Quoting: Luke_NukemIf lsusb shows `0b05:1866 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. N-KEY Device` then you can use rog-core.

No such luck for me, but thanks anyway for all your work.

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Quoting: DevastatoriusGood news.
Hard to find good gaming laptop with good linux support.

System76 have a good gaming laptop with (native) Linux support... But it's expensive, especially if you don't live in America.

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Any idea if the changes in these projects are being pushed upstream (i.e. to the Linux Kernel Team), or if they intend to do so in the future?

I have an ASUS ZenBook Duo UX481FL dual-display/screen laptop, which shares some of the "unique" functionality of the 'ROG' range, and it would be nice to see these changes trickle down to me eventually... Right now, certain things either don't work, or require me to build custom kernels from source (in saying that, approximately 90-95% of the stuff "just works").

And I'm lazy, so the things that don't work or don't work properly just sit there doing nothing...

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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see what the problem is with the first link and although I only skimmed the rest of the links, the general argument seems to be a disagreement with the direction and / or priorities of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation... That's not really doing anything sinister, disturbing or immoral.

What direction should the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation be moving in, and what should their priorities be?

Well if I asked that here, I'd probably get a dozen or more different answers... Each answer would be based exclusively on what that individual Community Member thinks is the right direction to move in or are priorities in the world.

What I think is important is almost certainly going to be different to what you think is important.

This is hardly proof that the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is actually doing something wrong or malicious - just evidence that you and / or the author of those articles don't share the same vision as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyJust like John Cena the person, Bill Gates the person is one of the best things in this world...

Really? How so? Because if it's about all the charity, IMO if you look a bit under the surface of that charity it, too, is somewhat disturbing.

In what way? Both John Cena devotes much of his spare time to charity (especially for the Starlight Foundation), and Bill Gates has given away a significant portion of his wealth in the name of charity... I've not heard anything to suggest this is not the case, with either of them.

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Quoting: jarhead_hHonestly, I think that a good number of people are starting to think that Bill Gates really is evil afterall,

Mostly tinfoil heads, lately.

Just like John Cena the person, Bill Gates the person is one of the best things in this world... His company, not so much.

And it's not a case of "tinfoil hats" - Microsoft makes no secret about just how much of your personal information it tracks intimately within its software, almost all of which cannot be deactivated unless you have a "volume" license.

I don't know what other people have against Microsoft, but for me, it's their insistence that its users should have absolutely no privacy whatsoever, unless they purchase a "volume" license... That's simply unforgivable.

After nearly ten years of being Microsoft free, I don't miss it one bit...

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Well my tablet single-boots Ubuntu, my new laptop single-boots Ubuntu; and the wife is using my old laptop, which is single-booting Ubuntu again... Between the two laptops and the tablet, that's three devices - it all adds up.

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Quoting: Leeo97oneYou need to install this in order to see the launch option on GNOME Shell: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/switcheroo-control

AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/switcheroo-control/

It seems to be included with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ("Focal Fossa"), because I discovered this by accident earlier tonight (I didn't even know there was options to force usage of the dedicated graphics under a right-click menu!)... Of course, my new laptop is rubbish for gaming, despite the NVIDIA chip, so it's of little use to me. :-(

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Quoting: yahyaHey hey!
How about this control center GUI app for TUXEDO laptops:

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That's a nice piece of kit... I personally don't have a need for it, but I'm sure there are plenty of others that do, and it seems to be pretty polished.

It's surprising, because I didn't realize TUXEDO "does the System76 thing" and offer custom software on their laptops... I thought they just offered generic laptops that are compatible with Linux-based operating systems (like ZAReason and loads of other companies do).

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Quoting: tuubiBrowsing by category in mintinstall seems to list apt packages only, and flatpaks are under their own special category. Searching for packages does list both. All in all, seems like a fairly passive way to "push" flatpaks, and not really comparable to what Canonical/Ubuntu is doing with snaps, IMHO. It's nice that they're there as an option though.

That's more or less how Ubuntu does it... The only real difference is that the Ubuntu Development Team have chosen to replace certain software with the "Snap" version rather than the "Debian" version (where as with Linux Mint, you actually need to choose to replace some of the default programs with the "Flatpak" version).

But even then, I'd hardly call that "Canonical forcing Snap down your throat"...

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Quoting: tuubiHey, wait a minute. What do you mean? Sure, they added support for flatpaks in their software center (mintinstall) alongside the normal deb packages, but beyond that I haven't noticed them recommending, much less pushing them. No flatpaks installed by default, no deb packages removed in favour of flatpaks or anything like that. Am I missing something?

They did choose to support flatpak instead of snap, if that's what you mean.

Just "clean" installing all my computers with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS now, so I don't have a screenshot to show you...

But like Ubuntu's "snap" Software Center, Linux Mint's equivalent had both the "regular" package and the "Flatpak" package of many software titles - in most cases, the latter was the current version of <software title> and the "regular" package was an older version (e.g. <software title> as a Debian package would be version 1.x, and the Flatpak package of the same software title would be 2.x).

For various reasons - one of which is that Snaps and Flatpak seem to get updated / upgraded quicker than Debian packages - I prefer to use Snaps and Flatpak... So I replace most of the software on my computer with the Snap / Flatpak version, in addition to installing new software as Snaps / Flatpaks, where ever possible.

I'm sure this was not the case for all Flatpaks under Linux Mint - but I use a fair bit of software, and this was my experience for most of those programs...

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