On my wifés 2012 MacBook Pro, I had the same broadcom related problem and installing Rpm fusion solved it https://ostechnix.com/how-to-enable-rpm-fusion-repository-in-fedora-rhel/

I’m also struggling to get Earthworm Jim from GOG working on my Steam Deck through heroic, so I’m following your journey with attention.

What’s really annoying in my case is that it worked without installing anything except Heroic at the beginning and now it doesn’t anymore and I don’t know what change is responsibles for the situation…

It’s Signal and Threema leadership as they were saying it would compromise their security level and would allow Meta to gather information about their users.

That’s a risk I’d be willing to take as long as it’s opt in. For now I still kind of have Whatsapp Business as kind of read only application for some groups I can’t convince to move to another app…

My cloud provider (kDrive by Infomaniak) is « green » but I have to admit I wouldn’t know how to self host on it even if I could.

Thanks, I know about it but it’s above my technical level and self hosting means having a computer running 24/7 which I don’t want.

I think Signal they (Signal and Threema) missed an opportunity to gain users by allowing an opt-in compatibility with Whatsapp.

Yeah I’m using Whatsapp Business for groups I can’t convince to move (it allows me to have an automated message to say I won’t answer on Whatsapp), Signal for people who could move but won’t pay anything and Threema for almost everyone else including my family.

I wish Signal or Threema would allow a selected opt in interoperability with Whatsapp so that I could really ditch it.

I’ve read 70% of your guide and it seems great. I just hope people (not on Lemmy) will easily find it on the web when looking for help.

Good work for our community 👍

To be honest I don’t think so.

When using Peertube or Xoutube I always use 720p to avoid stuttering.

But for everything else it has been performing well for 5 years.

I have a Surface Go1 8GB of Ram with a typecover keyboard and it’s been great running Fedora Workstation for years.

I use it most’y docked to a bigger screen but it’s my daily driver.

I understand your feeling as I like the Apple classy touch and would love to find it elsewhere.

I guess you’re gonna have to compromise on something as I don’t know about any laptop bring all of these things.

Surface Go 1: Had problems with my bluetooth mouse being slow to be detected. Also sometime it’s slow until I connect and disconnect the screen it’s hooked up to. Otherwise works flawlessly.

MacBook Pro 2012: Sometimes I have to reinstall some drivers for the wifi. Otherwise works flawlessly.

Both run Fedora 42. So I’d advise you to not give up and maybe just switch distro👍

The game was okay, but clearly worse than the first one.

I also got annoyed by the fact that the main character was a nice sensitive guy willing to kill 20 security guards just doing their daily job😅

Steam Deck:

• Steam for most games because of ease of use on the Deck and what they provide to the Linux world
• GOG for old games with no achievments (I’d buy more from them if they were more Linux oriented, but I also understand they can’t do everything)

Playstation 5:

• physical except for a few exceptions as I want to be able to resell games I don’t like. I buy new physical games when I know I’m gonna love a game and used when I ain’t sure

Yes I heard about it but apparently NixOS is quite complex and not accessible to someone like me who considers himself as an eternal Linux newbie.

I’ve never tried an immutable OS, but I’d love if the ability to do system backups and redeploy to another computer was just part of any OS.

Especially when Linux encourages you to distro hopp.

Clonezilla is great but it already happened to me that one backup wasn’t deployable on another (really old) computer

I’m looking forward to getting an old ARM computer and installing Linux without any worry one day🤞

Good news even if it might not help with the usershare👍

My god your install process sounded really difficult.

This coming from someone running a Surface Go 1 and MacBook Pro 2012 which weren’t really linux friendly for the install process.

In the future, I’ll probably only get used devices as I’m kind of anti consumerism, but I’ll be careful to always get something reslly Linux friendly.

My last experience with anything from Dell was my first Linux install in the 00’s and it was really easy. I guess Dell has regressed in this regard.

Anyway welcome to Linux!

Oh I’ve never heard of the Nix configuration tool. I might look into it when the need arises.

Interesting post.

I’ve always been really interested about immutable distros, but I haven’t broken my Fedora Workstation 42 yet, so I won’t switch until I do.

What would be a game changer for me is a distro that you could easily replicate (settings, apps and data) from one computer to another. From what I know Nix is the closest thing but it ain’t easy to approach…