cough steam deck cough

How long until this trickles down into the major distros?

It’s happenend with the AUR too.

Snaps however have a certain expectation that newer/inexperienced users should be able to trust them.

It’s not extreme. This is an opinion piece posted on OMGUbuntu, so I’ll let you figure out where their biases lie.

Mint.

It’s been a while so I’m not entirely certain. I just know that they were unique to Suse and no other distro gave me the same problems.

Suse, every time I’ve tried it I’ve just been like yeah, nah after running into some weird issue.

You use it because you like to be efficient your use of a computer.

I use it because I’m a bossy arsehole and I like telling things precisely what to do.

We are not the same.

Ubuntu attacted a lot of control freaks because Shuttleworth was originally splashing some money when it started and a bunch of nerds saw dollar signs. As a result they have a culture of “not invented here” syndrome where someone just has to reinvent the wheel in only the way they see it and they don’t work well with others or accept their input because they want all the credit.

Personally, I got sick of it having been pretty involved early on in the project. It’s easier and saner to just use a distro based on what everyone else is doing.

When you have like 30 kids in a class and a limited budget then yeah, makes a lot of sense to come up with solutions like this.

For these two though if I knew them I’d just straight up give them a second PC for free to save them the hassle. You can do amazing things with refurbished PCs when budget and space constraints are a problem.

You could have a look at ex-business slimline PCs or laptops if two cases are out of the question. They’ll take up less space overall than the typical PC case and are usually pretty power efficient. The former can also be upgraded if you are careful with what you choose and find the right slimline GPUs to fit in said cases. This is what I used to do for my kids particularly with ex-Dell PCs.

The thing is that you’re not going to get a whole lot for your old parts, certainly not more than the benefit you gain by having a second PC, as by the time you sell it the parts would have depreciated in value quite a lot. But, it’s neat I guess that PCs allow you to do stuff like this even if it would result in a bit of frustration.

You still need all the physical space that two PCs require except for the box which is only a small part of it. You still need all the peripherals for two people and once the 3060s are in it the power difference will be negligible between one or two PCs. On top of that you have all the inconvenience and problems that using in multiseat brings. Network gear is dirt cheap and maintaining two PCs is less hassle Vs this too.

Personally I think at the end of the day you’re better off with two PCs even if the second one is a cheap second hand one. Especially since I assume the GPUs mean they’re planning on gaming on it.

They practically are though once they upgrade it with two 3060s and the CPU.

What advantage do you get using one PC in this way instead of two?

It’s actually really great… if you know how to interpret and apply the information on it to your situation and adapt as needed. A good new user experience it does not make however.

This is me too and why I no longer use Arch btw.

Ex-corporate refurbished laptop from the last 3 or 4 years for about $300 tops is perfect for this.

https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper

This isn’t a jar of honey it’s a mass produced electronic device that’s only made in a select few factories in the world with some custom branding on it. Lenovo has just given them some old stock which they’re trying to flip. Very different scenario to a mom and pop store entirely.

You are right in everything except that it’s absolutely not the superior option in OPs situation. A lawyer has to guarantee that a document is identical and recallable in its exact form even years from now and the only way to absolutely ensure this is using Office itself.

Furthermore, most law firms use and have to access other parties document management systems and the thick clients for these with all the features only run on Windows. Screwing around with WINE to get these maybe working isn’t worth the hassle for a time-poor lawyer with cases to work on.

Computers are just another tool in the box when it comes to your business and you should use the best version of it to get the job done. It’s simply only Windows in OPs case here that’s the viable option. It might be corruption or vendor lock in or whatever but there’s no point trying to fight it in this scenario.