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brie_cheese@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

i think it heavily depends on the person’s use case. if someone is doing web browsing and maybe making a couple word documents, the learning curve is negligible. also, you dont need to use BASH to do most things, it’s 2026. most anything you can think of, you can do via GUI.

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artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It doesn’t matter what the usecase is if the Wifi or speakers or camera don’t work.

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- brie_cheese@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  that still pertains to usercase. if a user has a thinkpad the whole shebang is gonna work ootb. if you cant research ‘is my laptop compatible with [os]’, stick to iphones.
  
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- Attacker94@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That Is almost always a hardware compatibility issue, if you get a machine that is specifically meant for Linux, even the jankiest of distros will not have all but the last issue, and for the last one if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.
  
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  - artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    if you get a machine that is specifically meant for Linux
    
    LOL those are all like $2k
    
    if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.
    
    I don’t think you understand what this is…
    
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    brie_cheese@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    LOL those are all like $2k
    
    I’m typing this message from a 16-year-old ThinkPad T410 running Linux flawlessly. cost 60CAD. any ThinkPad will run Linux like a dream, and the newer ones are like, $200-600 second-hand, depending on how fancy you want it to be.
    
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    Attacker94@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    LOL those are all like $2k I’ll give you that if you want it officially supported they tend to come with those price tags, although i did find this one which is officially supporting linux at the midrange price tag Laptop, I mainly mean that the individual components are supported which you could determine through a little bit of research, but generally speaking if you don’t want to pay the premium, you should be prepared for a little bit of trouble shooting, but normally it is only for the webcam nowadays. Overall, I have changed the os on many of my laptops, and they have always either had no missing functionality after installation or had a forum that explained how to fix its issues that was a one and done fix.
    
    if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.I don’t think you understand what this is…
    
    Could you be more specific about what you mean? I don’t think I claimed anything that would be out of the purview of fractional scaling.
    
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