Quoting: ArehandoroIntegration with Microsoft 365 products, from Teams to Outlook

Yes, I know from experience that corporate IT departments care a lot about this and that their attitude is that this somehow necessitates either mac or windows, but it's yet another really stupid consideration on their part. For one, you can use MS office on the browser these days, which is more than sufficient for email (this is how I access my work email). Same goes for teams, which I believe has a native linux version anyway.

Beyond that, I'll resist going on a rant about how ridiculous MS office is and the violence I'd like to perpetrate on anyone who tries to give me an excel spreadsheet, but suffice it to say, if you absolutely *MUST* use MS office crap, you're probably going to have a hard time convincing me why libreoffice is not adequate for that task. Indeed, whenever I do have the misfortune of being forced to look at an excel spreadsheet, I just use libreoffice, in which the first thing I do is export it to a non-ridiculous format. Furthermore, just about every programming language these days has some package for reading excel files into some dataframe format... and if the amount of effort collectively represented by those packages doesn't give some indication of the amount of human suffering caused by excel, I don't know what does.

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Video game titles usually suck, so "Beyond All Reason" is pretty great.

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This is very surprising to me, even though of course I personally really can't understand why anyone would choose mac over linux these days. It also seems pretty ridiculous that corporate IT departments which are probably constantly being asked not to waste money waste tons of money on macs which are both much more expensive and a lot harder to maintain (at least for the IT department itself, I'm sure apple makes all sorts of promises to counteract this).

Where I work I'm seemingly the only one who uses linux, and frankly if they told me I couldn't anymore I'd probably immediately quit. Life is too short to spend 8 hours a day dealing with apple's shit.

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Oops, I take it back, after rebooting, seems to work fine. Just can't address the GPU for some reason.

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I really don't care about RGB but I just built (just as in yesterday) a new machine that has a few RGB (RAM, CPU cooler pump and fans, GPU cooler).

Sadly OpenRGB can't detect anything

 
<h2>WARNING:</h2><p>One or more I2C/SMBus interfaces failed to initialize.</p><p>RGB DRAM modules and some motherboards' onboard RGB lighting will not be available without I2C/SMBus.</p><p>On Linux, this is usually because the i2c-dev module is not loaded.  You must load the i2c-dev module along with the correct i2c driver for your motherboard.  This is usually i2c-piix4 for AMD systems and i2c-i801 for Intel systems.</p><p>See <a href='https://help.openrgb.org/'>help.openrgb.org</a> for additional troubleshooting steps if you keep seeing this message.<br></p>

I installed what looks like the main Manjaro package for `i2c` but same result.

Might go back and mess with it at some point but doesn't look like there's much documentation.

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Yes, please! The steam controller was great. The only real problem with it was that everyone kept comparing it to a keyboard and mouse: no, the trackpads are never going to be as good as a mouse, but they don't *need* to be, they just need to be better than dual thumbsticks.

Another issue was that the trackpad behavior was so customizable that it took significant effort to get them optimally tuned for every situation, but, again, this wasn't a problem with the hardware design.

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After looking at the benchmarks I think there's a really good chance I'll buy AMD this time around, my *first time* for a video card.

It's looking like for most games without raytracing the performance will only be 10% or so worse than the RTX 4090, which looks quite impressive considering they unquestionably have less raw computing power.

It's really the open source drivers that make the decision for me, nvidia's going to have to do a lot more than 10% better to make it worth dealing with their bullshit.

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Quoting: Vardamir

Quoting: ExpandingManJust booted into 6.1 (actually it's an RC because the repos don't have latest yet) with no problems.

I tend to forget how incredibly easy Manjaro makes it to switch kernels.

I just did the same on my Manjaro install on the Steam Deck, after Manjaro complained about the 5.19 kernel. I installed the 6.1, rebooted, and X would not start
I had to connect to the machine with ssh, because the console screen is the steam deck monitor flipped on the side and very tiny :-)
After uninstalling the linux61 package and running mkinitcpio -P it worked again

Can't you just use grub to boot back into the old kernel? I assume steamdeck uses grub?

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Just booted into 6.1 (actually it's an RC because the repos don't have latest yet) with no problems.

I tend to forget how incredibly easy Manjaro makes it to switch kernels.

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I've had problems in the past, but it's been a while. Perhaps I was being unnecessarily cautious, I'll experiment with 6.1.

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