Props to my man Lawspeaker

[The Lawspeaker]

With phones, everything is simple for me - I usually buy the current Xiaomi Redmi. They look good, can do everything, they are very cheap and popular among developers of custom firmware.
With laptops, everything is much more complicated - even a successful model can have many revisions with components from different manufacturers. Plus, corporate models are relatively expensive, but with consumer ones things are much even worse.

For me, it's the other way around: I notice that there usually is a problem with the battery after a year or so, so I now opt for models that allow for the phone battery to be replaced. With laptops: I really don't care because I tend to use it for internet and study stuff - not for gaming.

[KirillMazur]

For me, it's the other way around: I notice that there usually is a problem with the battery after a year or so, so I now opt for models that allow for the phone battery to be replaced. With laptops: I really don't care because I tend to use it for internet and study stuff - not for gaming.

Since you are not involved in development (there is no need for a powerful CPU for compilation and virtual machines) and you do not play (there is no need for a hybrid video card), but you use Linux, then the task comes down to finding compatible hardware and not a very big price?

[The Lawspeaker]

Since you are not involved in development (there is no need for a powerful CPU for compilation and virtual machines) and you do not play (there is no need for a hybrid video card), but you use Linux, then the task comes down to finding compatible hardware and not a very big price?

So far it's all going rather easy. My flatmate installed Linux and I have been using it since. It seems to be me that Linux is thus compatible.

[KirillMazur]

So far it's all going rather easy. My flatmate installed Linux and I have been using it since. It seems to be me that Linux is thus compatible.

I'm writing from my wife’s PC (yes, she plays games and studies the design of living quarters quite seriously) - she doesn’t want to go anywhere from Windows 7 even at gunpoint. I think that when her software stops working under 7, only then negotiations will succeed.

[The Lawspeaker]

I'm writing from my wife’s PC (yes, she plays games and studies the design of living quarters quite seriously) - she doesn’t want to go anywhere from Windows 7 even at gunpoint. I think that when her software stops working under 7, only then negotiations will succeed.

I have no real wish of ever going back to Windows.. but maybe.. just maybe one day.

[Ülev]

I have no real wish of ever going back to Windows.. but maybe.. just maybe one day.

I know - NSA in other distros, but this is only one (before sh.... quarrels and fights)


recommended by Russian Defence Ministry, FSTEK, FSB (Federal Security Service) and Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media

[KirillMazur]

Astra Linux

This is a very outdated stable Debian certified by FSTEC. Obviously intended for military and some government agencies. Strictly not intended for home use.

I have no real wish of ever going back to Windows.. but maybe.. just maybe one day.

Nobody says that Linux is good - it is just the least bad (for some categories of citizens, mostly with tech background). Here is an interesting instruction, the author quite successfully tries to turn the server Win 10 into a desktop - https://www.windowsworkstation.com/win2016-2019/

[Ülev]

JamesBond007 recommends Debian Buster Linux

Not my problem I use superior Communist technology called Debian Buster Linux; It is very stable and secure although nothing is bulletproof it has a lot less malware and viruses for it etc.. I currently have firefox running in firejail with apparmor thus making it 'sandboxed secure' so it can't screw up my system through a bug in the codebase etc...

therefore I use Win10 now

[ShieldWolf]

Where's The Lawspeaker?

[Creoda]

Where's The Lawspeaker?

Laying down the law somewhere else.