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I have no idea what any of these does. I might just aswell be unknowingly installing a keylogger or something.
This actually applies to windows GUI installers just the same. You really don’t know what you’re installing either, although you do usually give it administrator permission to make changes to the system. In some way it’s even worse, it’s “running commands” and hiding it from you.
Same, really love them, as you can wear them for hours and they cause no pressure or uncomfort. ANC is great too. I use them for work.
Depends what device you run, but Xournal++ is useful. Otherwise pdftk.
It’s my daily driver. It has incredible compatibility and very nice features, for example the rule based filter actions, header matching, which immensely boosts my workflow efficiency. Not to mention the calendars and tasks integration and the great extensibility via the plugin system.
Thunderbird is a great example of community driven awesomeness.
I’ve been burnt by my unix arrogance enough times
Same here, haha. As long as you stay away from ideas like “compiling your kernel from scratch” you’ll be fine.
Look up which distros come with drivers/documentation for your hardware (different for many MacBook versions) especially the WiFi/Bluetooth chipset.
Don’t try anything fancy, unless you have a surplus of life energy and time to waste.
2010 MacBook Pro, still runs Arch with ease (back when I set it up I had more time than I do now, would go with a less DIY-ish distro nowadays, probably something Debian based)
The only chore was to get the RTC alarm wake up working, which was a bit hacky.
This guy deutsch’s
Bubbles tend to pop sometimes.