To compare…

We’re running brand new Dell laptops with Windows 11 and most are failing.

Some are hardware issues (laptop won’t charge!) Some are software (BSOD, random issues, etc)

So, TBH, I’d like to buy back all our old laptops, replace Windows with Linux and do away with all the corp. spyware and I bet my team’s productivity doubles.

Just think of all those Azure and AWS VMs needing age verification as they’re spooled up, destroyed and receated every few minutes…

@MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip definitely do Step1 from here.

Make sure it’s memtest+ and not the others.

It might fail quickly, it might take all night, but this will find bad RAM.

If it passes, move on to the next steps… I’d also add: check PSU

Correct.

That conversation has finished, the dust has settled and syncthing-fork is fine.

Yep, agreed… it’s an amazing tool - esp. as it’s (almost?) like Photoshop and other expensive tools.

I just can’t suggest it to my friends without being afraid / avoiding / making excuses for an acronym… they’ll have to find it themselves and they won’t want to admit it either…

I’m sure this would get more mainstream acceptance if they changed the name.

Definitely look for a 2nd hand one, you’ll have less issues.

Don’t go toooo old as some had wifi issues back in the day (no / partial drivers)

There’s a lot of refurbs by major brands (ie Dell) that are ex-corp lease models with some kind of warranty (which won’t cover the battery) because of the Win10 purge.

I think the GPU is the main issue if you’re wanting to play games… and as others have said, gimmicks like touchscreens and fingerprint readers can be hit & miss.

I’ve installed Mint on Lenovo, Dell and HP laptops with no major issues.

Yep, you’re right!

https://github.com/torunar/flying-toasters-xscreensaver

The flying toasters in the After Dark screensavers

You obviously do not work on customer systems 🙂

You need to be able to rebuild the bootsector of a hardrive from memory with a keyboard in the wrong language using only notepad and cmd 😁

Upgrade it to Ubuntu 25.10 ?

Arch.

Minimal, rock solid, good documentation.

If you feel the need for containers, that could be installed too.

Whatever you use… understand it and do backups. Something will break.

Yep, that’s the one… ie not the one I was using.

'K thanks… looks lile I need to swap.

Hmmm.

I’ve just noticed that FDroid FreeOTP (no “+”) is newer (updated 3 weeks ago) than FreeOTP+ (updated 2 years ago)… which I thought it was a fork of…

Ok, thanks, I might have to reassess…

@solrize@lemmy.ml - I presume you’re using the non-plus version??

+1 for FreeOTP+ - been using it for a while and it does everything I need.

I do agree - years ago he was doing some good case reviews and I’d pick his videos to compare against others, but I do agree with other comments here that he’s getting click-baity and I tend to skip his vids now

It’s not much better in German

I’m kinda with you, with a slight change: raspberrys that can’t run Arch Linux on Arm run Raspberry Pi OS, so, almost Debian.

Everything else: Arch.

(Oh… and pfSense on FreeBSD… but let’s not muddy the water)

Radicale just implements CalDAV and CardDAV so use any clients you want.

I’m mostly using the Fossify from F-Droid - their calendar, contacts, all work with DAVx5 syncing to radicale and it works fine… no 3rd party tracking my dentist appointments.

I also have TrackerControl running on my phone, so I know that there’s no tracking.

True… could be both… or perhaps copyparty.

I was thinking more along the colab side, where syncthing is working on your laptop and mine to sync our files, rather than central storage, but fair point.