https://consentomatic.au.dk/

Wayland released in 2008, so it makes sense for them to stop putting any effort soon after.

Thanks for pointing that out! It has since been fixed.

Silverblue + distrobox is enough for me.

Aight. Hope to meet you next time your hand and fingers start tingling and itching 😜.

I super appreciate all of the tips!

It has been my pleasure 😊!

I thought I was good installing Bazzite with a fresh install using an ISO, made sure to pick the NVIDIA option… it just failed to load the drivers, and showed a gray screen switching to open drivers.

Very strange. Consider reporting this as a bug on their Github or ask assistance on their discord server.

I played with NixOS in a VM. I have sooooo much to learn… so I think I will just install the package manager, and gorge on the cake I get to keep.

NixOS, while excellent at what it offers, is indeed very different from almost anything else. I wish you the best of luck if you wish to conquer it, but I've personally put it on my backlog; I hope to return to it eventually, but not now. Perhaps consider using Fleek, which would be Nix-made-easy. Obviously, it isn't as powerful, but perhaps a new user doesn't need that much power in the first place 😉.

Thank you for responding!

I need a distro which is package-agnostic since i use a lot of old ooen source academic software and they alternate between being only supported on RHEL or Ubuntu

Perhaps you should look into container solutions like e.g. Distrobox. You can basically install/run any package; just ensure usage of the correct container environment.

Fedora 39 is great except when i need to build the above mentioned software from source and i spend 2 hrs failing to match the dependencies from Ubuntu

If you're otherwise content with Fedora, then perhaps consider installing the aforementioned Distrobox; which happens to be found within Fedora's repos and thus one sudo dnf install distrobox away from being installed on your machine.

Also want to improvey laptop’s battery life, but i think i can’t get it much better than in Fedora

I'd argue that Fedora is not best for battery life, though. Minimalist distros tend to be a lot better at this. Installing auto-cpufreq in Fedora Silverblue on my AMD-powered laptop did come with significant improvements, so perhaps you could prolong your battery life by utilizing it or similar programs; think of TLP, thermald etc to name a few.

No the NV41MZ for example has no numpad.

That's unfortunate.

but it was the only clevo on like all Europes Ebay. Literally shipped it in from Great Britain

Honestly, I haven't done a lot of business on Ebay. So, I don't know a lot on how much cheaper you might get devices from there. Though, I wonder if it's a lot cheaper than say this device.

spare parts

It seems NovaCustoms offer some spareparts. I wonder if the ones not explicitly stating NV4xMZ can be used on your device as well.

Read the part after P.S 😅.

Thanks for clarifying!

they wouldn’t be above breaking the law in compiling spyware or other malware into their closed source product for profit.

I might misremember this, but wasn't it only something like a key (or something similar) that they held to themselves? And if so, is it even sensible that spyware can be put in their 'key'?

but when it comes to linux hardware vendors like those, for me at least, it’s hard to know which ones are good and which ones are bad or unknowns.

You hit the nail on the head with that remark. Because, quite frankly, it's hard for all of us; I would love to read reviews done by Notebookcheck (or similarly high-profile reviewers), unfortunately that's simply not the case. In this case, you would have to scrape whatever knowledge you can find about these specific devices (and their vendors) before judging for yourself if it's worth taking the risk.

The reason, why I'm personally fond of NovaCustom and Star Labs, is because they're known to contribute back significantly to the open-source community; same applies to System76, Purism and Tuxedo. I didn't name any these in my previous post, because none of them seemed to be sufficiently affordable.

i did look into the lower grade star labs and there was something about the processors they used… i did a little reading and they got poor marks for being uber slow or something. i could have misinterpreted things though.

If it's about the processor being slow, then I'm not surprised. It's from Intel's N-series, which is somewhat of a spiritual successor to Intel's Celeron and Pentium lines. Both of which are known to be not powerful. And for that price you shouldn't expect a lot more, but I agree that an i3 (or something else with similar processing power) should have been possible at that price-range.

The master branch is updated to the 1.59.124

Brain fart on my side, thanks for correcting me so respectfully 😊!

Hmm.., maintaining it myself is an interesting thought. Perhaps I should take a look at that, thanks a lot for your input. Much appreciated!