Wow, this is brilliant! Now all I need is proper mouse gestures support and I can migrate full-time!

Wait, how do you turn them on?

Yeah, I guess I sound a bit aggressive. That wasn’t the intention. I just get an allergic reaction when I see the “Linux is just better than Windows now!” stuff. It is - in some scenarios. In others it’s worse. Someone who wants to do IT (and it kinda’ sounds like OP’s heading there) needs to understand that.

It’s honestly extremely surprising to me that there aren’t still any proper FOSS solutions that handle this. Is it because it’s super difficult to do? I’ve no idea, but it’s definitely something that’s preventing a lot of businesses to switch over.

Just FYI - SCCM is not the Autopilot equivalent, it’s the Intune equivalent. Intune’s Autopilot is, kind of, what Task Sequence is in SCCM.

As far as “life support” goes - it’s full featured. Security updates are still coming in, not much else they can add feature-wise in there.

As for the cloud - everything has its uses. Cloud is great if you don’t want to deal with all the bare-metal stuff. It allows one person to do the work of four, with the trade-off being that you lose some of the fine-tuning, control, or optimisation. As the saying goes: “the ‘s’ in 'Intune” stands for ‘speed’".

Don’t fuck the cloud. Just use it when it’s better than on-prem.

I love Linux. I’m running Linux and love the experience.

But…

i7-4970 i7-4790 so running windows 10 with all its bloat was not going to be an easy task for em

What in the world are you talking about, man??

Even ignoring the silliness of the “bloat” - i7-4790 eats Win10 alive and asks for seconds.

I stated that as long as they dont know how to work with wine/lutris or know any specific linux packages that run windows games on linux they should not be able to play in the middle of lessons

So… No, you didn’t stop them from doing that. All it takes for them to get back to playing games is to google “linux roblox how to” and 20 minutes later they’re good to go. Windows has AppLocker, and GPO to prevent running unwanted software - have you researched alternatives for Linux?

does this mean linux now is ready for the education sector?

Well, depends on scale. The setup you did is fine for, what, a single classroom? Two classrooms? It’s completely unusable for a larger school - for that you need an MDM solution, ideally with some form of IAM. In the Windows world that’s SCCM/Intune with AD/EID (local/cloud). Correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s only bare-bones equivalents in the Linux world for that, which would be the bigger a problem the larger a school you’d be dealing with.

I didn’t notice any slowness in connection after sleep/suspend, but I can’t say I was overly paying attention.

How about this - I configured Kate to have full Markdown support, with preview.

There was an update today. The Document Preview plugin got disabled and once I enabled it, it’s no longer able to display Markdown preview.

That’s what I call “unstable”. Shit randomly breaking for no reason at all. And I know it’s probably SOME dependency SOMEWHERE that got updated which broke a DIFFERENT dependency, but that’s kind of my point - things like this just don’t happen on Windows (since around Win10).

Do you get a window?

I run games in full screen mode, so maybe it would work. Seems like Wayland has Ctrl+Meta+Esc as the equivalent of xkill. I’ll try this if it happens again.

To me “stable” means: “fire and forget”. Maybe a reboot needed every couple of months because something broke, or having to kill a hung process. That’s my experience with Windows nowadays.

I’m on Garuda Linux, which is based on Arch Zen, and every now and again something random breaks. Network connection doesn’t stand up after sleep. Steam randomly breaks. Signal refuses to connect. One monitor’s brightness doesn’t go back to default value after the OS dimmed it due to inactivity. Uninstalled application still shows up in Application Launcher’s search results, even though I deleted it from the KDE Menu Editor.

Lots and lots of little things like that.

Steam does something weird when running a Windows game via Proton. I haven’t figured out which task to kill to kill a game it’s running.

More stable

Wellllll, I wouldn’t go that far.

I just had to reboot because clicking anything in the browser randomly started sending the CPU utilisation to higher 70s, which was triggering the fans to spin at full power.

