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  • On desktop PCs, Depending upon the Motherboard manufacturer and model series, it could either mean nothing other than some gaming marketing jargon or…

    When a motherboard has both red and blue ports, the Red ones could be those connected directly to the CPU lanes for USB, with the blue ones being routed through the PCH.
    If there is just one red coloured USB A port, it might be designated for BIOS updates (unless they have another colour for that).



  • Swype typing can get pretty fast tbh. But that greatly depends upon the software.
    Despite the hate it got, Windows Phone’s default keyboard had a far superior swype experience as compared to Android and iOS. Probably because they didn’t try to inculcate all user words into their dictionary and used the sentence structure as a reference to rank the predicted words.

    Had this one been OSS, it would have been a great service. But now it has been scrapped along with the rest of Windows Phone. One of the reasons why I hate to think of what would happen to any high effort thing I make in a company.









  • Steam ⇒ No Ubuntu

    For Word/Excel alternatives, I would suggest LibreOffice fresh. So, go with one that gives recent versions of it [1].

    can I operate a Linux PC these days without needing to troubleshoot or type code.

    That will vary greatly depending upon your Hardware selection. I was lucky enough to manage a good enough setup (adding extra effort to check Motherboard components) for Linux support and still have a few problems. [I am unable to get CPU fan speed (tachometer reading).]

    I like Endeavour OS, but it being rolling on Arch, means, it is for someone who is happy with troubleshooting and bug reporting.

    I had tried Open SUSE for a bit (back then, I hardy knew Linux) and liked that too.

    Debian probably won’t work either, because, even though it is something you probably won’t need to troubleshoot for years, once setup, Steam will make it hard for you and Discord, well, no idea. I removed it after declining the new TOS.


    1. I hated the problems with older versions, which seem to be greatly reduced in the newer ones ↩︎


  • sympathy for naive users, and FOSS devs mainly do not

    From what I have seen, KDE devs that I interacted with, had a higher tolerance for mistakes, than I would want to have for myself.

    I once submitted a wish for Kate, which was also submitted multiple times before and marked as Won’t Fix, because: a) low demand; b) nobody to do it.
    But when I started trying to implement it, I as given more help than I should have asked for.

    So, it’s probably just about chance. Don’t let a few rejections stop you. If you consider it useful, even if it gets rejected now, someone will see it eventually. And some programmer might find it worth implementing.


  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlIs Linux As Good As We Think It Is?
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    11 days ago

    Yes.

    I absolutely hated the feeling of helplessness when I found a problem somewhere, when using Windows.
    On Linux, I am happy to give bug reports/ wishlist reports and follow through with them. Maybe even fix something, if I feel like I can. That (and the higher transparency in communication) makes me much more forgiving of problems I may find anywhere.



  • You were allowed a page “cheat sheet” to use on the exams, and the exams were pretty much the same problems with the numbers changed.

    That seems like the worst way of making an exam.
    In case the cheat sheet were not there, it would at least be testing something (i.e. how many formulae you memorised), albeit useless.

    When you let students have a cheat sheet, it is supposed to be obvious that this will be a HOTS (higher order thinking skills) test. Well, maybe for teachers lacking said HOTS, it was not obvious.