I run teams and Outlook using versions in electron wrappers. For one drive I have to use the web interface to get to the shared storage because our folks don’t know how to set it up and I don’t care enough to figure it out for them.
I have one application that I really need to use that I still can’t get working in Linux but I’m still trying.
I don’t use them, the 96% K4v2 and v3 are what I prefer for the compact but nearly full sized.
The k17 pro is ok but I don’t enjoy the extra size. The smallest keyboards I can use are 60% or 10 keyless since I use function keys and num pads all to often.
If I was a writer and not do doing math/engineering related things I would skip the extra keys.
Home Keychron K4v2: Custom built (franken switch) Kailh Silent Box Browns. Bottom housing, and Springs are from Kailh Box Royals. Top housing, stem, and tactile hammer from the Box Browns.
Work Keycron K4v3: currently have the stock Keychron Banana switch and they are ok. I like the spring weight but im not in love with the rest of the switch. My board also came with 5 bad switches so thats not a great selling point.
Travel Keychron K17 Pro: Gateron LP Blues, fewer options so these are the ones I like to annoy people with on the train or airplane.
I have a bunch of other keyboards with different switches ranging from Outemu silent white, purples, to Cherry brown, and silvers.
I cant even remember all the switches I have, and I have given away so many to friends…
I would get everyone to sign the Paris agreement and give it real teeth for non compliance.
Highly doubtful since it’s AMD to AMD.
Honestly moving to a KDE desktop environment along with any well maintained Linux distro will feel like going back to Windows 7 but now with modern powershell
There will always be a few things different like not needing to download apps from websites. But most of the rest will feel normal.
Nearly everything you are talking about is easy and built into the vast majority of desktop linux distributions, and more than a few server ones too!
RDP: Remmina, KDE (windows like Desktop Environment)
Hyper-V: KVM+QEMU, but im going to ask why? There are very few reasons to do full virtual machines these days when you can just run everything as containers.
Plex: Plex
RAID5: use ZFS Z5 or linux mdadm r5. The advantages of ZFS is that you get lots of tools like snapshots, and reslivering which helps prevent bit rot.
Depending on your hardware I would honestly suggest your host OS be Proxmox, and then just run your gaming/personal system as a VM with GPU pass through. Proxmox has all the KVM+QEMU tools and ZFS tools baked in with a good web UI that makes managing these things easier.
I moved to OnShape since its web based I can use it in linux without issues. FreeCAD is good, but it randomly was slow on my laptop and I cant figure out whats wrong :(
If they have a remote office that is line of site from the top of the building then this would cost orders of magnitude less than running a dedicated line, or leasing/paying for a dedicated network connection between the two locations.
This would let whomever installed it have a direct, private, local network that spans two locations for under $5000.
looks like a point to point wireless networking device.
No, its a normal PTZ Security camera.
Ahh, I got mine used when a window 11 update “bricked” a lots of them. Rather than do am RMA this guy just got a new one and gave me the old ones saying if I could fix it then I could keep it.
Unbricking was not easy so I can understand why he just replaced it.
Yes it has a USB c port for e GPU and as an input to be a 2nd monitor for a laptop.
It’s not really upgradable as it’s a highly integrated package. But I will have to replace the battery at some point and will let you know.
Yes I got a generic surface pen and it worked out of the box without any tweaking.
I have a minis forum v3 that I use all the time. It’s got decent CPU and GPU for a laptop class.
It competent runs Indy and older games, has reasonable battery life, and the general performance is more than enough for productivity.
Touch screen works flawlessly, accelerometer required some tinkering as did volume control. Thumb scanner was easy to get working. I have not gone back to try getting the IR camera for face detection working.
I would live boot or install side by side another more modern distro before dumping the card. It’s a fine card it just requires effort to get working unlike AMD/Intel.
Good to know that your different distribution works well with your different GPU.
Great but it’s not working out of the box and clearly that was the expectation.
AMD has built in support so no extra steps needed.
Ubuntu has a history of not having the latest kernels and having spotty support for new hardware.
Sure you can fix it but again the out of the box expectation.
We can agree that it should work and can work and I don’t disagree that always suggestions a different distribution is not generally helpful but watching people suffer trying to get Ubuntu working is a sore spot for me.
eh, I used to use slackware, then moved to gentoo, and then to manjaro, arch based but low maint = less tweaking time more game time.