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In case people didn’t know what company he was referring to. /s

What’s the experience so far?

I see it more of a limitation, you don’t want your laptop to warm (and it shouldn’t in light use), but you want to cool it for the few times it does.

I think UEFI was something that took a while to be standardized and mostly because of Intel’s influence over it, while ARM seems more diverse both in manufacturers and types of devices. When things are decentralized it becomes much more difficult to get everyone on board of something.

I don’t think the people excited about Linux are using or talking about Ubuntu, though, which probably skews people’s perceptions if they’re on Lemmy and Reddit a lot. Enthusiast spaces have all the “I run arch btw” people and even weirder and more obscure distros.

This is exactly the thing. 10 years ago when I was in college, everybody just used Ubuntu for laptops, and nowadays I don’t hear about it at all. I had the impression it kinda died, but seems like things are more or less the same.

I wonder what percentage of desktop users still use Ubuntu nowadays. Seems like there’s no way to have a clear picture, besides DistroWatch which is more like “interest” and not actual usage?

There’s also the issue of testing all the packages. They have to make sure all the versions frozen in the repository will work smoothly together.

Seems like quite a lot of people on Reddit are suffering from some random apps (such as the phone app) taking gigabytes of space, which didn’t happen before.

But then, if it depends on customers to collectively stop buying something, we’re doomed already.

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Used to be the MacOS and iOS subreddits.

Today I learned

Besides bigger batteries make phones heavier pretty quickly. For mobile devices, optimized system and apps is very important.

I mean, comparing it to Python is kinda unfair as Rust is closer to C and Python is one of the slowest languages out there. There is a whole spectrum of languages between Rust and Python. The final reason was probably that the devs were comfortable enough with Rust.