Ehhh, kinda. Intel E-cores kinda throw off the balance a bit, but generally yeah.

Try using rusticl for your OpenCL implementation. It runs OpenCL on top of Vulkan, which is very well supported by Radeon cards.

Chromebooks use a customized Linux kernel with often proprietary code included from the manufacturer. Same thing as Android in that sense.

Upstream Linux, using mostly open-source code, does not have these bits of proprietary code in most cases. This means that ARM devices are frequently missing some drivers under mainline Linux, so things like TouchPad, wifi, or even GPU might be partially or fully unsupported.

Armbian Linux supports a large number of devices using mainline Linux with some tweaks to it pre-configured, but typically you’re not going to get every feature of the hardware supported until several years after its release (like 5+).

x86 on the other hand usually will just work out of the box, especially Lenovo laptops.

You probably want EndlessOS

Agreed, LXQT is the removed if you want a slow machine to go faster and look decent while doing it.

Yeah, I’m team @umbrella@lemmy.ml on this one. It’s important but it’s not revolutionary

Mint with XFCE or MATE

This isn’t mystery, they’re saying any old command that prints out or copies a file’s contents will do.

If you need to use a tool that “just works” without growing your own understanding, there’s plenty of GUI-centric bootable USB writers out there.

It’s not getting abandoned, it’s just having some major components redone.

Ubuntu Studio 8.04, I believe. I was a broke high schooler looking for free recording software.

kisak-mesa PPA takes about 30 seconds to install and runs great.

Or are you saying you want mesa-git?

I use Mint on my gaming PC because I want minimum friction when it’s time to game. It should always just work, never boot up and need to roll back the kernel, Mesa version, etc.

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I’d recommend Linux Mint with the XFCE desktop over Xubuntu, because they’re mostly the same thing but Mint doesn’t use Snap packages by default while Ubuntu does and Mint is better suited for desktop usage due to their various nice little config tools.

I’ve never owned one, so I can’t say for certain, sorry

You might be better off getting an Android tablet and installing Linux on top of Android.

Since you’re interested in KDE, why not try Fedora Kinoite?

It’s an immutable distribution in much the same was as Steam OS 3. For individual pieces of software, you just install Flatpak versions. It’s deeply convenient if you don’t want to perform maintenance on your PC and want it to “just work”.

If that’s not noob friendly, what is?

I love your spirit here, but please add punctuation to your comments in the future.

I use both, but Mint is strictly better if you want a no-fuss system that just works and will continue to do so