Or do you keep a few Windows/Mac PCs lying around?

You know, just in case you need to run an app/game that only works perfectly on Windows/Mac and WINE/Proton wouldn’t run it?

Been thinking of Linuxifying my Laptop eversince I enjoyed Linux after defecting to it (from Windows) in my main PC (a Desktop).

  • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    Yeah, they’re just computers. They have the capability to do anything a desktop can do, so long as other considerations such as thickness, battery life, temperature, etc. don’t constrain them.

    In fact, Linux is perfectly happy running off of any storage medium you want, so you can have a USB hub and on each port, a multi-form-factor SD card reader, and in each one of those a microSD as well as a full-sized SD card with different Linux installs on all of them, and it will happily boot off of any of those. If you then run the bootloader config generator on them, they will all detect each other and you could boot off of any one of them and then it will give you an option to switch to a different one. Linux is very versatile.

    • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]@lemmygrad.mlOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s just, I always imagined Laptops to not have enough physical space to be able to hold more than one internal storage devices.

      Though, yeah, I guess they are computers… except you can’t just build a Laptop with the parts you want. You have to either buy an already-built laptop with the parts you want; or get someone/a company to build and sell it to you (so literally just the first option in the end).

      Also, unlike a Desktop, in a Laptop there are limited amounts of parts that you can swap. And I feel like swapping parts in a Laptop could get risky. Then again I only worked with Desktops, not Laptops, so what do I know.

      • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        I always imagined Laptops to not have enough physical space to be able to hold more than one internal storage devices.

        M.2 drives are tiny. You can easily fit 8 in the space of a full-sized SATA SSD if you stack them. Most new laptops use M.2 drives. Also, many modern laptops use eMMC, which is about the size of an SD card, so you can have a lot of those.

        except you can’t just build a Laptop with the parts you want. You have to either buy an already-built laptop with the parts you want; or get someone/a company to build and sell it to you (so literally just the first option in the end).

        Yes, but there’s no actual reason for this to be true. It’s just always been like that. Laptops can be modular at the expense of a few millimeters of thickness and extra weight, but I’d say it’s worth it. Framework laptop demonstrates this pretty well.

        And I feel like swapping parts in a Laptop could get risky

        No more risky than in a desktop. They are literally the same parts, just smaller.

      • fruityloop@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        except you can’t just build a Laptop with the parts you want.

        idk if you’ve heard of it before but this is a good option: https://frame.work/de/en

        it’s not as good as a desktop in terms of control over parts but it’s much better then the average modern laptop and you can run linux on it.

        • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]@lemmygrad.mlOP
          2·
          2 years ago

          I’ve heard of Framework before.

          But god why are they so fucking expensive… One of the points of PC Building is to gradually upgrade your system with better parts… might as well just buy a prebuilt laptop if they’re gonna charge a lot for a laptop that you’ll need to build by yourself in the end.