blockmeifyoucan

This is brilliant!

Whataboutism doesn't help here and paper ruins the coffee anyway.

Even in case that is true - 1000 uses is about a year at 3 brews a day and my french press is still going strong after 15 years and I fail to see a reason why it wouldn't hold up another 15 years.

Do you have any sources on paper vs metal? It seems highly unlikely to me, that paper filters could be more environmentally friendly.

I suggest you actually read the article you posted.

"The death was not part of a "fad" for getting high"

This disingenuous argument the author is using should make you question bis other points too, even (especially) those you happen to agree with.

Science wins again.

Yes. All studies have limitations. You report them and interpret the results accordingly.

Can you please cite and link the relevant part?

I think you are misunderstanding.

In common Lisp you can call a regular function defined with defun as (foo "something"), but if bar is a variable containing a fuction you have to use (funcall bar " something"). I agree that this is weird and confusing.

If only you could see how entitled and childish you sound.

But I agree: with that mentality, please stay away from any free (as in freedom) software. Please continue paying MS to deal with you and your attitude. Nobody cares if YOU use linux, certainly not the community.

Making all vaccine testing data and study details publicly available might be a good start.

I bought a forged iron pan years ago because i got tired oft buying new teflon pans every x months. It's brilliant! Used only for frying (no tomato sauces etc) and with high initial heat it eventually non-sticks better than teflon and e.g. pancakes turn out perfect.

Thank you for the response. this helped me understand better how people come to conclusions like this.

You want to be able to buy bleeding edge hardware without checking for driver support and have it just work. That is important enough for you to prefer windows for this reason. Fair enough.

Something to think about: What do you think causes this situation that on day one windows has a stable driver and Linux doesn't? Could it have anything to do with the cooperation of the hardware vendor?

Assuming you actually wanted to run linux, would there be any way you as an end user could work around this problem? Is there anything people could do to improve the overall situation? Maybe something more helpful than puplicly complaining about experimental drivers being experimental?

It's ok if you don't care about this. But characterizing the story above as "linux has driver problems" strikes me as something between superficial and disengenious.

But yeah, you can't always blindly throw the newest Linux at the newest hardware and expect it to work. Free Software requires a a certain amount of taking responsibility for your own computing.

Damn, that sounds frustrating :/

Skylake

From this I gather that we are talking ~5 years ago?

First and foremost, sound. I tried to get mixing -- simultaneous playback from different programs

I remember this being a problem 10 years ago, but not since pulseaudio.

sleep / resume

I successfully use systemctl suspend a lot. But yeah, depends on the hardware, def. a pain point.

experimental support for the chipset [...] completely froze

Not sure what to respond to this. Experimental drivers are expected to be, well, experimental, as in highly unstable.

clipboard

Ok.

Thanks for the info, this will be helpful to know what to look out for when getting New hardware.

Can you expand on the driver problems you had? I keep reading this here but people never give actual examples.

I have 5.9 kernels running fine on two laptops with intel graphics. Have you investigated what exactly stopped your systems from booting?

Run a memtest86 and keep an eye on the temps during usage. This is not normal.

Are you running nvidia drivers?

Can you give examples of what you disliked in each of KDE, GNOME and XFCE?

Did you ever actually setup a graphical environment with WSL2?

I run one, which is why to me the irony feels reversed to what you probably meant. It's clumsy, slow and tedious to setup.

Advertising needs to go away. All moral arguments aside, humanity can no longer afford to spend so much energy on something with so little benefit.

Installed from AUR with yay, but there is no difference in convenience, yay teams, select package, enter. I don't remember for Skype and zoom, but iirc teams uses the deb package from MS under the hood. The point is that the necessary work to get it running has already been done by the community, so you can just install and use it.

I think the trick with Fedora is to know the release-schedule, give them about two weeks after the release to find and fix the worst bugs and then not wait too long to update. On my own workstation I also didn't have issues.

but I prefer that my computer just works without fuss so that I can do actual work

This is exactly the reason I run arch. I have repaired loads of colleagues fedora installs that broke during dist-upgrade. And I the two times I tried to dist-upgrade old ubuntu installs went catastrophically wrong.

With arch I update every day or once a week and don't have to worry.

If you need to use non-free software like Skype or Zoom you are more likely to find Ubuntu packages than Arch packages for it.

My experience has been exactly the opposite. Nowhere is it easier and as hassle free as on arch to run non-free and proprietary software without(!) depending in the vendor for distro specific packages that happen to work in your distro version.

Skype, zoom, msteams all install and work out of the box.