Idk, I honestly like the windows 7 look. But using it after security updates have been stopped is just plain stupid.

Dunno why you got a down vote,vote what you’re saying aligns with my experience with Anker products as well

Cool, thank you!

Interesting. How do you limit RAM for an application?

Im using a 4gb laptop with Xfce, and its definitely struggling sometimes. Even though it’s usable, I doubt 2gb would be enough

I don’t think anyone is claiming that common misconceptions somehow become correct, just that having that discussion with someone who doesn’t care is pointless. Also, pedantic discussions like that are something that might turn people off from trying out Linux

Sure looks like it

Been using arch for a few weeks now, so far it hasn’t been too complicated. Also, using archinstall made the installation reasonably easy

Hmm yeah, you do have a point there.

If they do that, support them in fixing it themselves, instead of just fixing it for them. Give a person a fish, feed them for a day or something…

Ive used Nobara before and was pretty happy with that. Like bazzite it is made for gaming and mostly just works out of the box. I haven’t used bazzite though, so I can’t say which was better in my experience. But VR was still a hassle to set up for me

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Every time one of my friends has issues with windows, I tell them to install a real OS.

I don’t see how that could happen. You can always choose another distro, or make your own if absolutely necessary. But I understand why you’re concerned.

Ive walked a similar path as you, I think. I ended up just trying arch, because I was district hopping anyways, using 2 separate drives in my PC. I’d just nuke the system that I thought was worse, and Nobara survived quite a few other distros, but it finally lost to arch. I do have some issues, but nothing completely bricking my system, at least during the month I’ve been using it. The AUR and Arch documentation is frankly amazing, so I do think it’s worth it personally. Although I am thinking about trying Debian with the nix package manager when I can’t wait for Debian packages to update. But this time Nobara will be nuked lol

You should set up your partitions in a way that allows you to keep user data despite the system breaking, no matter the distro. I think the Nobara setup just did that by default, but arch doesn’t necessarily. Also watch out when installing arch using archinstall, the partition layout suggested by it didn’t work for me and my friend due to an off by one error, resulting in slightly overlapping partitions. Not sure if they fixed that in the meantime, but doing it manually isn’t too hard either.

I have the x230 and like it, but I’d love to have a t420 for the meme

WebKit apparently

Nope, just on my gaming tower, but those laptops shouldn’t have it installed and I definitely never set up a connection to my phone

That makes sense, this is probably it. I’m gonna try the add-on the other user was recommending and see if it happens again.

The only peripheral I have on there is a USB mouse with no media buttons, and the laptop lid is closed so I doubt it’s hardware causing this, but a good idea nonetheless