Another option is to buy a Chromebook, or look for a second hand several generation old Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X or Dell XPS Developer Edition. The latter is your best bet for not getting something underpowered, but also carries more risk of it breaking down sooner with no support possible. You might be able to find a first gen framework 13 second hand which can be fixed if something goes wrong, but it hasn’t been around so long that they are that cheap. Still someone might want to get rid of it and low ball it.
thank you for the recommendations. I'm fine with swapping OS's so even just compatible would work. The world seems awash in a million diffrrent laptops so it is a bit overwhelming!
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* Yeah, yeah, it's ugly, but I cannot find how to do this correctly
* and this seems to work. I anybody has more info on the real-time
* clock I'd be interested. Most of this was trial and error, and some
* bios-listing reading. Urghh.
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I'm always amazed that any foreign government handling sensitive information or dealing with defence would consider using windows. Linux has been competent for all common tasks for a long time now and won't hold any hidden surprises.
I'm not super familiar with Endeavour but are you sure your graphics card drivers are installed correctly? Looks like Endeavour gives you a command line program called Nvidia installer. You can also usually run "nvidia-smi" in terminal normally to check if they're working.
Also, are you on a laptop that uses integrated graphics? Maybe try switching to your dedicated NVidia graphics card.
And I'm seeing that Endeavour lets you choose which desktop environment you run, try switching to another desktop environment like Gnome or Cinnamon.
Looks like you might be able to select which video card takes priority in the Nvidia Control Panel which you should be able to get to by running "nvidia-settings" in the command line.
Also, are you on a laptop that uses integrated graphics?
No, it's a normal desktop PC
I'm seeing that Endeavour lets you choose which desktop environment you run, try switching to another desktop environment like Gnome or Cinnamon.
It let's you choose which desktop install during the OS installation. If you install multiple desktops enviroments you can choose which one to run with most distros, is not a special feature of EndeavourOS or anything, most distros, if not all, can do it
Try purging your graphics driver. I think Arch based distros use pacman and I'm more familiar with apt so I'm not sure how to do that. Purge the driver and the configurations and try installing the 525 version of the driver and see if that fixes anything.
I don't use linux that often but when i do VIM is the go to text/document editor. Absolutely the best imo. Sad to see someone who created something this useful go. RIP
I'd love it if the KDE devs made Baloo and Akonadi optional. Their insistence on including them reminds me of Micro$oft's insistence on bundling Internet Explorer and integrating it into the OS shell in Windows 98.
I tried both but ended up using dwm cause it was the closest to what I wanted with the least amount of work. All I added to dwm was a clock and I was happy.
Recently I have been seeing some cracks in the dike. As more and more users of FOSS come on board, they put more and more demands on developers whose numbers are not growing sufficiently fast enough to keep all the software working.
I hear from FOSS developers that too few, and sometimes no, developers are working on blocks of code. Of course this can also happen to closed-source code, but this shortness hits mostly in areas that are not considered “sexy”, such as quality assurance, release engineering, documentation and translations.
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