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[–] Quik 9 points 1 month ago

Einfach beides Scheiße finden ✅

(nicht gleich Scheiße natürlich :/)

[–] Quik 2 points 1 month ago

I live in a bike friendly area of a big German city with good public transit — all of which doesn't matter because the nearest grocery store is less than 50m away from where I'm currently sitting in the apartment...

You're not unreasonable, having good access to basic goods and services is one of the main factors for general quality of life.

[–] Quik 1 points 1 month ago

Ideally, find a job for your husband in an American/international company with an office in Germany or allows working remotely all the time. Ideally you'd find such a job before even moving here. This is the only realistic perspective I know of to get a higher paying job without being pretty much fluent in German (which is hard).

I have seen this work with North and South Americans.

[–] Quik 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wish you luck ;)

[–] Quik 10 points 1 month ago

Upvoted for touching dick story

We are not the same

[–] Quik 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, you'd have to do systemctl --user

[–] Quik 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Actually, I'd argue the soft size is also important, but smaller is actually better for storage...

[–] Quik 12 points 1 month ago

An ever sadder becoming "bingo"

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[–] Quik 11 points 1 month ago

As other people noted, Bazzite/Fedora Silverblue can absolutely bite you in the foot if you leave the "normal use cases" — and if you're not just gaming on the device, you sooner or later will. All of this is solvable and IMO worth it, but probably not great for a beginner trying to become more knowledgeable.

Tldr good for absolute beginners, good for "experts" (in both cases because it very rarely gets in your way/breaks)

[–] Quik 43 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Bazzite is a Fedora Atomic based immutable distro focused on gaming, this means...

  • out of the box support for Nvidia cards
  • ships with a lot of useful gaming utilities
  • very hard to break as you should primarily be installing Flatpaks and can do rollbacks

Basically all modern Linux distros have virtualization support, so does Bazzite, of course. Actual performance differences between distros is also negligible, so feel free to choose whatever you like.

https://bazzite.gg/ if you're interested.

 

Hi, I've been searching for a Linux tablet/convertible to use at school and university for quite a while and would like to hear your recommendations, if you have any.

I have a pretty strict set of requirements, those are:

  • 6GB RAM
  • 4 core CPU
  • stylus support
  • magnetic keyboard with German layout
  • somewhat reasonable battery life (6h of note taking would be great)

I will mostly use the device for coding, taking notes, web browsing, document editing and watching stuff online. I am not afraid to do some work to get my device to be usable (e.g. port an Android driver if really necessary), but would prefer to be able to use the device as fast as possible (as one can probably imagine). I do not expect a perfectly usable out-of-the-box experience, as I know that's not to be expected with mobile Linux. My maximum budget is 700€, but that does not mean I necessarily want to spend that much.

Some devices I've found specifically made to run Linux: PineTab 2: No stylus support, not for me. FydeTab Duo: No German layout, not being shipped yet (and kind of unclear when it will) Starlite Mk 5: Really cool device imo, but there are no reviews as it hasn't been shipped yet

I've also been exploring the PostmarketOS devices page a bit, but only found the Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 Pro which looks good so far, but I might have to reach out to the device maintainer to find out more about the bluetooth status.

Edit: You’ve all recommended x86 devices/convertibles (which kind of makes sense) and I also found some of them:

  • Surface devices: seem to work pretty well, although I would prefer not to support Microsoft
  • IdeaPad Flex and Duet: Both seem like good deals, the Duet 5i looks especially interesting to me as it’s more of a "true tablet"

Are some of you daily driving Linux tablets? Do you recommend doing this at all? Do you have device recommendations? Thank you all a lot for your time and effort!

 
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