• artyom@piefed.social
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    9 days 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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      2 hours 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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        1 hour ago

        We’re discussing brand new dedicated Linux laptops and you want to bring up a 16 year old Windows computer? Yeah nah, you’re just intentionally arguing in bad faith. Goodbye.

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      9 days 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.