We have a few Tuxedo computers and some other Linux brands at our company and are generally happy about them. Cheaper devices have a less than perfect keyboard (though I liked the one on the slimbook) a worse camera and microphone (though some are very ok).
I’m very happy with these Linux devices. The few makes for which we needed parts also supplied them but sending the device their way for repair took longer than we’d have wanted.
The post title says “ever” rather than “2025”. It’s cool for 2025 and we may get some interesting others, but many here will have ran it on something slower at some point.
We run Taiga and it seems to work fine.
If you want to link to external sources in a structured way and you don’t mind tweaking the looks, SolidOS (ot another SOLID app) has a task list/tracker.
I keep my personal tasks in org-mode or org-roam.
Oh I feel you. Typing too much too fast is terrible on the wrists.
I remapped some keys for the key combos and have no issues with those now. Regardless of editor, good posture may help. I find good posture easier with split keyboards which often include a thumb cluster.
Perhaps multi-modal editing is better and you can do that with evil-mode. I’ve created some prefix key combinations with Alt-Gr and with the super (windows) keys to create something like it whilst keeping most most common commands close to the default. Namely C-x is now s-c which is way more relaxing on Dvorak layout.
Doom Emacs includes evil-mode by default perhaps that’s your cup of tea.
That would be Emacs.
Emacs is like an operating system bringing various tools into the same editing interface, including email. Emacs is very adaptive, you can get VIm like bindings through evil-mode.
Having worked with some local suppliers for government software and actively participating in the domain myself I would expect a lot of pushback but I don’t see it as impossible within Europe. So far everyone shifts based on requirements. I expect some things to lag behind.
License: OSI compliant is enough and easy to express. That even allows for modern AI because it’s just open weights iirc. There is EUPL but I expect that to be too specific.
I don’t see why you’d make the suggestion that only foss can be used by any supplying company. It seems obvious that the software itself and the systems it runs on should be open source. The software solution should be open source.
I would appreciate a timetable. Shifting existing contracts will be very hard and expensive. For things made within Europe, assuming this is a European initiative, I expect almost all open market solutions to switch to a different model.
But even lacking all this detail, it shows a clear desire of Europeans to use foss, and thus makes it more appealing to add this into law.
Needs minor edits for that
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We have linux-magazine delivered to the office.
The articles are easy to read, I can’t remember having to look up background knowledge but I’ve been using Linux for decades now. The articles generally teach you something practical. I don’t read all of it but what I read I often like. Just lacks depth from time to time.
Most people don’t visit the office often I think, but it’s there. I tend to take some home and bring them back.
I don’t know about warranty but they have an extensive parts list. I just replaced the battery on a laptop I bought 5 years or so ago from them.
Not that I know of. I don’t use any Google apps so I would not know of those. My bank app works. I use OSM& for maps but OrganicMaps is nicer. e/OS ships with MagicEarth which worked fine but is not FOSS. Search for locations (eg: shops) is infinitely better on Google Maps but I’m happy not to be stalked anymore.
Sometimes apps from the Play Store stop updating. It seems they find workarounds and get that running again after a while so then updates come through again. Has not been an issue so far. There’s also no Google Assistant and I have not found a good AI helper based on speech.
All in all it’s a good experience and I’m super happy I can use it. It just feels so much better to have a phone which blocks trackers in apps and not being spied on.
Holding a stock phone will feel like holding poop afterwards though. Like, you can hold it and wash your hands after, I guess, but you don’t want to touch it unless you really have to. It’s just dirty.
Use it as a daily driver. Works fine. Feels much more hygienic than stock Android.
Looks like you’re right. Global HQ in Sydney and US HQ in San Francisco as per Wikipedia. Same feeling on acceptance though.
Thanks for the information, I did not know!
It feels like people gave up. I hear many many people complain about it similarly to complaining about the weather. As if you can’t do anything about it anyways. Jira gives off a similar vibe. Hard to find anything bad about Teams on Microsoft Bing powered DuckDuckGo so perhaps just my close circle.
Addition: For video conf Jitsi and BigBlueButton work great for us when we can choose. Sadly it is often blocked by admins in large organisations.
Yes, you have to download the local area. Processing happens on your phone.
Organic Maps is a bit smoother to get started with but I’m very happy with OSM& now I have it set up as I want and was also glad to have it when renting a boat on vacation. If you’re new, try Organic Maps first.
I have not had many issues in the past 15 or more years myself running Linux exclusively aside from a shorter Macbook period. Perhaps I have just been lucky.
We sported (in guessed cronological order of first buy): Dell, HP, Lenovo, Slimbook, Tuxedo, Starlabs, BTO all running Linux at our company. We have not had big issues with any except for keyboard on a Dell, Tuxedo, Slimbook and cooling on a Lenovo. Since I chose the Slimbook many have followed on the path of smaller suppliers and I think we rarely buy from the big makes now.
I have been very happy with slimbook. I came from a macbook (bad idea) with the bad butterfly keyboard and the slimbook was a big upgrade on that front. It’s still not the greatest keyboard for some but I do like it. I have been wanting to buy a new one but whenever something broke or was insufficient I could either upgrade (2 x nvmeSSD slots and RAM can be replaced) or they still supplied spare parts when I sent them an email (keyboard replacement after 4 years). I wanted a framework but Slimbook has offered me spare parts as needed for longerbtham could buy a framework and the slimbook still works well. Plus it’s less expensive. Replacement of the keyboard was not toolless requiring glue to be heated but I did manage to quickly do it with a sleepy head at night. I’d buy their new 13" if this one would be out of service. I’d buy one now but it feels such a waste.
Things I did not like 6 years ago: webcam and microphone of lesser quality, display nice and matte with good color rendition but lower resolution than I’d prefer, no USBC charging on USBC port. Display and USBC are resolved on the new models, no clue about webcam and microphone.
When the battery gets fully discharged it degrades much faster.
I’d be searching for what’s draining the battery and in the meantime I’d add a battery disconnect switch for these periods.
Could you provide some links on the advertised manipulation of the algorithms for their interests? Thanks.
The whole reason I follow Forgejo is the thing they don’t seem to progress on: federation.
We either need to accept mail based patches again and teach a wide audience how to work with that or we need a federated forge.
When federation gets picked up it will be a major boost for Forgejo and the FOSS community.
I have since tried to browse Lemmy on it a few times. The lack of emitted light and terrible color rendition make it more boring. I guess that’s the point, a more boring device. Pictures are a problem due to dithering and bad color rendition.
Looks like they wanted Clojure to have a smaller runtime.