and the third has stated they will not implement age attestation methods.

Do you have a source l, I went looking earlier and couldn’t find anything

I don’t think they were referring to Linux in general, I think it was specifically talking about Fedora

If I were to take a guess, it is because it requires you to do software installation via CLI. If you are looking for a distro with a software store, I would say fedora or lmde is the move

I can’t help you there, I don’t personally use cachy I am just making assumptions based upon what I have heard and how it works on other distros

Packages != kernel, so probably not. I don’t know how power usery you want to be, if fine with some tinkering then staying with arch makes sense and as I said in the prior post I recommend endeavoros. If you want no tinkering, kubuntu is fine I would just lookup snaps and see what you are getting yourself into, and if that turns you away I would recommend mint lmde.

Some quick googling tells me that their optimized packages require 12th gen or newer, so that is likely what was messing you up. here is the link I found if you are interested, but I think your hardware is just to old.

I don’t know how old your hardware is, but iirc cachyos’s kernel specifically doesn’t support older hardware, so it could be that it is just too old. If I were you I would try out endeavoros if you can deal with a little more technical package management or you could use the base arch kernel on cachy. Of course your switch to kubuntu should continue to work assuming it was a kernel issue, I just don’t like canonicals vision.

Iirc manjaro changes the package management to not be rolling release, I think you would have to add back in the base arch repos and risk versioning issues.

I can’t agree that there are none, there are just few. If I was in the market for a midrange laptop at the moment I would probably go with this idea pad which should be good for the basics and should be able to do productivity tasks, albeit slowly: definetly not what I would call e-waste

Imo $500-700 is squarely midrange when it comes to laptops, the low end is populated with the e-waste that is shitty $200-300 HP laptops

I always laugh when I hear about meta’s end to end encryption because it isn’t remotely true in the sense that people would care about from a privacy standpoint. I know it is the case for messenger, I have not confirmed for other meta services, but in messenger the messages are encrypted in the way you would expect with the one big caveat being that meta stores your private keys on their servers. Iiirc meta explained that it is still e2e because they don’t unencrypt it which I find hilarious.

I don’t know what a x-kiosk is, that might work, in any case if someone is on gnome or KDE, any solutions that rely on x11 will be deprecated in 2 & 3 major versions respectively

That is operating under the assumption that you aren’t using Wayland, as far as I could determine after a few hours of tinkering the only way to get a remote desktop to work under Wayland is by using an app that queries the xdg portal since Wayland’s harden permissions will stop xwayland based remote desktop solutions.

I use rustdesk over LAN for my remote desktop which has been rather stable and quick, although I don’t know the exact protocol that it uses, so if rdp is necessary I wouldn’t know of that is satisfactory for op’s needs.

I always thought of it going the other way, leave osx relatively untouched and make phones run on it, rather than taking ios as the standard.

Iirc the general assumption in tech spaces was that ios and macos are going to merge in two or three major versions, so I would imagine that apple is aware of this want in their consumer base as well.

Maybe I’m misreading, but it seems like this only applies in the context of sex crimes. I see no reason based upon the wording that they couldn’t do it for other things even with this in place

That’s just because amazon doesn’t tag it correctly, there were easily 5 models when you just had Linux as a search term. And I also disagree that variety is necessary for laptop listings to be considered viable, it’s not like non technical people are even looking at specs anyway.

There are quite a few listings for Linux computers on amazon now, granted most of them are in the premium range, >here is one in the mid range of prices with comparable specs to the new macbook

LOL those are all like $2k

I’ll give you that if you want it officially supported they tend to come with those price tags, although i did find this one which is officially supporting linux at the midrange price tag Laptop, I mainly mean that the individual components are supported which you could determine through a little bit of research, but generally speaking if you don’t want to pay the premium, you should be prepared for a little bit of trouble shooting, but normally it is only for the webcam nowadays. Overall, I have changed the os on many of my laptops, and they have always either had no missing functionality after installation or had a forum that explained how to fix its issues that was a one and done fix.

if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.> I don’t think you understand what this is…

Could you be more specific about what you mean? I don’t think I claimed anything that would be out of the purview of fractional scaling.

That Is almost always a hardware compatibility issue, if you get a machine that is specifically meant for Linux, even the jankiest of distros will not have all but the last issue, and for the last one if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.