#System76

[cyncrovee]

I just tried the COSMIC DE and I'm quite impressed! Definitely stuff rough around the edges but overall it works fine and is really snappy, even on my relatively low-end laptop.

It's like if GNOME was good/lh

[dibelonious]

Is System76 the Apple of the Linux world?

[ghedin]

System76 Launch (2022).

[southernspiritnorthernheart]

I really like what I see with System76. I’ve been playing around with Pop! OS for a while now and I really like it. The feel of both the OS and the company takes me back to the heady days of the 90s and early aughts in a very positive way.

As Microsoft, Google, and, sadly, Apple all have turned out to be in bed with government and anti both freedom and humanity, we all have to look for where to go next. System76 looks very good to me so far.

[kelleyskovron]

GIMME!!!!

[gender-trash]

ups TRIED to deliver my laptop BACK TO ME yesterday and i wasn't there... im trying to figure out if they're taking him to the ups store so i can pick him up or back to my house or what (last night the tracking website said ups store but today it says it's in SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO so who the hell knows) like. just stop moving him i'll hunt down the delivery truck on my little electric scooter i'll do it!!! feel like pure shit just want him back fr

[mountmortar]

i love how i put 40GB of RAM on my personal laptop knowing damn well that i'm never going need that much RAM for anything

[andmaybegayer]

One of the zanier things becoming more popular with containers is "Read-only operating systems"

The idea is that you have an immutable base OS, and then all your applications are installed in containers where they can't touch each other. Strong security improvements without the virtualization overhead of something like QubesOS

[kradeelav]

What are your favorite brushes?

Ha, you timed that well as I was considering making a 'what tools do I use' post. information wants to be free and all of that ~

Before I get into specific brushes, I need to mention hardware. Two years ago i switched permanently to linux (Ubuntu distro), via a system76 laptop. Linux isn't for the tech-fainthearted, but if you hav a passion for playing with computers and are feeling increasingly constricted with the subscription BS that mac/win is pushing, consider giving it a trial run.

Krita is an open-sourced free paint/vector program that's available on all major OS's (win/mac/linux), but is by far the best one for linux. Frankly, I adore Krita; it reminds me of the best of paint tool SAI way back in the day, a little of photoshop CS2, and I just discovered in the past two weeks it's got some deceptively powerful vector tools for speech bubbles and comics. open source programs used to be pretty pathetic compared to "professional" ones but the gap between krita and say, CSP is pretty nil.

Now to talk brushes: I uploaded a slightly older version of my go-to brushes here on mediafire, some which have been slightly tweaked from krita defaults. there's a solid pen one, a halftone brush, and some watercolor ones.

however, I discovered these brushes (thanks to @am-herrington) a few months ago and am convinced the linked newer brushes are going to make everything else I have obsolete - the natural/textural inking is just that good. tl;dr - just grab these.

some other odds and ends to my process: i could not draw without the hydrus network which is essentially a booru-esque media organizing program. stores gifs, images, can mass-download images, and has a robust tagging ability. taco's drawing book is one of the one I'll also reliably flip through when my brain's trying to figure out a piece of tricky anatomy. lastly, blambot is my trusted go-to font store when I'm in need of a manga/comics related font; there's some very generous pricing and freebies for indie comics.

[addiment]

just sold my soul to @system76, feeling great so far

[daemonhxckergrrl]

im in the market for a laptop and hate windows, do you have a recommendation for laptops that dont mind linux on them(not sure what specific flavor of OS yet likely debian/arch). I have heard old thinkpads are good for this sort of thing but i dont know where to start

thinkpads are a solid choice - and the newer ones also work just fine w/ linux (though, like most modern devices, lack the upgradability of older models).

another option would be something from system76.

tbh i've had pretty good success across most laptops - one of the biggest things is wifi card, but they tend to be one of the few parts you can still replace on a modern laptop.

oh, the other thing that can be an issue is hybrid graphics. i've not had any experience w/ that so can't really advise you

[ubuntu-official]

System76 are like the only people who can make GNOME actually good.

[hackernewsrobot]

Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment

https://system76.com/cosmic

[southernspiritnorthernheart]

[gender-trash]

okayyyyy system76 got my laptop on tuesday and started evaluating it and i havent heard anything since ;-;

when will he return from war!!!!

[corvuscorona]

shopping for a laptop. obviously I will be slapping linux on it immediately if it comes with anything else. checked out a bunch of brands; asus lenovo whatever they happen to have at costco (I don't believe people who say dell is worthwhile in 2023, tho). checked out everywhere that does linux-first machines (there are a handful of these places now!). most of them are more expensive and/or in europe but at least the configuration interface makes it slightly easier to understand what specs you'll be working with. (SLIGHTLY.)

I approach these with an amount of skepticism because, like, whatever, but also laptops seem like largely unpredictable nightmares compared to PCs you build yourself [1] and it's not like I DON'T want to give money to someone who's doing Linux Computers TM instead of someone shipping windows god damn fucking eleven. But also I don't want fucking 13th gen (THEY RUN TOO HOT. LEAVE ME ALONE) and it's easier to get older [2] processors when you're not shopping on a website catering specifically to nerds? [3]

This post is actually not "about" "this" but my point is I kind of landed on the system76 pangolin, which IS a Linux-first object (with 12th-gen hardware right now altho it is AMD which I say not because I'm an intel-head or anything but just because I Have Never Had Thos, but then again I have never shopped for a laptop before either so whatever), and also is like REALLY affordable compared to everything else in its general class I've been looking at, which is neat but anyway my POINT

is that in multiple places now I have seen ppl mention that the biggest downside. they perceive. of this computer. is that it has a barrel charger instead of thunderbolt, which.

IT'S TIME FOR ME TO BE OLD FOR ONE SECOND.

BARREL CHARGER: round. nondirectional. easy to locate the port. bending it would take a feat of on-purpose strength.

THUNDERBOLT: thinnest fucking flimsiest fucking roundtangle I've ever met; can only be plugged in 2 ways; port is TINY and the weight of the cord makes it feel like I'm bending the fucking plug JUST by having it do its ONE JOB.

I GENUINELY FAIL TO SEE THE PROBLEM.

[1] I say this as someone who had The Stupidest Driver Problem On Planet Earth immediately upon starting her newly-built PC + did not solve it for like a week or two. I think about the potential for Weird Laptop Problems and I Become Scared.

[2] Literally I just want alder lake. To Be Honest With You; "older" I hate computers.

[3] I'd say "SYSTEM76 I AM LOOKING AT YOU" but, well !!!