just slap a bunch of small capture points together from a large number of kinda hot things and batch them together.
Why are all of these people so stupid?
Pretty sure it’s why humanity seems to have lost its fucking mind.
Cachy - you might have some extra hoops to jump through. The performance difference is negligible for just desktop usage.
PopOS - no real benefit unless you’re running Nvidia, and then it’s only for the moderately useful graphics switching stuff.
You sound like you want Fedora for simplicity’s sake, honestly. There’s really no other major performance differences between desktop distros. Any tunings that one has you can just apply to another if you know their benefits.