For Women's Right Day, the android app store featured the lead of Security and Privacy of this very app. A lady BTW. Fuck me sideways how that was a ton of crap, retrospectively. She said in so many words the usual "privacy foremost" and other such obvious shit, then she also said "no selling ever".
I despair of humanity.
I have a 2013 "air" that was updated to 10.15 (so 64bits) ; I bought it dirt cheap secondhand for one specific app, and out of the box it did update itself when I connected it not so long ago. I changed the battery, too - most resellers include the impossible screwdrivers needed to open the strange tri-lobe screws.
If OP has a use for it, it's not bad hardware with backlit keyboard, a decent screen, lightweight. With a new battery it's a decent all-day workhorse. My main machines are 5th gen Intel, and I remember nothing wrong with 4th gen.
Any distro will run on it, or should. I'd bet you'll get the spinning cube & wobbly windows easy peasy. If it's free, just try it out.
Have fun!
You don't need that: Proton will only surrender accounts/information to local authorities with the appropriate paperwork - and that's their selling point on privacy, swiss law being pretty protective of privacy ; in this case, a corpus of evidence has been submitted by a recognized foreign entity & considered valid for action in regard to swiss law.
That's what makes proton secure for journalists, political opponents and such: no swiss judge will enable any random dictator to get a dissident's info, it won't fly with swiss law. And if that escalates to bogus criminal charges, it is still up to a swiss judge to decide how and if to proceed.
You put your trust in Switzerland here, not in a nerdy business with an atom-smashing background.
The Tumbleweed installer is beautiful, and straightforward. I am not sure how a newcomer would understand, or not, the partition setup if they need to keep windows and dual-boot ; if it's about to wipe the entire machine, it is one of the best, sleekest installers out there. Then package management can be a nightmare if you need to stray out of he beaten path unfortunately. Another argument for TW is the perfect integration of BTRFS, Snapper and Rollback (it is an opensuse project after all) ; I swear I'd still be on TW if it wasn't for some exotic software availabiity.
To me, debian does bring bloat: LibreOffice comes to mind. A default install will feature calendars, mails, weather whatever.
Je suis pas convaincu, et la nouvelle version de la kobo clara était moins chère et étanche - et je "sais" ou je vais. Ou je croyais, voir plus bas. Vivlio c'est juste un re-branding d'un autre fabricant, c'est pas indépendant, c'est DRM et application propriétaire donc bof.
"Nouveauté" kobo, quasi impossible de la démarrer une première fois sans créer de compte (ce ne fut pas le cas avec la clara hd) ; j'ai utilisé mon téléphone pour faire un point d'accès bidon, proton mail pour faire une adresse jetable, et suis quand même assez fâché. Il y a une solution recommandée si tu cherches, elle n'a pas marché pour moi et rebootait le processus d'initialisation chaque fois.
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All that was said here, plus sometimes they don't work. I've reported a bug where the kdenlive flatpak version doesn't render titles or fades - and that's on Debian Testing, Arch, and Asahi Fedora. Native version works perfectly, but forces me to download an untidy amount of KDE stuff on my gnome installs ; flatpak would've been a cool solution to that.
I am yet to report another where Ardour nukes pipewire, at least on Asahi, but on Arch it was misbehaving also. Native, distro-provided version works perfectly.
I don't trust flatpak because no one single publisher can test every possible config, and I'm afraid distros become "lazy" and stop packaging native versions of stuff since it's a lot of work.
It's already on the AUR
C'est la faute à toutes ces normes, là, c'est sûrement un truc européen ou quoi que on peut même pas avoir la taille de marches qu'on veut mais obligé faut casser celles d'avant toutes mignonnes et au nombre de trois conformément à l'affiche parce que ça doit être 19,5 centimètres ou bien t'es pas en règle et tu vas te faire clouer au pilori la tête en bas avec des quignons de pain coincés entre les orteils pour que les pigeons viennent te picorer la plante des pieds.
Ah ben non tiens la dernière marche elle est pas à la même taille. Au pilori !
Better management of the btrfs default settings and cleanup scripts. My install bricked itself because the root partition was 30G and it chocked itself to death (home and all data was elsewhere).
It's fixed by now I think ; I never update between projects, so sometimes would go a few months between updates and it hasn't happen anymore. When it did, the fix was simple enough while still annoying of course.
AFAIK now the keyring gets updated first if needed. In the middle of something here, can't try unfortunately - but at the time of the issue, while the first-level answer was "Update All The Things (all the time)", the problem was on the table, and acknowledged as in need of a fix.
Amazon je peux pas. La paperwhite est la meilleure liseuse que j'aie jamais possédé, avec la puce 3g et l'accès wikipedia partout dans le monde + rétro-éclairage + Calibre (I use Arch btw) + la fluidité du logiciel, c'était la meilleure.
Mais je peux plus quoi. Tout est immonde dans cette entreprise.
Donc après m'être assis dessus, j'ai choisi kobo mais c'est encore pas terrible, dit-on. On les accuse d'être un rouleau compresseur qui tue les petites librairies.
Bon j'ai bien tout regardé le site de vivlio, c'est DRM, application propriétaire etc.
ebook.com has a tickbox in its search tool to look only for drm-free books. I miss-clicked once, buying a locked book & was refunded with zero hassle.
Tachyon Publications straight out does not sell drm-locked books.