Posts by spuddl3z1z

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

The major point on price is that it doesntt include the cost of an Azure Desktop in the cloud or the E3 license, or intune and so on...

I guess they probably offer large discounts at scale and these are for MSPs who need to run an instance or 2 to help with user support. Shocking.

Engineer gets Windows 11 working on a Surface Duo

Re: The reason for the hardware requirements

Running Fedora 35 LDE spin on ZFS on both my laptop and workstation and it's an absolute dream. I gave up on Ubuntu, 20.04 really was a bit of a mess for desktop use. The frequency of updates is slightly annoying though.

Wayland still isn't quite usable (with SDDM/Plasma) but I hope they get there. X will do for now.

Also the Kwin tiling scripts just make it a dream.

Goodby windows, it was good until you brought out 8. Then we just hated you. I should note I do need 11 for gaming but I really don't mind booting it up to play MSFS or iRacing.

File this next to Mars bars under 'things that should not be deep-fried': Marks & Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar

Ah Emanuels

Im a rather happy scot today. My favourite news site has mentioned my very favourite chippy from my home town. Memories of a mis-spent youth, and I do live round the corner (when I am home). The pizza crunch is excellent as is the battered sausage; one cut in half on a buttered roll please with broon sauce thank you very much!

Thanks el reg!

What's in Fedora 34? GNOME 40, accelerated Wayland, PipeWire Audio, improved Flatpak support, and more

Re: not excited about the 'wayland' thing

Ive been using Linux on my workstation and my laptop for 5 years or so now. X11 is *fine*, but PulseAudio is a complete mess. Where X11 falls down is handling multiple GPUs properly and HiDPI support, which I do admit is down to the desktop environment/display manager I am using. Oh and not to mention the whole weird configuration of it all.

I'm currently on 20.04 with Budgie on top of GDM and whilst I can technically use Wayland, it doesn't work quite right outside of Gnome. But with 7 virtual desktops and it all setup right once you go past a certain number of windows the whole thing crawls to a juddering mess on a dual E5-2660 v3 20 Core setup.

Running Gnome with Wayland is super smooth, things seem snappier despite the fact it is the more heavyweight DE. Real world numbers I can't provide but I think given the kind of stack I would be measuring the only metric can be snappiness/responsiveness; super subjective I know. I find X11 just seems to lag or judder at times, no matter what DE/Display Manager you are using. I didnt *feel* this with Wayland until the system was entering swap and was under extremely heavy load, but the juddering wasn't as jarring.

I'm going to try a test move to Fedora 34 using KDE on top of ZFS. PulseAudio on 20.04 is broken and I think Wayland needs the support of people using it for it to get to where it needs to be. As for X11 forwarding, VS Code over SSH is far superior IMHO and NoMachine is superb as well. I imagine Wayland will screw me on NoMachine Virtual Sessions though. Oh and everything over WireGuard keeps it uber secure. Haven't needed X11 forwarding for some time now.