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I tried it briefly. I like the idea of an alternative to VS code, that's not some inefficient javascript electron app. But the focus of zed seems to be on collaboration in cloud and also pushing LLM tools. That's not what I'm looking for. I disliked that it was impossible to hide the "log in to github" button (I don't want to log into an editor). Irked me the wrong way.

I think AMD is better at both performance and battery life these days, also the iGPU is faster. Also as someone else mentioned, there are issues with 13th and 14th gen intel (CPU's are dying) so avoid that if you can.

I don't know specifically about the T470, but if you have an nvidia GPU, you might have issues depending on how the display outputs are connected to the GPUs. I had a T420s at some point with an nvidia GPU, and it was a PITA to get the display output to work on linux. I had to permanently enable the nvidia GPU for that to work (cutting battery life in half), because the display output was connected only to the nvidia GPU. I swore to never buy an nvidia product ever again after that experience.

I'm only saying this because I've seen a few videos about windows users switching to linux mint lately. Having to update the kernel for the computer to work is a common occurrance. IMO the newest available one should be the default one. We should strive towards giving new users the best possible first impression of linux.

They really need to update Mint though. Sure it is good.. on old computers. Anything made the last couple of years will have issues due to an ancient kernel and mesa. We should stop calling it stable/lts and unstable, because users will always pick the one called stable, even if the 'unstable' one is the one that would in most cases work the best for desktop linux. Or at least we should separate the kernel and mesa away from the rest of the 'stable' packages, and include recent versions of that by default, to not scare away people with driver issues.

It's good they're expanding and getting closer but still no Norway :(

We're always last to get interresting tech, if we even get it at all.

Yeah linux support for ARM SOCs is not ideal. There might be some fork of the kernel working with specific proprietary driver blobs. But in a few years its basically abandonware.

RISC-V is what we should try to make happen as a replacement for x86, instead of yet another proprietary IP.

I personally prefer the straight forward everything in one file examples. The worst examples are those that come with its own ad hoc example framework I first need to understand before I can understand the example.

It's called T9 typing btw. I'm old enough (30) to have had a few phones with buttons myself before the smartphone era gained momentum. I never got really good at it (didn't text much). My older sister by a few years is a racer at T9 typing though. I remember her phone was making clicking noises at insane rates.

I like the Fossify apps. I use the phone, sms, contacts, gallery and file manager. It's SO nice to not have google nag about cloud backups all the time, when I just wanted to look at some pictures I've taken.

Also whenever I can I download apps from F-Droid instead of play store if they're available both places. For example I use Home Assistant, KeePassDX, Syncthing, Termux, VLC, and more from F-Droid.

Found a couple of new apps to try out in this thread as well :)

I just use the web app on that quite rare occation I need to use discord.

The scary thing about this is thinking about potential undetected backdoors similar to this existing in the wild. Hopefully the lessons learned from the xz backdoor will help us to prevent similar backdoors in the future.