I’ve got Ubuntu on my 2015 MacBook that worked out of the box except dedicated/integrated graphics switcher and the webcam. I also installed Windows which Apple puts out official drivers for. It’s just a computer, you can plug in a USB drive and install other operating systems just the same as any other laptop.

It still runs decently, I often forget it’s a 10 year old machine. I boot Ubuntu on it for work though, and boot Windows on it for the occasional game. It’s a useful machine.

Is printing cumbersome and difficult on Linux? Yes, it can be. Is it better than Windows? Also yes.

I was in for computer science major but took lots of other electives. The only course I needed Windows for was Windows App Programming. The rest I was fine with on Linux.

Piper is a GUI wrapper for libratbag which supports a bunch of gaming mice that is great for customizing button mapping. It doesn’t do per-app basis but once you map the mouse buttons to regular keys/commands you could use another application to do the mapping per application.

But who uses that? I recall using a gnome plugin a few years ago that required an Open weather API key that you could use any location for.

Not so much broken as change of focus. Their focus now is money, and it’s hard to turn down hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ubuntu has had all three of those things. Amazon ads in the search bar was awhile back. Not sure but I assume they still hijack installing Firefox using apt and instead install it using snap. And Ubuntu Pro popups are a new thing.

That’s me as well, they did a lot to get newcomers in. It’s just easy to poke fun at them these days.

What would it look like? I’d guess Amazon ads in the search bar, proprietary package managers overriding the old open package manager, and popup ads for distribution Pro?

Wait…

I’m on GNOME, but thanks for the help. Getting me to dig deeper and figure out it’s a known issue with Slack and not Wayland will help me going forward.

Looks like it’s a known bug on Slack’s end that’s known for 1.5 years but now is “actively investigated” as of 8 days ago.

https://forums.slackcommunity.com/s/question/0D53a00009BSEGACA5/when-will-slack-support-wayland-screen-sharing-does-anyone-have-workarounds-or-hacks-to-make-it-work?language=en_US

It’s Slack, so Electron, and the browser version unfortunately doesn’t support Huddle calls, which is what we use for all our calls and where I’d be screen sharing from.

Thanks, I got it running under Wayland with that (xeyes doesn’t show it) but screenshare still isn’t working. That’s okay, I’ll try again next year

Can you give some details about this? I can’t find anything online about it.

I didn’t know I needed the desktop portal for my DE as well, I’ve installed that now. Between that and updating Zoom it works on Zoom now, thanks.

Edit: I just updated Zoom and it’s working now! Zoom doesn’t work at all Slack gives me one window at a time and black screens for Firefox windows. I will try both of these in the browser and see if I get anywhere.

I want to switch to get high refresh rates on my multi monitor setup. I tried recently again but I can’t for the life of me get screen sharing working, which I need for work.

Edit: With some help here and a Slack update released yesterday to fix the problem, it’s working in both Zoom and Slack!