What’s this tiny laptop?
It’s funny to frame it as bravery. Maybe that’s clickbait strategy. Regardless desktop Linux is great. Only a handful of kernel level anticheat games are a problem. No you don’t need adobe suite for your YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok influencer aspirations. Even open source applications that don’t stack up to Adobe or Avid or whatever exceed what’s needed to succeed in social media. More than enough for what amounts to solo projects
What’s the tiny laptop? I’d love to have one, especially if that’s available as a cheap useless piece of electronics I can slap Linux into.
Its a vaio c1
Oh, thank you! The link is very detailed. I’ll try to hunt one down. I like to try this for text editing.
Wish there was a way to switch my phone to Linux without it having to be a new hobby to learn.
Yeah, if you have a Pixel, GrapheneOS looks to be the least complicated, but it’s still daunting. I haven’t tried it yet.
I echo Hominine’s comments - the most difficult part of installing GrapheneOS is getting your hands on Pixel hardware (for a good price).
I’m going to attempt to kindly countermand this, there is a web installer for chrome based browsers that I believe anyone intelligent enough to navigate the fediverse can step through easily enough.
The base install with play services enabled is a stock android experience all things considered; the extra features and additional security are there for those that want to engage with it.That is my push to get you going. =)
I’ve done this with an old Pixel (partly to wipe the phone, and partly as a hope that if it’s refurbished/resold, the new owner will have Graphene). If you can read and follow a recipe, it’s virtually stupid-proof. I don’t remember having to know anything for which the directions didn’t specify or offer explicit directions.
I did this my my new pixel 8 pro. I loved it.
It was so easy, it worked, I was in control of my device.Contactless payment didn’t work.
Which is a deal breaker for me.I looked at some fin-tech solutions, I even bought a pixel watch (which didnt work because I have a workspace account). None of them let me work around the issue. Contactless just wouldn’t work.
Had to go back to stock android.
I’m constantly checking in on their attribution/verification/whatever status that would allow them to offer contactless payment (currently offered by android/apple/banks, but no open source software).
I want grapheneos and contactless so badly!
lol, “now”
Linux has been good for at least 20 years for everything but Microsoft Flight Simulator and Adobe anything
My many hours spent fighting GPU and WiFi drivers and getting sleep to work properly on laptops just 10 years ago beg to differ lmao
