Can’t you change to a normal user with become? We do lots of stuff with Ansible as normal user. You should be able to create tasks that get executed as normal user and install yay and run makepkg, and then run yay to install packages.

It won’t mess with anything, but it does require to be set up on every pc you want to use it.

Exactly, most, if not all, os’s do this.

Ram usage is really nothing to worry about depending on the amount you have. Windows will free ram where needed as long as there is enough. If ram is not being used by applications it will be used for other things (it will be cached I believe?). If almost no ram is being used it means some things might take longer to load.

Windows on my Surface Go 2 used about 3-4GB of ram when idle, while on my work laptop with 64GB ram it uses about 10-12GB. But if necessary applications can use some of that ram that’s normally being used in idle.

I do agree about Linux distros being faster, that’s my experience as well.

I seem to remember that Carbon also doesn’t need Origin, or am I wrong? I also think that it was awesome.

So basically they had enough examples to learn from, but completely ignored it and do the same?

I barely have to use the commandline, that’s more for power users. And that’s on Arch (after configuring everything the way I want). On distros like Mint it’s not even necessary after a fresh install. I used to help people with their pc, and to my surprise I came across Linux Mint multiple times, at older people no less.

That’s because it is a perfectly viable consumer os. At least the distros are, Linux is just the kernel. What makes a distro an industrial os? I wouldn’t use Arch for industrial purposes. So no, I won’t accept that I use an industrial os, because it isn’t.

Debian does use systemd, but what’s so bad about it? I’m just curious, I’m using Arch with KDE, and that also uses systemd. Never had any issues with it. Debian doesn’t use snap by default though.

It’s a great distro to learn a lot about Linux. I challenged myself to install it on my Surface Go 2, and make it usable as a tablet, as well as make it boot with secure boot and more. Now it’s happily running Arch with KDE, using the linux-surface kernel signed with my own secure boot key and a pacman hook that signs that kernel after every update. I learned all of this acompanied by a lot of fuckups and reinstalls, until I was able to fix things after breaking them instead of starting from scratch.

That’s not an answer to the question. Anyway, does Hyprland support touch? I’ve briefly tried it, but out of the box it’s really unusable on a tablet. I’m looking for a tiling window manager that does support touch, including an on screen keyboard. For now I use KDE which supports touchscreens very well.

I’m the same, I love using the cli for many things, but it’s just no go on my Surface Go 2 if I want to use it as a tablet. I’m using KDE Plasma on Arch Linux, and it’s pretty awesome in terms of touchscreen support. I also tried Gnome, but it has a nasty backspace issue in the on screen keyboard. When you use backspace it’s like you press the left arrow key and then backspace, leaving half of the characters. Otherwise it’s great.

It takes some time to get everything working right though. I didn’t know how to get the on screen keyboard to work (Maliit), which is pretty important if you plan to use it on a tablet.

Another important thing is to use Wayland, as that greatly improves touchscreen support over Xorg.

So personally I’d suggest KDE, but Gnome is also really good if you don’t mind the backspace issue. Or am I missing something that would fix that?

So I managed to solve it. After searching around, many posts pointed to removing the xdg-desktop-portal-gnome package, which would help for other issues as well. This didn’t work for me though.

It turned out I had to remove the ~/.local/share/flatpak/db/documents file. After that I could copy files again. Now on to the next issue where the linux-surface kernel doesn’t get signed with my own MOK after the kernel gets updated.

Laser printers don’t burn the paper. They require toners. So it wasn’t a joke unless they also didn’t know how a laser printer works.

They get paid twice anyway, if you buy cartridges from HP. This is just a subscription for those cartridges.

I hope they’ll ever fix the backspace issue for the on screen keyboard.

I think you have to use grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg to generate the boot entries in grub. I just installed Arch on my Surface Go 2 following the wiki, and I also missed that at first. You can do that by using arch-chroot after mounting the root and boot partition following the wiki.

Isn’t that because Opera is Chromium based?