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  • Lenovo is renowned for their excellent linux compatibility. I’m sure you’ll get a bunch of proponents here saying the same.

    BUT, oh boy. Don’t get me started…

    Too late. Having used various models of thinkpads in recent years, their inconsistent keyboard layouts will drive you absolutely insane. I swear, at this point they’re just fucking with us.

    I’ve got one in pieces somewhere, that has/had the ~ key next to the FN key on the bottom row! How the fuck are you supposed to use Linux if you’re ~ key is down there? It’s fucking stupid.

    Not to mention their keys have a tendency to break off with just the mildest of fist slams.

    AND the latest work-issued recent model is fucking with us again! It has the FN key ON THE LEFT SIDE of the Ctrl key on the left. Who does that? The Ctrl is always the left-most bottom key. Now, every time I fucking go to press Ctrl+something, I end up hitting FN instead.

    Fucking morons! At this rate this laptop will also end up in pieces.

    So, tldr; Stay the fuck away from Lenovo if you want to use Linux and not end up in prison for vehicular homicide.







  • l3mming@lemmy.fmhy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlIs Systemd that bad afterall?
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    Well, no, and that’s the whole problem; Systemd removed choice, and it was designed to do so. That is why there is so much anger. It is bad software design, by design. It flies in the face of the core linux principles, all in the name of homogenising the linux ecosystem, and you know exactly which big corporations benefit from that.

    The simple fact is: today, if I want to run a mainstream distro without Systemd, I cannot. Its cancerous tentacles run so deep that decoupling it from a mainstream distro, and keeping it decoupled, is a full time job.

    Instead I have no choice but to run a smaller, less featured, less secure and less funded alternative.

    Full credit to Devuan, MxLinux, Artix, and the other united underdogs.

    Fuck you Redhat/IBM and your proxy evil-doer Lennart.