Baron von Fajita

Newer Dells have removed the s3 deep sleep. I believe the cutoff is between Intel 11th gen and 12th gen in (at least) Latitudes. I have a i7 12th gen that sucks at sleep, but an i5 8th gen that sleeps well.

“Hello, fellow humans.”

We only elect the best here in the USA. Hey, VA, thanks for taking the heat off our idiots here in AR. We are collectively stupid here in the US south. We need a fresh wave of Darwinism down here to wash out the stupid.

This is 100% what is wrong with the US economy. A non-profit is concerned with money over their product/service. We are fucked.

I always look for the companies that are advertising heavily. If we could see their books, I’d say the ones that spend more on marketing than engineering, product, and ops are likely the ones who will enshittify, eventually. They are building the product or service to sell later so they are trying to drum up users and corner the market.

Unfortunately, this is just about everything in the US now.

I gave snaps a fair shake as well. I’ve never been beholden to any specific distro or family line either so I’ve always been open for new and better. I just struggled with the lock-in and the slower responsiveness.

I didn’t have much trouble with updates on the Arch side but I saw it more as an accomplishment than a daily driver. I did run it for a few years on an older system where I needed to squeeze out efficiency. I haven’t been one of those users that needed to tweak everything always for a long time.

I also appreciate the delineation between regular updates and security updates. I did my biweekly system updates for work yesterday and that delineation helps me gauge the time it will take before pressing enter.

That’s my only concern with running pure Arch. I like my computer to be usable. I’m well beyond the state where I want to spend more time tinkering and repairing than using. I do like the idea of rolling release but not bleeding edge (i.e., released 5 minutes ago). Also, I removed snaps from my Kubuntu instance first thing.

That makes sense. I have found a new love for KDE. I had been a GNOME user for years before but I went with Pop_OS for a bit before feeling like that was a bit old. I moved over to Kubuntu for the new Plasma 6 hotness and I really like it. I’ve run Arch before and wasn’t really keen on the instability so I haven’t delved into any of the derivatives yet, although they are looking nice these days. Maybe I’ll dip my toes in those waters soon. I’m still in a test phase for full-time desktop Linux, though. I’m probably going to buy a Tuxedo laptop soon and I plan to give their OS a try with the purchase.

What are you running now that you’ve moved on from Kubuntu?

Someone with an MBA denied a security expenditure along the way and this is what they got.

Thanks for posting this! As an American who dislikes the big tech here, these are helpful in knowing what’s beyond our borders. I had never heard of Infomaniak before you posted! I currently use Proton but I’m not happy with the ability of their calendar and contacts to integrate with my underlying system. I’ve also been looking at mailbox.org to expand my capabilities there.