This will immediately get struck down in court even if it passes, though everyone should make their voices heard in saying this is complete nonsense.

Yet another case of antiquated politicians not understanding technology whatsoever.

Well, like I said, there are plenty of guides out there detailing how to make your own image, like this one

As far as your HW acceleration, I’d check to make sure which driver is actually loaded, and if it’s properly showing it loaded.

They have images to flash to it. Just flash whatever they have, or build your own. Plenty of docs and guides out there, but that version of Ubuntu is way too old to make it very useful: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/learn/get-started-jetson-nano-devkit

Push button just like anything else. Same issues exist on Fedora that exist elsewhere, which is really an Nvidia problem, and has nothing to do with the distro.

There are a couple distros that install Nvidia drivers as part of their package selection, but they also have the same issues, because, Nvidia.

Every Linux distro will work with your hardware, aside from edge case components in certain situations. There is no difference in distros for hardware compatibility, unless you’re thinking of running a very old versions of something. Anything will work.

There is also no major difference between distros for gaming performance. The only difference in “gaming” distros is that they have certain software preselected and installed. You can just do this yourself anyway.

I currently suggest Fedora for beginners because it’s dead simple. The big difference between any distro is going to be the default Desktop Environment, and you can choose whatever you want after you install anyway.

If you like Windows’ UI, give KDE a shot. If you want something more like MacOS, go for Gnome. Either work great.

If you want to try multiple, download some LiveUSB images, start em up and poke around a bit. If you change your mind after install, you can just install a different DE and switch over without needing to reinstall the entire OS.

This isn’t a distro thing, it’s generally the Desktop Environment, though with the Surface devices, there is a custom kernel lots of people use that has some extra drivers for the rest of the hardware, so look for that. You can use it with any distro.

As far as the DE, Gnome has better general touch support over others right now, so it’s probably going to give you the experience you’re expecting. Every art app I’ve tried with a pen has great pressure support.

You don’t need to “Install” them like in Windows. Everything in Linux is just a call to launch something, and for Python is just python someprogram.py.

If you’re regularly going to be calling this program, you can put it anywhere makes sense for you, but generally somewhere in your PATH, and then you can make an alias for your preferred terminal to launch it easily.

If that’s super confusing, give this a try (cross platform): https://github.com/InkAurora/PythonAliasManager

You didn’t mention what Desktop Environment you’re using.

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Great point.

You can, but you need to basically completely turn that laptop into a router. A cheap WiFi bridge would be more flexible.

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Give this a shot: https://github.com/dimtpap/coppwr

I’m not aware of anything that ties display and audio output together in the way you’re expecting, but you could make a Pipewire config to tie some things together and probably make it work. If your TV is using DP or HDMI for audio output, then this is already handled for you in some small part because it helps to define which display will be in use.

“It’s really great, and I hate it” is kind of an insane take, but if you’re looking for things to tune, tweak, or squeeze extra performance out of, try compiling your own optimized kernel and drivers. Maybe get into building a more portable profile for yourself so your changes can move with you elsewhere.

They probably paid for some long ago, and don’t want to pay again for updated versions of everything. They could probably even get away running stuff on Wine 🤣

It’s literally in every display you see in the world. OEMs stopped fucking with Windows years ago.

Go to any fast food restaurants with those vertical displays? Linux.

Check-in kiosks that have been deployed in the past 5 years? Linux.

Your router, most platforms you interact with online, media devices, cars (they should be using RTOS, but many use Debian), movie theaters, POS systems…

Linux is the most deployed OS on this planet by far. I’m kind of annoyed when people don’t realize this.

I actually hate when engineers are just letting a desktop sit like this. It’s sloppy and unnecessary.

Vibe coded? You know how this works?

Good luck with that. I look forward to your future posts about it.

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Red Hat is the largest funder of the Fedora Projects because it serves as a base for other things they make and support aside from their enterprise distros. Being the largest single funder gets you the most pull on the direction of said projects. They also have Red Hat employees directly running or contributing to various projects and upstream commits.

The actual community boards and such are independent of Red Hat otherwise. Similar to how Valve suddenly has a bunch of pull in the direction of the projects they’ve been directly funding and contributing to the past few years, Red Hat informs the independent community board with commits and contributions.

This is how the FOSS community works in general though. ‘Project A’ could be widely used in the community, but generally have fairly slow development. ‘Company A’ comes in and offers to fund feature development or big hunts, or maybe directly contribute fixes because they rely on this project. That project then either has the choice to turn down that extra help that could greatly benefit the project, or take that help, and as part of that deal, accept that ‘Company A’ now has some pull in the direction of the project.

Kind of a majority rule via resource commitment.

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