Hawaii should be free anyway. Send all the USians home and give the people of Hawaii their nation back.

And its not even accurate. This person you replied to is taking a very narrow view of social programs to mean direct government handouts. All communist nations are still in development stages and most of their social spending goes towards building vital infrastructure, and helping communities become self sufficient and independent. In the Nordic countries a poor village may be given a cash handout to buy food for example, but in China a poor village will be provided with skills and resources to support themselves indefinitely. This is how China raises people out of poverty permanently while European social programs simply put a bandaid on the problem.

I just had to explain this to someone the other day lol. Figure ur gonna get lots of hate from libs about this post so wanted to just come in and say hi. 你是很好老师同志。Your posts in response are nicely done. I hope people take the time to read them.

i think a good example is text size. My eyesight isnt horrible but it isnt great either so some small text can be hard to read for me. But in gnome in accessibility there is just a toggle for “large text” so i can either make all text fucking massive, or have it be normal. Other than that the most i can do is try to change specific font settings and fiddle with it constantly for each application lol. This could be fixed by just having a slider instead of a toggle in gnomes text accessibility options and letting you choose between a few different sizes.

Is it using Wayland or x11? Try switching to X11 if on wayland. Theres a scaling issue on wayland in certain versions where it thinks your screen is a MUCH higher resolution than it actually is. Its meant to help with high dpi displays by using digital pixels but on lower dpi displays it can mess up stuff especially in certain software like games.

Tuxedo OS as far as i know is an optional distro they give preinstalled. You can buy them with no OS and install one yourself via usb it takes like 15 mins. This is true of any laptop with an unlocked bootloader (something like a mac can be done but its harder.)

Most of them already did. My own laptop is a latitude 7400 i got after a business replaced it for cheap. They update their lineups regularly anyway usually. So most will be windows 11 ready. I think this laptop would be able to run windows 11 too altho idk cuz i use debian and have never tried it.

Everyday that this goes on the people who work at ports importing this stuff find new jobs. Once these tariffs are lifted it wont be like going back to normal. The damage is already done. Amerikkka is fucked.

Are people going to throw them out? With tarrifs especially i think a lot of people will just use unsecure hardware.

I used to run a raspberry pi off a external phone battery via usb so i could carry it around while testing stuff lol

He never switched hes just a liar. Hes on of those libs who says they support gaza but wont call it a genocide and says “israel has a right to defend itself” and he voted for pro-israel anti-palestine shit in congress.

Oh man the libs really dont like when you point how their furthest left guy still supports genocide.

If your looking to use linux and have good battery life tho its not like thats hard to do. Especially with your use case. My laptop (latitude 7400) has a loud fan and runs hot on windows and undervolting is bios locked so on windows the battery life would suck and it would be loud and hot. But on linux i customize the tlp settings and turn the clock speeds down, make sure battery mode is on even when plugged in, and i get great battery life, and the fan never even turns on. Just pulled up powertop and it says with the web browser im typing this in and running a local music player im pulling 5W from the battery, at 81% right now, and have 10 hours until empty at current usage. And this thing only cost like 250$ cuz i got it used.

The bill said online posts with “an image, audio recording, or video recording that has been altered using generative artificial intelligence technology” are banned “unless the political advertising includes a disclosure from the person or another person on whose behalf the political advertising is published, distributed, or broadcast indicating that the image, audio recording, or video recording did not occur in reality.”

Its specifically if theyre altered by AI but my question is how do you prove that? Whats to stop them from claiming any image thats altered by photoshop or something is AI?

I mean any distro you can easily swap just log out and switch DE and have both installed. Even mint i have run gnome on before with no issues.

Are you planning to run Linux on it? Dont get a snapdragon then. Its not ready yet and youll have a ton of issues.

Especially considering theyre plenty happy to advertise and sell windows only games to you in the store when running linux.

I turn it off during OS install then turn it on after usually. If you want to run VMs sometimed youll have to sign your own keys and annoying stuff like that but you can always just go into BIOS and turn it off anytime anyway.

Will my ability to play games be significantly affected compared to Windows?

Not significantly as long as you are on the right distro for it.

Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?

no. mod managers can work but its definitely not as easy. If you use steam workshop it works great usually, but something like vortex is gonna be a pain in the ass.

If a program has no Linux version, is it unusable, or are there workarounds?

You can run windows programs with wine. It’s not that difficult to do. Its how games work on Linux that dont have linux support.

Can Linux run programs that rely on frameworks like .NET or other Windows-specific libraries?

Usually you can get it to work. I have run across some specific programs for my job that simply wont work with wine, but they barely work on windows as it is. It may need fiddling with tho.

How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a “Linux Update” program like what Windows has?

Sometimes. It depends on the distro. Mint has an updater where you click update and ur done basically. Others you go in and do a terminal command which changes by package manager. For like OS version jumps if your not on a rolling release distro then it can be a bit of a bigger job. I recently updated my computer from Debian Bookworm to Debian Trixie. I went into the sources replaced bookworm with trixie, and ran the full upgrade command. Then rebooted and had to ctl alt f4 into terminal nuke gnome and reinstall that. Which is expected in that case. It can be a bit techy at times for something like that but for a normal update on a distro with a GUI updater its a button click. Usually no reboot needed either.

How does digital security work on Linux? Is it more vulnerable due to being open source? Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?

Dont download shit you shouldnt download. If your not sure if something has a virus or not you can get tools to scan for them, but windows is similar in that your main protection is just not doing something dumb. You can keep regular backups and if somehow you mess something up or get a virus just restore from it. PikaBackup works well.

Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?

AMD is flawless usually. Nvidia i dont use but hear it can be more of a hassle. With AMD the drivers will come preinstalled with your distro usually. Some do Nvidia too some dont. There is an open source and proprietary nvidia driver you have to pick which one you want. Id research it for your specific card.

Can Linux (in the case of a misconfiguration or serious failure) potentially damage hardware?

No more than windows can. If you try to overclock without proper cooling or something for example. Thats BIOS stuff usually tho not an OS thing.

And also, what distro might be best for me?

Maybe Nobara since you like gaming? Or Linux Mint its beginner friendly.

If what you want is like a start menu like experience that you can customize i think plasma and cinnamon would both give that to you from what i have seen. Take a look at my reply to my own comment btw i put a screenshot of the app grouping that does exist in gnome. You just group them up in the all apps menu.