do you buy directly from tongeng? i was always under they assumption that they didn’t sell to individuals.

mine’s on its last legs since i’m such a klutz w it; but it’s a trooper like my tuxedo was.

very true and i’m waiting for them to expand further into their laptops for my next purchase.

when i bought one, they were nothing more than re-badged clevo and tongfeng laptops.

that means that they costed a little bit more than windows based laptops with the same specs; but it also means that there was no headaches with hardware compatibility and that the battery life was better if you chose your hardware correctly. (it’s also smooth sailing if you pay for the support).

i bought from kfocus most recently and it turns out it’s not any different than tuxedo and i suspect that all the linux laptop companies are the same; besides system76 who have started building their own laptops instead of re-badging clevo/tongfeng.

bingo and thank you

exactly what i needed; thank you.

I want x11 over ssh

it’s just fedora and, even then, because of ibm’s acquisition of red hat.

money and american hegemony have tried to enshitify linux many times in the past; but linux keeps on chugging along anyways.

apparently: the same goes for its patrons; i’m sure i’m responsible for atleast 1 percentage point. lol

Veronica Explains did a fascinating video on multimedia generation a little while ago.

it’s not exactly what you’re seeking, but my own experiences with going outside the norm with multimedia in linux gets you into niche territory REALLY fast and the best way to find you’re seeking to ask people; so i would ask Veronica if they know anyone who might be able to help.

seconding this; unless you’re paying for it: they use your data to make money and have (and do) make use of your data as leverage to get you to pay more.

setting up your own home server that’s accessible to the internet is much cheaper, but it does come with risks that you must make yourself aware of to mitigate.

I suspect that this is the story for most Linux users; windows failing at a critical need

windows doesn’t show linux partitions correctly.

did you have it setup to ask you which operating system you wanted to boot and do you still see it?

in 2002 when my windows me computer start looping on the blue screen of death, with all of my college papers/essays/tests/assignments trapped in it.

the recovery media refused to work because i had upgraded the computer several times and i couldn’t afford the $180 windows xp cd. so i bought a linux magazine for $5 that included a copy of mandrake linux installation media and used paper printouts from my college’s computer labs to help me rescue my work from the computer.

vim should make yaml editing easier and you’re familiarity with vi should help a lot.

are you using a graphical editor to edit the file?

will nano or vim work?

xmodmap was meant to work with x11 so it shouldn’t be a surprise that it doesn’t work very well w wayland.

instead, you’ll want to use a combination of libinput and evdev along w gnome/kde tools or input-remapper/wlr-inputremapper if you’re not using either.

i used to be one of those maintainers. it was my job to build server and container images so i had to spend a lot of time with the company’s internal distro maintainers and it always blew me away how much work they had to do.

HEAVY emphasis on the words “labor of love” … should be getting paid for this and i know for a fact that people who do this professionally make around $200k a year for doing it becuase i worked with them for up until a couple weeks ago at old-silicon.

i’ve always been in awe of people who do this; it goes well beyond linux from scratch and they’ll never get rewarded for doing it… it’s purely a labor of love.