ExtremeUnicorn

…because I didn’t want to be a victim of the tech industry anymore.

When I had long hair, I would lay it beyond the pillow, not below my head, like that girl in the photo. That helped to some extent.

The problem is that Microsoft set seemingly arbitrary hardware requirenents to install Windows 11, it’s not about performance.

If you have a Kaby Lake or Ryzen 2000 system of any specs, you are already out of luck, no matter if you have 32 cores or 128G RAM.

But somehow, magically, a few Kaby Lake Microsoft Surface laptops are fine to run Windows 11, so those specific CPUs are cool. The rest (mostly desktops) is not.

Linnux?

Google.

I’m the same way, actually. Italian is a no-brainer because of all the pizzas and pastas and gelato, but the mediterranean cuisine is very rich and can be quite healthy as well. And Vietnamese food encompasses just a lot of the more spicy asian dishes to give a nice contrast, also love rice.

Amazing. Thanks.

Does any body have a link to that photo?

Maybe they are, in a way.

At least for Linux-Reaper:

Use Jack. Install the “Pulse Jack Module”, route Pulseaudio through Jack to simultaneously connect Reaper and everything else to the Jack System out. Always autostart Jack and use the Pulse Module “autoconnect” parameter as a startup script (QJackCtl helps here).

Should fix 1-3, 4 I’m not sure.

Well, that may be the case, but you made the claim that using a beginner-friendly distro solves all problems and I gave an anecdotal example of that not being the case. Macbooks have a substantial markt share, like it or not, and are subject to planned hardware obsolescense, so people will try to install Linux at some point.

Besides of all, this was not purely a hardware issue. Else, no configuration would have worked out. There were differences in the default configs of the distributions that caused this erratic behavior and it was not just a pulseaudio/pipewire thing.

That’s not true.

I’ve also had a lot of success on most hardware, but the worst device I ever touched was a 2016 Macbook (one of the last with normal ports) and that thing was a total mess.

Arch: Video, no sound. Debian: Sound, no video. Ubuntu: Everything works, reboot, nothing works.

Probably heavily related to hardware, but still, very inconsistent. I was never able to find the actual issue after weeks.

The final somewhat working configuration was Debian+Liquorix for the video firmware.

So no, it’s not guaranteed.

Ok, I suppose I misunderstood your comment. I thought it was about the actual lead kernel developers and not all Linux-related devs in general and thought to myself “Well, Torvalds is a married man and most other maintainers I’ve ever seen didn’t look that out of the ordinary”.

Again, not to take away anything from anybody, but maybe that explains my surprise to that comment.

Name me one, please.

No meant as a transphobic remark, to clarify. Just curiosity.

Not bad.

What riff?

Seems like a cheap excuse, the law doesn’t say specifically that.

But, of course, manufacturers like to lock down their devices as much as possible. And such laws play into their hands.

Since when is this the case?

Username totally checks out.

Backports are specifically tested for the purpose of being compatible with stable, so there should be no issues.

I can’t really comment on what what gaming desktops need, I feel like you could absolutely play games without the latest drivers at all times, but I don’t play any modern AAA games.

If you need bleeding edge software, then don’t install Debian, for sure. Or go unstable with all the potential issues.