Tech support. Knowing you have available staff who understand how to fix issues. And will take responsibility
These are always the questions that sell commercial software over os to big corporations.
Anyone who has ever worked in a big corp recognises the arguments even if they disagree.
Microsoft will offer to build a big data warehouse there then.
For m$ it is very much about not having a big gov org successfully moved over. As then corps may consider it.
Again.
Every few years we hear a nations gov say this. Them m$ makes a deal to good to be true. And it all resets.
It’s basically become an accounting trick for national govs.
I have one I paid a little more for a year ago. So likely the same things internally.
I use it occatioally on my boat with a mini pc or pi 400.
The only negative is the usb c power port dose tend to get disconnected. And it takes about 15secs to reinitialise.
This really is only an issue when trying to use in unstable ways. On the whole well worth what I paid at the time.
I now have 2 newer non touch screen 18 inch ones. One 4k one 2k at an comparable higher price. I’m happy but the general usb connection loos es and reconnection delays are identical.
slackware followed by red hat mothers day 2.0 also used LMDE for several years
Agreed. As I say blender is less fast on amd. Atm
I don’t play games much. 0ad being the main exception.
But yeah I’d never advise a non blender user to go Nvidia.
Yeah. Unfortunately blender is still noticably faster on Nvidia cards. Due to cuda and optic support.
I only have a 4060 though. Next time I upgrade, give. How bad the 50s release is. I will look again and compare higher end amd stuff. Likely a few years away though.
i been linux only for over 30 years now.
I tend to use Debian stable. At least for the last 15 or so.
The reason is simple. I use it as my main PC and the stability is my main priority.
The only negative is software in the repos is often out of date.
But honestly while that was a pain in the past. Now for the vast majority of things I use. I find flat pack or appimage downloads work perfect ally.
The only exception is ham radio software. Here I tend to compile later versions if I need/want them.
Other negatives
I’m really not hugely into gaming. But use blender a lot. Due to this I use Nvidia cards as they are far better supported by blender.
Installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers is a bit of a pain on Debian for newbies. But once you know the process its simple enough. Just not obvious for beginners. The community drivers are still very limited thanks to Nvidia s weird ideas.
Don’t give up so easy. Pretty sure it can be expanded to fit you on the bed.
Nice to meet a fellow old fart linux user.
Yep, there are ways to do a full installation onto a thumb drive.
While It’s not exactly complex. It does tend to require more understanding of how file system mounting works than the audience OP is indicating would have.
It is likely time to create a user/id10t friendly app designed to download and fully install any ISO as a live thumb drive.
That will still need some help for odd hardware. But for most it would be a fair option.
Yeah thanks for the effort. You would be stunned at how many web sites make no effort.
Many modern web sites often fail miserably, especially scripted ones. But mostly because companies just don’t care. As you say it is hard work. So when companies outsource that hard work is rarely if ever asked for up front. And the cost to modify existing site is hugew…
But remember if we are talking software. Again all the pro measures are based on 0 or 100% able. So again leave all disabled depending on solutions that slow down workload.
All the laws on the West only require reasonable accomadations. And being less productive is never considered reasonable. Or in anyway a hope for a successful career.
So with so much software moving to Web apps. Those AA standards rarely help beyond making the page usable. If your career depends on performance as almost all do. Most disabled are not able to efficiently use them.
Honestly best approach is to find some small projects you feel need help. Introduce yourself to the development team and offer time and suggestions. Eventually one will say yes.
But as a visually impaired developer I’ll give you a heads up. Most pro non foss ui is freaking awfull for accessibility. The choices made over the last 20 year are just bad. OS is far from perfect. But I find the interfaces generally work way better with enlarged text then anything using modern UI ideals.
So please if you get involved. Remember accessibility is more complex the let voice assist work. Most blind folks have some vision. And rellying on the Systems accessibility options is not enough for us to be able to use software in a competitive way.
OS software using the UIs designers seem to dislike. Is generally more customisable for font sizes and colour options accross different parts of the system. In ways able folks would just never consider. This allows us to actually layout software so we only need magnifiers or text readers for things we individually rarely need to read. But can increase the stuff we do in ways that allow us to work at competitive speeds.
Modern UI design is pecomming less accessible as the software becomes much more complex but developers of ui tools seem to see disability as a 0 or 100% slowing disabled users with some ability down to the point they are unemployable.
Please please try to avoid moving the OS stuff we can use that way as well.
Go get drunk. You deserve it.
Blender supports cuda for much of its gpu work. It will work with amd. And there are projects allowing gpu rendering via amd. But they are (and have been for a while) a long way behind the cuda stuff.
For major rendering projects nvidia is still the fastest set up to use.
AMD. Unless you need blender.
I think you underestimate the hate.
For the organisations that want to deny the ideals suggested. Using software under such a licence would lose them support. So when developers select such a licence. The software itself gets recognised as such. Meaning any shitty organisation using it gets labeled unacceptable to their very user base.
So requiring the acceptance of these facts would have the same effect as anything else.
Ssh x11 forwarding has been a popular system for decades. (Id love to know if wayland options exist yet)
But as other have suggested you need x11 on both systems. It is very inbuilt into the way x11 was originally designed. (From back when we had huge shared servers and dumbish xterm workstations. This means it was designed to do much of the work on the server end with the display being the lower cost less able system.
It will work on a pie. But not with the lite os system as designed.
Travelling I assume. Printing very much depends on the fillament etc. not much a printer can do to change that. But a nearly 30% increase in travel speed has a significant effect on the over all time.