Other Interesting Distros, Part 5

brent

tomscharbach I was talking consumer, yes.

tomscharbach Dell could develop a line of Linux consumer laptops, aggressively market them, and build a consumer support infrastructure for, say, $1-2 million per year. Do you think that Dell would see a reasonable return on investment?

Framed that way, no, but my 'imagining' was on a much bigger scale. Maybe not increase manufacturing just for Linux, but decrease selling consumer units with Windows and increase units (units=laptop or desktop) with a frienly Linux like Mint or Ubu or even this. Competetent marketing could make this work (linux as exciting and new like the love boat). Win might not be happy with the decrease of selling a manufactuer (Dell for instance) Win11 bulk licenses....gonna phone the Dell CEO later after dinner and get this ball rolling in this😉.

tomscharbach

brent gonna phone the Dell CEO later after dinner and get this ball rolling in this

Let me know when you call, because I have two relatives in Texas who are bankruptcy/restructuring lawyers, and who would love to be the next call to Michael, right after yours. 😆

brent

tomscharbach they laughed at John Delorean, too. Umm, nevermind.

edit/ps what could windows do if Dell says "we want to sell less of your product to push our Mint (for ex.) line towards a youunger demographic"? It would have to be proprietary meets open source because Mint would have to come with Dell underneath and the normal Dell bloatware integrated into Mint...might be an improvement on Mint...

murbert

Nice review, very comprehensive.

tomscharbach just as Windows 11 now requires users to sign into Windows 11 using a Microsoft Account.

There is a way around that

Staudey

murbert For a friend of mine none of the tricks worked anymore, but there was one remaining one: Trying to use no@thankyou.com as an email address. Apparently that one (among others) is blacklisted and it will allow you to instead create a local account afterwards.

tomscharbach

brent You might want to move this discussion over to the "2023: Year of the Linux Desktop (Redux)" thread or start a new thread. We are getting seriously off topic.

brent

tomscharbach as I'm apt---no más de esto. lo siento.

murbert

Staudey This worked for me 2 days ago
Solution 3: Disable internet requirements

In the "Let's connect you to a network" page, use these steps:

Use the Shift + F10 keyboard shortcut to open Command Prompt.
Type the following command: oobe\bypassnro and press enter. Computer will reboot and you get the I don't have internet option.

minrvovrfc

brent Nothing more frustrating than Sisyphus on Redcore. Cannot acquire a three-month-old ISO based on Gentoo. Lesson learned. :/
I mean, Synaptic is far better than that, and preferrable to Discover or GNOME Software for me. It's not cool, yeah I know but it works for me. In case I cannot use the command line.

minrvovrfc

WetGeek Interesting distro and I like the "neofetch" picture! But I was unable to get Wifi on XFCE version. I only needed "libfuse2" library or something like that to run AppImages. Booted into a different distro with Wifi access to "chroot" so I could use "cards" program but it refused to budge, so I had to give up. I like the installer which is no nonsense. Have to change a few text files afterward so it boots properly and doesn't recognize partition UUID's.

WetGeek

minrvovrfc But I was unable to get Wifi on XFCE version.

I wish I could debug that here and help you get to the root cause, but I explore these distros on VMs. Although the host machine (my laptop) happens to use wi-fi, by the time that connection is bridged for the VM, it shows up there as a wired connection.

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