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  • DevDave@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or noticeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve been using some variation of Linux since the mid 90’s but never been able to fully switch over. That said I am on my longest and perhaps permanent switch over with KDE EndevourOS (Arch based). I don’t believe this is what you are hoping for but I do believe it is close so perhaps something to keep an eye on for the future.

    I have gotten Teams to run once for a about an hour before it crashed and now I can’t figure out what proton/wine voodoo witch doctor recipe I used.

    No idea what luck you will have with RDP or RustDesk.

    KDE plasma’s window tiling manager is really damn cool but has no documentation. Still you can do neat stuff with it like having a floating window tile on top of another tile (basically an always on top state but on steroids) with distinct tiling arrangements for each virtual desk space.

    Scaling has been good but font support is still at the “almost but still not perfect”. A graphics designer might be in trouble.

    Drivers - This is where Arch’s pacman (software package manager) and pkgbuild really shine. If it can compile and is available as a git repo, an rpm, or deb file then there is a good chance you can get it working. That said there are still an unfortunate mountain of unsupported stuff.

    Otherwise, with all the improvements to Wine via proton and the other forks, it is getting easier to run a lot more Window’s applications.

    Like I said, EndevourOS/Arch with KDE is getting pretty close to being an easy jump from Windows but not 100% perfect.

  • DevDave@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educatorsEnglish
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    19 days ago

    “Alright so this system is called ‘testing’ but you need to get two seniors to sign off plus a good reason to push an update.”

    /What about this system?/

    “Oh, that’s where we do all are actual testing, just be careful not to break it too much.”

    /Alright, what is it called?/

    “Uhm, I think its called prod or something like that. The root password is written on a sticky note on the upper right corner of John’s monitor.”

    /Who is John, the senior dev or something?/

    “What? Hahaha no, John is just the summer intern.”