@mcc I have a Dell, supplied with Ubuntu installed....

@mcc I have a Dell, supplied with Ubuntu installed. It's the most reliable machine I've ever used. It does more updates of firmware than I've known. If you self-installed, do you get them?

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Niall in Raglan :laserkiwi:

@woo @mcc replying so i get notifications... I'm interested to hear about this working Linux laptop anomaly!

9 July at 21:46 | Open on mastodon.nz

Andy Wootton

@Niall @mcc I don't talk about Linux much. It's just a tool I use. I had trouble with a machine which had Nvidea drivers. Updates would occasionally overwrite my working proprietary drivers with a useless FOSS driver and I'd need to fix it from the CLI, which I never learned particularly well.

9 July at 22:31 | Open on fosstodon.org

Niall in Raglan :laserkiwi:

@woo @mcc that's a bias problem! When we have something that just 'works' we tend not to shout about it. I'd love to be proprietary-free but I'm daunted by the work it seems to need.

9 July at 23:41 | Open on mastodon.nz

David Collantes 🪷

@woo @mcc I have a Dell i7, with 32GB and 1TB, running Ubuntu. Around 30 Chrome open tabs take the memory all the way to 96% utilisation. Can barely use the system. Same setup on macOS, on a 2015 Intel iMac with 16GB, runs very smooth. Year of the Linux desktop… yeah, right. 🤭

9 July at 23:49 | Open on weaknotes.com

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