Depends on your major. I’m a bio/ecology major and a lot of the tools I used were cross platform or web based.
Also the university I went to did have basic Linux instructions for certain things like connecting to printers and connecting to the internet.
Last year. Lucky me I have good water. I should do it again
They didn’t reinvent it, they just took a tv box chip and shoved it into a phone.
Edit: the soc that they are using is worse than the feature phone soc in my old Nokia from 2008. What the actual fuck.
Igpu was fantastic, when it worked. Single core performance was also good. I don’t have any 10th gen Intel devices to compare to. Both 10 nm and 14 NM.
So they.just reinvented the DVB-T tuner.
Edit: I looked it up and it’s literally just that. The fact they’re shoving it into feature phones is interesting.
I tried xubuntu when I was 14 on a live cd to get students admin access on our school laptops. Once I got my own machine, I kept it on windows 10 until it became unstable so I moved to Bunsenlabs, then Pop OS due to it’s dgpu. (Intel igpu, amd dgpu)
You can get around it a few ways. Some are drive agnostic, some aren’t. Also your drive might not be super affected by it. My dad’s Sony AIO PC didn’t have an issue ripping while a USB DVD drive I borrowed did.
Edit: the Sony AIO PC was also from 2012. It was running windows 7 when I did this.
Something to keep in mind is that Riplock is a thing. It will make DVD reads slower.
I looked up the model. It’s a 5400 rpm Hitachi travelstar. It’s SATA 2
It’s just a normal hdd.
It’s currently installing some stuff hence the 100% utilization.
And sorry for taking 50 years to get back to you
The 11th gen Intel cpus did not age well at all. They ran too hot, they were super inefficient at light work. They’d idle fine but as soon as you did something small, the fans would kick on and you suddenly had a half hour reduction in your battery life.
The M series laptops are fantastic and honestly, I don’t mind USB hubs as much. Also if your phone supports USB c display out, you can use it with that. Unless if it’s an iphone, then it’s kind of scuffed. It does work and I have gotten actual work done with it.
You have to be careful on the 80 series. They are either 7th gen Intel or 8th gen Intel. My sister has an i5-7200u t580. Also 8th gen is weird, I’ve been having issues with my pavilion trying to get it to run at base clock. I had to uninstall Intel thermald and run “throttled”, a GitHub script to run at base clock.
Also it’s the last generation of T series that has dual batteries, and a few gens later, they move to soldered ram.
E and L series ThinkPads tend to have upgradable ram. The build isn’t as good but the upgradability is something to keep in mind.
As for the specs and the lack of mentioning them, I agree.
Why would I talk about US prices/currency for a danish tech site?
If someone is looking for tech in Europe, it doesn’t make sense for me to use a US reference.
But wouldn’t mint have the same issues as Debian 12?
I checked LinuxPusher and I wouldn’t say they’re affordable. Their laptops are 2-3x the price of the same laptop running no OS on sites like eBay.de. For example, their cheapest T470 is 3000 krone, while the equivalent laptop on ebay is like 150 euro or 1120 krone.
I looked at a Thinkpad L14 G1, an elitebook 840 G5, and the dell 3060 Micro and it’s the same. Consistently 2x and higher markup.
Is that markup worth a 2 year warranty?
You could literally buy a second device if the first one kicks the bucket and still be out ahead monetarily.
If you want to slowly start using linux and already have a pc, make a portable install on any flash drive (I like external ssds for this exact reason) you want, and boot it. (ideally set the RealTimeIsUniversal registry entry in windows so Linux and windows don’t fuck up the bios time).
But would it fix the core issues that OP is having?
I should have mentioned this but usually stuff like this is planted in front of people’s houses etc. I wouldn’t expect a pine tree planted in one of those. Same with a palm tree.
I’m from Pittsburgh and there’s a lot of greenery projects and ecological restoration currently going on. Outside of the city, it’s very heavily wooded. But it’s slow progress.
Those giant algae tanks miss the large point of trees and their physical benefits and do feel like a tech bro solution looking for a problem.
A few reasons: Trees need a lot of space and the space underneath a sidewalk isn’t enough for long term life. They can die after like 30 years? This is tree dependent and location dependent.
Tree roots can destroy sidewalks making it harder for people to go over them. (Think people in wheel chairs)
Liability in terms of damage (have you seen trees after a storm?)
Yes but your mileage may vary. My pavilion x360 had okay out of the box support for it’s touchscreen. I don’t remember if tilt worked.
My touchscreen is currently busted and the hinges broke the case (and probably the digitizer) so I stopped using the convertible function of it.