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I think websites should be designed to work in all modern browsers, but IE is a deprecated/dead browser that takes extra work to support.

Dropping support for IE is the right thing to do at this point.

for some reason I can never get the media creation tool to work, it always downloads the ISO and then fails to write it to the USB with some ridiculously vague error code.

rufus on the other hand always works without issue

that channel is endless entertainment, I love it

and here I was about to make a joke about adding emoticons to the front of self driving cars

Yeah, I just tried logging into google play music and just got a page saying I must transfer to youtube music

maybe my memory is fuzzy, but I don't have a single fond memory of IE6. I remember it being a revelation how much better firefox was when I first switched back in the day.

Chrome is far better than IE6 ever was. Not even close to the same situation IMO.

The browser market is so much different now though.

Firefox was originally competing against the pile of steaming garbage that was IE6.

Now they are competing against Chrome which is actually a good browser, and Chrome also has the advantage of having google behind it which can leverage their search/ad monopoly to push Chrome.

They were AMD CPU/GPU last time around as well

I agree with most of your points, but I actually much prefer OSX's app/icon based alt tab to windows style window/thumbnail based alt tab

depends on the laptop. macbooks are among the worst machines for running linux and require much more tinkering than normal.

I'm very happy with this program, the GUI isn't the most elegant but it does the job.

I don't think I'd describe the GUI as 'bloated' though... it's actually pretty minimal. I think the screenshot on the github page makes it look busier than it really is (e.g. the sidebar can be hidden, and you'd usually be using it with a larger window size).

I find the program to be very powerful out of the box, so I haven't had to customize much (the customization is just icing on the cake IMO).

I use this program every day at work as my personal knowledgebase for my technical support notes (and also for taking notes on phone calls). I have thousands of notes and this program handles it much better than anything else I've tried. The powerful tree structure, fast search, and tagging system make it really easy for me to quickly find what I'm looking for.

> My process so far has been I keep a daily journal where I write down the most interesting things I learnt or did everyday

Trilium should work great for this, you can press ctrl + alt + p to automatically create a new day note under a calendar tree.

In my case, I also added a custom shortcut/button that brings me to the current day in the calendar tree

my point is that if you want to do better than 'pretty much', you should buy a machine from an OEM that actually supports linux

If you're installing it on a random windows laptop, you're never going to get better than 'pretty much', because the OEM doesn't support linux or test their hardware with linux.

> Last time I tried to debug it, this was caused due to a too old samba protocol version being used on the Windows side

IIRC, the only smb version that would be considered too old is smbv1 (which I'd hope they are not using on the windows side... its quite insecure and is deprecated by microsoft).

> Whenever you bring anything like this up though you'll just get a load of "When was the last time you tried it? It works perfectly for me" replies. Linux users don't want to admit its flaws.

Are you implying that those users are lying?

I'm sure sleep does work reliably for them.

'Does sleep work on linux' is a fallacious question to begin with, because sleep working/not working depends on the hardware.

On some configurations it works flawlessly, on others it doesn't. Therefore you will always have some people saying it works, and others saying it doesn't. FWIW, my current laptop is a machine that ships with linux (system76 darter pro) and sleep works 100% reliably.

In my experience, when sleep doesn't work reliably, it's usually due to buggy firmware behaviour because most vendors don't care about supporting anything other than windows.

Along those lines, since most OEMs don't ship/test linux, it's simply not possible for every single hardware configuration to work flawlessly with linux.

OSX can only guarantee that everything works because apple controls both the hardware and software.

Windows can only guarantee that everything works because they have a monopoly and therefore hardware vendors have to support windows.

Most laptops don't ship with linux/are never tested with linux, so it's never going to work flawlessly on all possible hardware configurations. It's just not possible.

It does however, 'pretty much' work on most hardware.

And if you buy a machine from a vendor that actually supports/pre-installs/tests linux, all of the hardware will work out of the box.

Because the DIY market is reletively small. Intel still has huge sway with OEM's (and mindshare with consumers). It's difficult for AMD to overcome that even with a better product

I see this as a good thing, the chip is tuned well enough to hit its limits out of the box, without having to mess around with manual overclocking to get optimal performance.

Your information is very out of date.

The old synaptics driver worked as you describe (implementing kinetic scrolling at the driver level)

Libinput (which all modern distros switched to ages ago) does NOT implement kinetic scrolling at the driver level.

Instead libinput implements 'scroll sources' and it's up to the toolkits/clients to use that data to perform kinetic scrolling.

what do you mean? AMD integrated graphics are supported by the same open source driver... IIRC, anything that's GCN 1.2 or newer is supported (APU or dedicated)

I have a darter pro and really like it, no complaints about the build quality

its the best experience I've ever had with linux on a laptop, everything just works with no fuss

pop doesn't even have snapd installed by default

Alternatively, you could just use a modern OS and no longer have to worry about whether or not programs are unsupported.

GNOME.

> if it can be substantiated

Key words, I see no actual proof of OPs claim...

System76 provides driver support and testing. There's no guarantee that things will work properly 'out of the box' if you just buy a random clevo.

I don't find dash to dock necessary at all. I just hit super key and type, or use the 3 finger pinch touchpad gesture to open the overview.

In any case, in my experience extensions aren't as brittle as you're implying, they generally only stop working after a major gnome version update (e.g. 3.32 > 3.34) which you wouldn't get through an apt-get update.

I haven't had any swapping issues at all, but I suppose this could be hardware dependent (e.g. nvidia drivers are known to cause serious memory leaks with mutter)

Gnome 3 is perfectly usable IMO, I use it every day.

The initial release was pretty bad, but it's gotten much better over the years.

its rendering engine hasn't been completely re-written though. They've been re-writing parts of it piece by piece.