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Any suggestions for cheap but decent laptops for coding?
  • I recommend looking for refurbished laptops. As they'd give you better bang for buck. If you do indeed to with refurbished laptop, check everything thoroughly before buying including how long the battery lasts and if the display has any deffects.

  • Linux is still not ready to replace Windows
  • For media consumption, internet browsing etc, Linux is more than ready to replace Windows. However, problems do arise in exotic hardware combinations, but these days, this is the exception rather than the norm.

  • 50 million rendered polygons vs one spicy 4.2MB boi
  • As far as my understanding goes, Zed uses the GPU only for rendering things on screen. And from what I've heard, most editors do that. I don't understand why Zed uses that as a key marketing point

  • The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
  • I want more entities to switch to Linux like that, but that's unlikely in the near future. Most offices have Windows professional or enterprise (LTSC) which don't have most of the bullshit regular Windows has.

  • Logitech being Logitech
  • Yes. And I think some high end mouses can store multiple preset settings in memory to switch on the fly without requiring any software. Moreover, there are some scenarios in which you can't install any software, in an office-issued computer or in a eSports tournament computer.

  • Logitech being Logitech
  • Their "Onboard memory manager" software for their mouses is actually pretty good. It's only 10MB in size and doesn't require any installation. The only downside is that I had to "enable" the onboard memory of my mouse by first installing their usual crap software.

  • Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

    Additionally, what changes are necessary for you to be able to use Linux full time?

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