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1. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2017 05:15:45 EDT Sean Tilley
   I've dressed up my #PureOS installation. It's been a while since I've had a Linux-based environment dedicated to daily computing, but overall I'm excited about it.
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   I think I'm going to stick with #Gnome for a little while. I love #KDE, but the toolkit clash between different applications really hinders the experience. It's easier to make Qt just mimic GTK+ on a Gnome desktop.
   
   This distribution ships with Gnome 3.22, running on top of Wayland. What's surprising is that most of the Wayland experience is completely invisible to the end user. It could run ever so slightly smootherFor an open source video driver, it doesn't run too poorly. A very basic demo of glxgears runs at 75 FPS - though not a definitive benchmark, it generally feels good.
   
   Media and important files have all been transferred over, a development environment has been configured, tools have been set up, and a few choice themes / extensions have been assembled.
   1. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2017 21:41:54 EDT Sean Tilley

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      I haven't heard of PureOS, but the search led me to https://puri.sm/. Looks pretty cool. Does anyone have experience with these laptops?
      
      Products – Purism
      
      
      
      

      The Librem are the first high-end laptops where you are in control and have complete visibility into the operating system, all bundled software, and the deeper levels of your computer. Typical laptops use hardware chips coupled with software that can betray you (including tracking you without your consent). News stories have shown how these chips c...

   2. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2017 22:00:09 EDT Sean Tilley

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      Say goodbye to proprietary BIOSes, say hello to coreboot.