HubertManne

Man a drill press is so freaking useful.

I find it hard to believe. He was using ubuntu and both his wifi and trackpad and the lot broke. I remember in the aughts when a student came in to proudly say he through th latest suse on a laptop and everything worked out of box. Yeah things can have issues but much like windows its often just an update which even with windows you have to be ready to have a physical network connection or you could be screwed with wifi. I have not seen any issues with ubuntu. Did he intentionally say to not use 3rd party drivers which is what my thought is which to blog about that afterwards without repeating using third party sounds like a hit job.

Although it took me a long time to switch to linux as my daily driver I did move most all of my applications to open source way back in the aughts. portable apps was super helpful in enabling this and actually the biggest thing that would be helpful to me in linux is something similar as it makes getting a new system up and running a breeze. appman with appimages is pretty close but it needs a nice gui and to default with using local home and config folders. there is a gui project but their library is not as well done as appman. I need to hit them up suggesting they use appman as their software manager and just concern themselves with the gui part as appman has pretty much solved that part. I sorta wish appimage had defaulted to local directories as without them you might as well use something more like flatpak.