Not sure why your comment was downvoted, you’re actually correct, Windows is got better battery life. The only reason I’m not running it on this MacBook is an unpatched bug in the Intel HD Graphics driver that prevents it from working with newer Windows versions on MacBooks with this specific display adapter.

Still far from ideal, though. My 2017 MacBook Air with a severely degraded battery lasts 4 hours on macOS, but only 2.5h on Ubuntu 24.04 using the power saving profile - and that’s with less intensive usage, as macOS keeps rendering gaussian blurs everywhere and launchpad and spotlight and all those annoying services.

Hello there! I love lemmy.world - I moderate communities such as /c/Minecraft and /c/Relationship_Advice and will always be onboard for improving our platforms and reaching more people.

I also do not personally believe in yet another slicing of the communities into different platforms, and if Sublinks aren’t integrated into Lemmy - requiring new communities or separate accounts - I will not be following along. Of course, somebody else could always take over my communities in that event, but I just wanted to let out my opinion on this.

You might not remember specific details during that whole jump in workload, but during the first week of Reddit migration, some moderators from communities that fought really hard to build an user base migrated here - one for menopausal women in particular caught my eye, as the moderator did everything in her power to migrate users who weren’t tech savvy to a whole new platform. The reason this effort didn’t work and most of these communities reverted back was the extreme fragmentation and confusing nature of the early Fediverse. If, for whatever reason, we add yet another layer we are explicitly saying we only care about esse of use for tech savvy programmers. This is a fine stance to have, but make it clear and explicit if that’s the case.

As a final addendum, the political beliefs of the Lemmy developers never harmed any of the several opposition communities or servers - if that’s the root of the matter, I’m even more disappointed.

Still, as always, I will support the .world family of servers and there’s simply nobody quite as good, competent and dedicated as this team in the Fediverse.

For a few packages, yes. You can change this behavior, but there’s no GUI for it.

Considering I haven’t claimed all ChromeOS applications are browser applets, I’m not sure what you expect as a reply.

I’m aware. Changes absolutely nothing about what I said.

Yes. I’m fully aware that after years of trying to force Chrome Web Store apps and facing several jailbreaks, Google reluctantly added Linux compatibility - limited to ChromeOS verified products, unless you’re willing to use third party non-official ways of triggering access to the CLI.

Not sure why you believe that’s somehow invalidating my comment though.

I will not accept a world where applications are just browser applets. I do not care how advanced your browser is or how much your CPU is optimized for JavaScript, I will not run web apps, I will die running an outdated version of Hotdog Linux and Vim isolated from the world but I will not install your app web or allow Chrome Web Services to run in the background.

Eh, I get what you mean but not really. This person didn’t try Arch or some weirdly specific distro.

Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and derivatives all promise to be full desktop solutions to regular users, mostly domestic, some enterprise. And if that’s the promise, you don’t have to have a deep understanding of Linux or even PCs to use them - go ask Mac users what kernel they’re running or what a system daemon is, yet they can use their systems just fine.

If Fedora promises to be a good all purpose distro, having the majority of potential users not able to easily install GPU drivers because “it’s philosophically against our distro to have a simple toggle for proprietary drivers” is just a terrible choice, no getting around that, even if a more experienced user with the right knowledge could install said drivers in less than 5 minutes.

I love LibreOffice. Often when it’s mentioned I’ve seen people with the opposite sentiment, but it never caused me any trouble and I really enjoy the small tabs option for the interface.

Microsoft Office has once decided to take my locally created file, shove it somewhere in OneDrive, then revert it to the state it was 24 hours prior - I couldn’t recover the newer version. Guess which software never deleted my files? LibreOffice.

Arch users overreacting to a meme is not helping refute it. I use arch, btw.

Having too drives is sometimes not enough, either. I have no idea why, but anytime Windows install for the first time or goes through a major update (not the small security patches, but the periodic feature releases) there’s a random D20 dice throw to determine if it will randomly decide to create the bootloader and recovery partitions in another drive, even though your main installation isn’t there.

I kid you not, Windows 10 once decided that my external SSD enclosure was the best place to put the bootloader.

Need? No. Are though? Please mommy

Sneaky mfs trying to get me to use systemd by exploring my female domination fetish

Oh, is that true? I was told nomodeset was equivalent to using Windows’ basic display adapter, as in, no hardware acceleration for video decoding, the CPU being responsible for rasterization and composition, and so on. If that’s not true, I might go to Debian. As you can see, I’m a noob, so please do explain - I would be happier with Debian.

Not dead dead, just made by a third party and at around ~83% capacity compared to new. Every system works fine, just with the lesser battery duration as expected. MacOS will freak out though and alert about the battery, which is why I assume it’s some kind of genuine part restriction

You’re correct about Intel HD graphics being everywhere. But the bug only affects MacBooks with internal display adapters, not general laptops, which is why it’s not more widespread. You can find a lot of people facing this issue on Macs though, it affects the HD Graphics 4000 family too.

Could be, though I have zero idea on how to check. All I know is that I can boot the installers (mostly on safe graphics mode), and I can install the operating systems, but they will always turn to a black screen after the initial splash animation unless I boot up grub and edit the parameters to include “nomodeset”.

Drivers for desktops are pretty much a non-issue on Windows, in fact, most will be installed via the internet before you even boot the desktop for the first time.

Drivers for gaming laptops are a nightmare on Windows, and you’ll probably have to chase weird slow pages in the manufacturer’s website to perhaps find 4 packages that might contain the driver you want.

If I use the provided repos, the software is no longer compatible - the .deb conflicts with the packages in the main repos.

Compare it to Windows, where I don’t need to explain to my boss why installing a tool everyone uses made me have to go away for 2 hours. I just download the .exe and I don’t ever care about a “DLL conflict” from any repos whatsoever.