You could hack something together with KDE widgets (plasmoids I think?), creating an array of app launchers on your desktop.

It’d be a completly manual way of doing it though, so up to you if you think it’s worth it.

I’ve been using Fedora KDE on a 5625U on my new laptop, gives me about 5 hours.

I use this program auto-cpufreq with the “Powersave” setting and that gives me about 7 hours with barely noticeable performance degredation.

Thanks for reminding that part of my brain to bully the other parts into doing LFS.

You should look into window managers such as dwl if you want a truly minimalist experience.

• Proton & Lutris
• Libreoffice & Nextcloud
• G.I.M.P, Inkscape, Krita
• It’s cooler, more secure, more private, more trusting etc.
• More compatible than Windows 11 that’s for sure

Everyone should use Linux, it’s just whether or not they can use Linux.

I hate it when a service advertises itself as “affordable”, being affordable is totally subjective.

Look for a large spike, that’d be the deck.

A scoldingly hot take.

There’s a console command to hide it outside of photo mode too, I can’t recall it off the top of my head but could come in useful.

I’m having the exact same issue! Game works perfectly on Linux (ignoring the actual game’s bugs) but photo mode doesn’t actually save the photos.

I’m guessing it’s to do with just how Proton (Wine) works, and the game struggling with that even under the gise of translation. For the time being I just hide the UI and take a normal screenshot (F12) then if I’m using it as a wallpaper I crop it down; there are usually black bars either side of the image since I use a 21:9 monitor.

Now this, this is how you know a company really cares about it’s users. Sure $750 probably isn’t going to affect their bottom line much but still, it’s $750 just handed to some people for securing their customers.

Just the 1 premium linux distro please…

x86 backwards compatibility

I think the current status-quo of devices like laptops is unsustainable. For example just because the CPU is a bit slow doesn’t mean the RAM, GPU (If Applicable), PSU, Motherboard, I/O Ports, Display, Speakers, Camera, Keyboard, Trackpad etc should go too. The way it’s currently done is so incredibly wasteful and peak capitalist (Hi Apple 🫠).

So I’m 100% on board with Framework’s goal and, if it is financially feasible, you should go with them. Software is infinite, hardware is not. But if Framework’s is a bit too steep then I’d go with someone like System76 just because I don’t want to fuel the fire of Big Tech.

I like GRUB, it’s what I’ve always used and it’s never failed me. I don’t like messing around with bootloader stuff for reasons like this. If I was only using 1 OS then yeah I’d probably use efibootmgr or something and just have it jump straight in.

It is good fun if you’re really into Linux, I practically jumped out my seat when I crossed my fingers, rebooted and GRUB came up with Gentoo listed.

I’m putting it on my hardware as we speak, we’ll see :D

Oh right, thanks I wasn’t sure I just knew they made some deal with Microsoft

I’m using Startpage, and I also have a self-hosted Adguard DNS on my network so that helps a bit too.