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  • Depends on their specific needs, so they should probably jump into some Linux community and ask for themselves.

    My anecdotal evidence includes vastly different experiences.

    I have a friend who hates Linux desktop and exclusively uses it for running dev related stuff via WSL.

    Another who uses Linux desktop primarely, but dualboots Windows for certain games.

    And I am on Linux single boot and rarely use KVM (without GPU) for running my CNC or other software.


  • Minisforum V3 is 12” and less than 1kg.

    But it is not quite a laptop, expensive and very powerful - not sure if that suits you.

    Linux wise, most of the stuff works (sleep, power profiles, volume buttons, fingerprint reader, face recognition, pen, touchscreen). Things that don’t work are automatic rotate/accelerometer.

    I’m super happy with it, running arch, doing development and using VMs.


  • Deckweiss@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlKDE Goals - A New Cycle Begins
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    8 days ago

    Let me be more concrete then. What I am used to is the following:

    • Open the relevant Jetbrains IDE
    • Click on new project
    • Find the correct template (e.g. Spring Boot Web Starter) and follow the wizard. (Alternatively the steps before can be replaced with cloning a repo and opening it with my IDE)
    • I can click “Play” to start the app
    • I can click “Debug” to debug the app
    • Bonus: when doing Android or Web development, I can create the GUI by drag&dropping building blocks into a preview (contrary to manually typing out textfiles that describe the layout)

    Every step is a button click or a entry field in a dialog. These steps also work on every major distro. And I wish for a similar experience when developing KDE Plasma.

    For completeness, I will try to do the same dev things and list the steps for KDE Plasma development later (in about 8h).








  • As far as I can see it is just Debian with LXDE, firefox ESR and some other packages preinstalled.

    If they respect the license, you as a user can ask for the source code by e-mail.

    But from my point of view, you can just install plain old Debian and all the same software and get a long term proven OS that will not randomly disappear and a huge userbase for support questions.