Then I ran a game on Steam and Steam said it’s running, but it was nowhere to be found. Had to reboot again.

Both of these happened completely randomly after I changed nothing, just browsing the web.

Hey, thanks for your comment! Someone on Reddit was able to help out, I posted the solution in the OP.

If I remember right, no. If I clean boot, load sddm, immediately type my password and log in, then I have to wait a while for the mouse to start working.

But if I clean boot, load sddm, wait the same 5-10 seconds, then the mouse starts working on the login screen and then just continues to work once logged in.

Pro-tip: stop being a fundamentalist, and you won’t be getting compared to one.

Small steps? What small steps are you talking about? We both know there are none

Yeah, absolutely nothing’s been done (other than two court cases, one ban, and a bunch of further actions I outlined).

It’s a shame that you’re so thoroughly brainwashed into this tribal attitude, mate. You seem like a smart person, but somehow, when it comes to this “us vs them” you revert to a mindless fundamentalist no different than a Taliban blowing up statues…

I hope you find it in yourself to take a step back and look at things from a wider perspective, to see that you can applaud the good moves of a bad party, while still pointing out the bad ones.

Peace!

try and look at what I am saying outside the lens of internal US politics.

I’m not from the US, I think this is how I’m looking at this.

An oligarch gang does not engage in good faith with respect to anti-trust

I already said this a couple of times, but seems like I have to repeat it: nobody in the conversation (Yen included) believes Trump did anything “in good faith”. I specifically stated that I believe whatever anti-trust policies and actions Trump has made were done explicitly in bad faith, as an attempt to get back at “Big Tech” for being “anti-right-wing”.

To try and imply otherwise (and be all high and mighty about it) is essentially mocking your customers.

He didn’t “imply otherwise”. Not once has he stated that he “believes in the long term mission of the Republican party to fight for the rights of the consumers”. He only said that Reps became anti-Big Tech recently and that it’s good.

Again: there are no statements of intent, ONLY statement of fact.

The examples you cited mean nothing

I’m sorry, what??

You asked “what were the good things [Reps did]”. I gave you examples. You didn’t ask “what did the attempts accomplish”, did you?

Considering it’s the US we’re talking about, and how hilariously long some court cases can take, it’d be a miracle to see ANYTHING come out of these cases before 2030 (assuming they’re not trashed now that Big Tech is back in bed with Trump, of course).

However, it is an undeniable, objective FACT that these cases are a start, that these examples show anti-Big Tech attitude, and that these are examples of Trump admin’s (accidental) fight for the betterment of the life of “the little guy”.

then you would actually highlight some real world results

Did you forget about the Tik-Tok ban? Again, you asked for examples of actions, not results. Considering how fresh things are (it all started fairly late into his previous term), I don’t know why you’re expecting many examples of results, that’s just being extremely unrealistic.

Although I will say there is a beautiful irony in the following phrase (…)

Well, that’s because you still seem to be thinking in a kind of “all or nothing” way. It’s either “Trump == Hitler” or “OMG I love Trump” for you - no inbetween. It’s either “they completely obliterated Big Tech” or “absolutely nothing accomplished”. It’s like you don’t believe in small steps? I honestly am baffled by your responses so far.

This whole situation is baffling. It’s literally:

Me: Guy said X, not Y.

You: Well, he shouldn’t have said Y.

Me: But he didn’t.

You: But he very well didn’t say Z, therefore he meant Y.

It’s just… weird to me.

Anyway, maybe read THIS comment by Yen which he made just 3 months ago, and THIS post from a day later… It sheds some more light about his stance on things.

I don’t see any malicious intent in there, do you?

OK, so you missed the point of the discussion and have nothing constructive to add. Got it.

Then what does this mean?

Elsewhere, yes, I will happily call the proton guy a nazi supporter

Are you capable of stating what issue it is you see with my arguments?