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I’ve tried KDE Plasma Mobile on an old Surface Pro and it seemed to work better than Gnome

Literally my first experience after installing dark reader is that it can’t darken its own add-on page! Seems to be good for other pages so I’ll give it a go for now.

I always found that to be quite hit and miss. Works for plenty but often gives a flash of white before it kicks in and makes enough pages unreadable that I’d rather not bother at all! I’ll give it another go and see if it’s improved though.

What setup do you have that actually sets a dark background everywhere? In my experience there are always plenty of programs and web pages that stay white.

For example, Bluesky. They have an open protocol and (I think) you can easily transfer data between instances. If they start fucking people around, you can just jump to another ATProto app.

I’ve never touched bluesky but everyone on Lemmy seems to be constantly saying that there are no other instances

The Last of Us was one of the most disappointing and dull games I’ve every played. Over-hype definitely didn’t help, but it looked brown and dreary, seemed to mainly involve walking around waiting for press X to do thing to appear on screen, and threw plot at me when I actually wanted to play a game.

Where’s the Linux? Is this “Windows Bad” memes?

Saw one earlier today where the “community support” person opened with “please make sure you have applied all Windows updates”. Given that it was a web page issue and I was on my phone I didn’t mark this reply as helpful.

I’ve got a different model but as others have said the linux-surface kernel is key, and their GitHub page has detailed compatibility info and installation instructions. I picked Fedora having never used it before because it was well-supported and I’ve got no complaints.

More critical than distro is desktop environment. A few people were recommending Gnome but they must be a bit out of date now as I didn’t have a great experience; incompatible extensions, missing gestures, and generally a worse feel than Windows! I’ve just installed KDE Plasma Mobile and it’s great, feels more like Android and has way more features.

The linux-surface installation instructions will walk you through this, but I’d just download the Fedora Plasma Mobile spin, put it on a USB drive, boot it to check you like it (though expect that a few things might not work properly until you install the linux-surface kernel), install it (you can dual-boot with Windows if you think you might need it or just replace the whole OS if you’re concerned about space), and then install the kernel.

Happy to try and answer any more questions about installing!

This is such a small thing but it infuriates me every time I have to use Microsoft’s stupid “docs” site. Great QoL feature if it works!

What’s with the image?

Thanks!

errr… what am I looking at here?

Good to see Space Cadet Pinball still there!

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I don’t run any servers and leccy is expensive, they go off when I’m done using them!

No clear line, but to me a script is tying together other programs that you run, those programs themselves are the programs. I guess it’s a matter of how complex the logic is too.

Yep, in my mind piping together other commands is scripting not programming, exactly what shell scripts are for!

Wouldn’t something interpreted like python be a better solution?