Minisforum V3 is 12” and less than 1kg.
But it is not quite a laptop, expensive and very powerful - not sure if that suits you.
Linux wise, most of the stuff works (sleep, power profiles, volume buttons, fingerprint reader, face recognition, pen, touchscreen). Things that don’t work are automatic rotate/accelerometer.
I’m super happy with it, running arch, doing development and using VMs
Let me be more concrete then. What I am used to is the following:
Every step is a button click or a entry field in a dialog. These steps also work on every major distro. And I wish for a similar experience when developing KDE Plasma.
For completeness, I will try to do the same dev things and list the steps for KDE Plasma development later (in about 8h).
Very nice.
I’m very excited, because in the past I have bounced off KDE development. Coming from a java and web background, the tooling and dev environment was just mindboggling.
You can either decide by what is currently in demand in the industry and then pick a project that you can exercise that language with or you can think of a project you’d like to do and then go by what the best language is for a given project.
In the end, languages are just like different wrenches. First you have to learn how to use a wrench, size or features don’t matter much at this point (unless you already know that you want to become an expert with one particular wrench).
I think starting a new project is way easier than contributing to an existing one.
Best advice I have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPO4fm4nxc
Keep at it. Do actual projects. Actually use the tools for a while. It will eventually make sense.
Why do so many external entities care so much about constantly trying to reduce my privacy?
If they would not have started it, I wouldn’t have started to care.
Install literally every package from the repo, then you can experience breaking OS every day.
The most annoying ones for me personally, in no particular order:
tldr: nothing works - sorry for being bitter
I have reported and/or commented on existing issues when plasma 6.0.0 rolled out on arch and there has been no work on them as far as I can see.
I even asked in the matrix dev rooms.
They were not even triaged. So some describe the same issue multiple times. Check the ones which had activity in 2024:
I just hope they fix window rules
As far as I can see it is just Debian with LXDE, firefox ESR and some other packages preinstalled.
If they respect the license, you as a user can ask for the source code by e-mail.
But from my point of view, you can just install plain old Debian and all the same software and get a long term proven OS that will not randomly disappear and a huge userbase for support questions.
netcup as well
Well, they have blocked a mobile phones connection when you held it in your hand sooooo
“You’re browsing it wrong”
/s
I am not sure technically, but even if possible it would be a nightmare of resolving conflicts manually, since a lot of system files are constantly written to and read from and it would mess everything up if syncthing is overwriting the file at the same time.
or 3 way with an always on server (like a raspi or cheapest VPS with just enough storage) so that you don’t have to have both computers on at the same time (thats what I am doing currently and it works great).
Thanks for looking deeper into it, I actually use a ton of the projects you’ve listed! It’s a dammn shame that the funding is going away. I guess we should try to follow through and write an email to the EU parlament as suggested in the OP article.
Here is a list of funded projects:
If anybody wants to look depper into their claim of “proven success”.
I browsed through it shallowly and didn’t find any project that I know/use, nor were the projects which I have randomly clicked on any interesting, when they had a working, usable result at all and not just designs or proof of concepts.
I know it sounds cynical, but I honestly don’t mean it negatively. I just wanted to look a bit into it because their claims seemed without substance to me.
But as I said I only looked at it very shallowly so far.
Well, it’s right in the name - National PUBLIC Data
/s
Depends on their specific needs, so they should probably jump into some Linux community and ask for themselves.
My anecdotal evidence includes vastly different experiences.
I have a friend who hates Linux desktop and exclusively uses it for running dev related stuff via WSL.
Another who uses Linux desktop primarely, but dualboots Windows for certain games.
And I am on Linux single boot and rarely use KVM (without GPU) for running my CNC or other software.