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   Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 08:16:35 JST Rusty Crab
   You know, whatever Xubuntu does works literally perfect for me on whatever computer ive ever run it on. I wonder what would happen if I installed xubuntu and replaced xfce with KDE :marseyhmm:
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 08:16:31 JST Rusty Crab

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     @bronze xubuntu has never given me one single problem in 4 years. It's "just works" but "I actually mean it and not handwaving a bunch of serious issues this time". The only issue is that the desktop is just a bit too primitive.
     
     No I am not installing arch. It's a gigantic time sink.
     
     I actually haven't had good luck with vanilla Ubuntu either. That means that either:
     - gnome (and unity) are causing the fuckups
     or
     - the configuration that ships with Ubuntu/Kubuntu is garbage and fucking up my system.
     
     Recently I tried gnome on a different distro and it seemed to work pretty well, which leads me to believe that MAYBE it's something in vanilla Ubuntu that xubuntu is somehow fixing.
     
     I admit it's a long shot but xunbuntu has been so good to me that I think it's the closest shot I have to getting a working comf distro.
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     bronze (bronze@pl.kitsunemimi.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 08:16:32 JST bronze

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     >kubuntu
     >Ubuntu
     I know you love them, but they're garbage IMO
     Even KDE Neon, which is supposedly good, is Ubuntu based and also garbage
     I'd try KDE out on arch / artix, its rolling release and should have the latest features + bug fixes
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 08:16:33 JST Rusty Crab

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     @bronze yeah but every time o have tried to use it (once with Ubuntu and once on kubuntu) it shits itself and dies and can't complete simple tasks without some complication. Xubuntu is the only distro that never once gave me any trouble so I am am wondering if they have some magical parameters they're setting that could work for me in combination with KDE
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     bronze (bronze@pl.kitsunemimi.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 08:16:34 JST bronze

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     @RustyCrab you'd be even comfier with KDE :comfy_fox:
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:00:52 JST Pawlicker

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     • bronze
     @djsumdog @RustyCrab @bronze @skylar the problem with servers is (don't ask me how I know this), many are custom builds for companies like AWS that at the end of their life, go right to a secured ewaste center (sometimes the same company who built them) for disposal.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:00:53 JST djsumdog

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     • Pawlicker
     Ampere has desktop competitors to the Apple M-chips for the Linux devs out there, that come in 64/128 core versions:
     
     https://www.ipi.wiki/products/com-hpc-ampere-altra
     
     https://www.ipi.wiki/products/ampere-altra-developer-platform
     
     Not cheap, but not insane like the POWER boards
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:00:55 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     @RustyCrab @PurpCat @bronze the CPU is supposedly pretty good at single thread performance
     but it's their own special snowflake ARM-whatever architecture so you can only ever use the software Tim Apple allows folks to compile for it with an xcode loicense
     the only thing apple's done right on their computers was the screen. had it not been for the retina macbooks, every laptop on earth would still have some piece of shit 1366x768 display.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:00:56 JST Rusty Crab

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     @skylar @PurpCat @bronze honestly if macs had acceptable hardware I would strongly consider one, but they don't
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:00:57 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     @bronze @PurpCat @RustyCrab but it can't run operating systems for heterosexuals
     i want to see fox GIRLS not fox BOYS
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     bronze (bronze@pl.kitsunemimi.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:00:58 JST bronze

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     @PurpCat @RustyCrab
     wait on second thought...
     come home white man!
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:00:59 JST Rusty Crab

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     @bronze it's a shame because KDE legitimately is the best looking desktop out there of any OS imo. It's just every time ive installed it and then tried to copy a big file it shits itself.
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:00:59 JST Pawlicker

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     @RustyCrab @bronze oh yeah on the topic of MacBooks a few days ago I went to micro center
     The M3 pros do have fans as seen on ifixit but they actually put them in sane places (pro on the left)
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     bronze (bronze@pl.kitsunemimi.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:01:00 JST bronze

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     @RustyCrab yeah, I would stick with XFCE then. Ubuntu anything with KDE has always been utter trash in my experience and you will not have a good time with that either.
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:06:12 JST Pawlicker

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     @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @bronze @skylar the issue with games is when you render them low res and scale them up, it looks like you're playing games on an Xbox on a wal-mart TV.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@5dollah.click)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:06:13 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @skylar @PurpCat @RustyCrab @bronze for tastes, colors
     i run my laptop at fractional scaling,.so it renders at 3072x1536 and battery impact is nonexistent. the extract impCt would come from games or video watching, but even then for games i just remder at half res and for video, stuff keeps getting more efficient
     i SNEED sharper fonts and icons and ui
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:06:14 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     @mischievoustomato @PurpCat @RustyCrab @bronze i would rather have 1600x1050 or 1920x1200. i like smol laptops, extra pixels just waste GPU power, and DPI scaling still doesn't play nice with all applications.
     bright enough to be usable in direct sunlight and viewable while wearing polarized sunglasses are nicer than extra pixels just to force folks to DPI scale
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:06:15 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     @PurpCat @RustyCrab @bronze at least you could find 1600x900 and 1920x1080 on the larger business laptops
     all consumer shit was 1366x768
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@5dollah.click)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:06:15 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @skylar @PurpCat @RustyCrab @bronze all laptops should have a minimum of 2560x1800 (1280x800 @ 2x scale) by now fucking hell
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 09:06:16 JST Pawlicker

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     @skylar @RustyCrab @bronze you mean business laptops that did the same thing for years?