This is it. Exactly it. Internal IT management wants a good, centrally managed system to lock down and control corporate devices. Heck, corporations often even contract this task (and help desk) to management companies.

Let’s assume the tools and the experts are there to perform these remote management shenanigans, after this it only comes to “money talks”. Don’t have to replace a 2-4yo laptop with a new one if the old one still performs fine for another 2-4 years. So then you have to weigh the cost of expertise against slower amortization.

My company disabled VPN access for anything but macOS and Win11. Because even though the VPN we use is mandated to be used with a closed source app, and the app has a Linux version, the IT dudes couldn’t exit vim when asked to manually edit /etc/environment

I disagree. Majority of average office workers do not use CAD software. It’s not a hurdle to widespread adoption.

Whatever you do, don’t switch to the react start menu OS.

Stay on win10 with an ltsc version, or don’t. Get a second SSD or your crotch goblins mom’s laptop that you install Fedora, LMDE or another “easy” distro on to experiment with. Either way, you are not in a rush. Win10 support ending is not as imminent.

Honestly, at 1.5 months it’s hard. Really hard. But once you get the pattern down and sleep schedule starts stabilizing, say 4-6 months in, it may be your most productive time when you know the kid is asleep for the next few hours.

This is how I’ve learned to solder and build mechanical keyboards during the first kid hitting that age# and ditched ms shit for Linux during the second. There’s always other challenges, but not having to deal with a user hostile OS reduces stress tremendously.

It’s a hate group and Valve is caving to them.

• Good keyboard with text navigation keys (Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down) and a sensible layout: delete at the top right, no stupid replacement of normal modifier keys with fingerprint readers or copilot keys, no tiny arrow keys, etc.
• Good touchpad that’s precise, doesn’t lag, and allows clicking on most or all of the total area

I don’t think these should be that important. Even if one uses a single device for every need in the form of a laptop, one can still attach a keyboard and mouse to it. The worst customizable keyboard and wireless mouse will still be better than whatever the laptop has built in.

I think they mean the automated party queueing and match making systems, which takes out the social aspects from MMOs altogether.

They’ve tried, they’ve listened, they’ve not gone forward with the implementation, apologized and refunded and everyone else moved on.

Heroic launcher takes care of both GOG and Epic, no worries.

I don’t know kubuntu that well, just be aware that certain graphics cards will require a more bleeding edge distro. People have been swearing by Bazzite, CachyOS and Nobara lately.

I use Arch btw

I don’t understand your argument. 100% of my library works under Linux. In fact based on protondb’s ratings, half of them don’t even require me to do anything (this is excluding titles that run native on Linux):

For the half that requires “tinkering” it literally means adding one well documented argument to the command line to make it run smoothly.

The benefits of Linux far outweigh the cons of having to suffer the shitshow that is windows.

I don’t have issues you are describing with flameshot, however a clipboard manager greatly enhanced the copy-ability between apps and certain websites (looking at you JIRA and Slack), including when the source is flameshot.

They could also just say “screw this” and invest in the excellent Heroic Games Launcher (just like CDPR/GOG did to some extent).

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Microsoft is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, as shown by the recent outburst of employees working on tools used by Zionists to perpetuate apartheid in Israel’s territories.

Here, someone gave more details:

https://lemmy.ca/comment/16914741

No. It’s randomly sampled supposedly.

Recent reference cards for AMD were actually built by Sapphire from what I was told.

So the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT was their reference card basically. And it acts like that, a very solid card.

I’ve switched from a 670 to a 9070 XT last week, and I have to say I am enjoying all the local coop in UWQHD with my family that were barred to me before due to old nvidia drivers or lack of fps. Turns out my wife is a natural talent at overcooked.

Hey, I’m in the same boat. Gigabyte GTX 670. Wayland was a sluggish mess, and same goes for nouveau with X11.

I bit the bullet after eight months of running Arch like this, and experimenting around with newer iGPUs in laptops, and bought a new radeon finally. Time to retire this ancient piece of tech.

Cause of death: Linux Mint allergy.

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I thought “Meta” was AltGr and Super is the “windows key”.