Some games/software expected/relied on a certain CPU speed to run correctly. If your computer was faster than that, the software would run too fast. The turbo button let you toggle between the maximum speed your computer could go, and the speed that the software needed/expected in order to run normally.

Basically, there was an actual reason for the turbo button, it wasn’t just marketing on computers.

x380 for the 2 in 1 gimmick!

You may be looking for a “dock” instead of a “panel”.

Plank is a popular/common one, I do not have any recommendations for you though

I agree that it’s not the year of the linux desktop, and that people who think it is are very naive, but you don’t need to tell anyone to use the terminal for anything for many distros.

I didn’t see where the author brought up gender in this article.

Posts from Mastodon remove all mentions from the title.

If you read the body of the post, you can see it says '@Firefox`

Is this a Lemmy problem, or a problem because you are using an app?

Make a USB that you can “live boot” from, so you can test out how they work with your hardware. Generally speaking, Mint works better with AMD, and Pop! works better with Nvidea. Once you have one you like, you can use the installer on USB to set things up.

Here’s the official basic guide for Mint:
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

And here’s the official basic guide for Pop!:
https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/

Even for an AI image, that’s pretty low quality. The bricks don’t line up.

I have never used that emulator, but I know that sometimes the installation method of things like emulators can cause issues.
Have you tried both a direct install, and the Flathub version?

Yeah, it sounds like the desktop version of an Iphone.

I was just quoting OP. I am making no claims of my own.

From your post:

laptop he uses for university. He’s not a tinkerer and wants something that just works.

Mint:

Linux Mint is known for being very user-friendly and stable. Also easy to get help online.

Fedora:

have to install media codecs via terminal

university wifi eduroam doesn’t work on Fedora

less help on the web for Fedora than Mint.

Unless you’re sure that screen stuttering is going to be a major annoyance, you know what I am going to suggest.

Not sure why this is was down-voted.
I don’t agree with some points on the list, but if you need propriety software for your job, Linux may not be the easiest choice.