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I can report that the HP ENVY X360 15-eu0013ca has a Wacom display and pen and it works perfectly under Linux.
Yay go Alice!
…need your mom for anything?
It’s a libre implementation of RDP. Regardless of who pioneered it, it’s still open-source software, and Microsoft needs to keep RDP backwards compatible so it’s unlikely they’ll break it.
Worst case, FreeRDP can just go and do its own thing regardless of Microsoft
ITT: People who think they know better than security researchers
Ah yes, I see you too have watched a certain Michael MJD video
I debated posting there, I think I’ll crosspost
They’re over 10 years old at this point, Windows 10 released in 2015, 9 years ago.
Unfortunately, yes, we are old!
I use a plumbing snake, works better
“bloat” = it has features I don’t like
Most Lemmy servers have alternative interfaces btw
Android is not Linux, it is derived from it. The two are not API compatible, and Android ripped out most of what made Linux Linux to be able to support binary blob drivers, direct Dalvik JVM support in the kernel and other funky stuff.
It’s as much Linux as macOS’ XNU kernel is FreeBSD.
Definitely, he should try using Linux in a typical Microsoft-driven corporate environment with a regular laptop for a month and see how it is.
Microsoft is in bed with Canonical though, so Snaps are their preferred method of software delivery.
You do make a good point that there is a decent selection of proprietary software on Linux, but some of these are half-assed attempts (Discord, Zoom, Proton), and the vast majority of vendors are not thinking about Linux at all.
Vendors don’t give a shit about Linux.
Beggars can’t be choosers.
fårt øn me, Bjork