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Linux system manufacturer System76 introduced a beautiful looking Linux distribution called Pop!_OS. But is Pop OS worth an install? Read the Pop OS review and find out yourself.
More at : https://itsfoss.com/pop-os-linux-review/
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Monday January 15 2018, @08:56PM (12 children)
as the article (yup read TFA) points out, integrating hardware and OS can make users' life pretty good, no matter their power level. Let's hope the parable is not like apple's orcommercial unix's, where integration leads to walled gardens because you have enough users under your belt.
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @09:28PM (7 children)
... not the decor.
Apple forgot that.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DannyB on Monday January 15 2018, @10:17PM (5 children)
Apple is about Form over Function.
Symptom: you're holding it wrong! It's that way so we could use a certain material for the back cover that looks really cool but impedes the operation of the antenna.
Engineering takes a back seat to design. It's all about design. (What is meant by this is fashion and boutique, but they call it design.)
Example: making laptops so thin that they become impractical -- but just for the sake of thin! Hey how about make it a few millimeters thicker (and stiffer)1 and double the battery life? What a concept! Add a few more standard connectors and get rid of some dongles? What an idea! Then patent it!
1not meant to sound dirty
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(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Monday January 15 2018, @10:18PM
I also should have mentioned the courage to get rid of the headphone jack.
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(Score: 1) by bobthecimmerian on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:06PM (3 children)
The ultra-thin bit is mighty convenient when you're taking your laptop all over the house, to the coffee shop, to work meetings, and so forth. And it becomes a competition with rival vendors. "Our new Apple ____ is 1.7 mm thinner and 4 grams lighter than the ultra-light laptop from our competitor Dell!" (or whoever)
So I understand why they do it. On the other hand, the lack of removable batteries and storage on so many flagship tablets and smart phones is a disaster. I would have thought consumers would flock to vendors that only offered both... but I would have thought wrong.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 16 2018, @04:00PM (2 children)
Don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking thin. I think Apple has merely done it to excess. Now they're just trying for absurd.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:40PM (1 child)
Yes, my iPad Mini (which I like a fair amount) was so thin I went out and bought a centimeter of black plastic Otterbox to surround it for the inevitable occurrence of bouncing it off my tile floors.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:28PM
And i have seen fanatics from both the iPhone and Android camp claim that it is a good thing that the phones are so thin that they can fit bulky cases on them.
Sorry, but i will take a bulky phone that i can switch batteries on and that can take a fall without a case, thank you very much...
(Score: 4, Funny) by driverless on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:45AM
Absolutely! Unless the plumbing's in order, it's somewhat irrelevant whether the carpet matches the drapes.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:19AM (3 children)
But you have to realize its all just configuration of standard Linux software, perhaps bundled with some video card blobs.
Why build an entire distro for that?
Just put up a package repository of configuration files for existing open-source drivers that matches them to your hardware. Its not even that hard because what drivers and configurations you need for Opensuse are going to be the same ones you will need for Ubuntu or Arch or RedHat.
There's just absolutely ZERO point in building your own distro (and pretending it isn't linux).
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(Score: 2) by Adamsjas on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:41AM
I think Manjaro did something like that.
They found a manufacturer that was already making Linux Laptops, and configured their Manjaro versions to run on the hardware.
https://manjaro.org/hardware/ [manjaro.org]
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday January 16 2018, @10:00PM (1 child)
It is a lovely idea to offer that as an option. I would keep customizing my own distro as it would reduce the installation variables.
User likes antix because his old laptop works well. Wants to keep using it. Downloads the configuration. Antix is without systemd. Systemd service files get downloaded anyway (they do no harm). User has problems, googles the problem, might be systemd related, starts editing files that no one uses.
But hey, the package manager in post config could detect which init system is in use, easy peasy right? enter mx linux which has separate boot options for init.d and systemd.
In a nutshell, hell.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:31PM
> enter mx linux which has separate boot options for init.d and systemd.
Interesting, sadly this leads to it showing up as being systemd based on Distrowatch...