So? There’s nothing preventing someone from installing either, and they’re adding Wayland support to Cinnamon.

Switching to Ubuntu is way, way better than staying on Windows.

That being said, Ubuntu is maintained by the Canonical company, and they have made some really sus decisions in the past. Things like putting Amazon ads in the application launcher and then trying to gaslight people when the inevitable backlash arrived.

The meme above refers to Canonical’s own Snap packaging format (think of it like UWP/Microsoft Store apps vs. “regular” Win32 apps), and the way they’re pushing for its adoption. Snap is installed by default on Ubuntu and official Ubuntu flavors. You can uninstall it manually, but Canonical has modified the APT package manager so that when an application is available as a Snap package, it automatically installs the Snap back-end and the application as a Snap package without notifying the user (instead of installing the .deb-packaged applications, which is what happens on all other distributions that use APT). Canonical recently also ordered that official Ubuntu flavors (which are maintained by independent groups) can’t include Flatpak, a universal packaging format that directly competes with Snap, in their default installations.

Tech support scammers HATE this trick!

Wait, hang the fuck on…

the ease in bypassing software that restricts their speed to the legal limit.

As opposed to the insurmountable difficulty of pressing the car’s accelerator pedal a bit harder?

Doesn’t mean they stopped pushing their own shit in places that they have no business touching. I mean:

> apt install firefox
> look inside
> snap

And then there’s Ubuntu Pro. https://feddit.org/comment/2001630

(edit) I just realized that I could’ve expressed the first point using proper English, but my idiot brain immediately chose memes. I think I’m beyond help.

VS’s built-in .NET debugger is top tier, though. Especially the ability to edit code while it is running.

This video explains it all in 19 words. Democracy relies on intelligent, informed choice. Republican voters typically lack one or both.

Time-based one-time passwords. It’s been used for years for multi-factor authentication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password

…except manage the game’s environment, download and install local files and updates, validate those files to make sure they’re not compromised, provide an API for service integration in games, manage middleware like Gamescope or Wine…

It would be like banning all loud and annoying freight trucks inside city limits, and then wondering why food doesn’t show up in stores anymore.

Saying that Vim isn’t feature-rich is like saying that a terminal isn’t feature-rich. The features are right there, you just have to find them.

And website operators will be compelled to adopt this, how? They will likely just use PPA and also all of the tracking tools, or straight up not give a shit about PPA. Mozilla does not have the influence to affect real change. Until such a time, all of this is just worthless posturing.

F-droid exists as an alternative. Manually installing APK files is also an alternative. You can have a full and complete experience without ever touching Google Play or Google services.

This is why nobody likes stallmanites. You can nitpick as much as you want with that attitude and find something non-free somewhere in the ecosystem, but that does not mean that the entire project is now non-free. Again, you are arguing in bad faith against the first guaranteed freedom of free software.

Please explain why you think they’re endorsing it.

You can install and run non-free applications (like games or the nvidia driver) on Linux distributions. Does that make Linux non-free?

I would argue that restricting an OS to run exclusively FOSS code robs the user of the first guarantee of free software: “the freedom to use the program for any purpose”.

nvim

Sweden’s just passed it, and Poland is very close to being the third. (edit) 4 hours later, Poland is third past the threshold.

This. I’ve had issues at work while imaging classroom computers where some would finish in ~30 minutes and a few would need hours. All of the computers used Cat6 cables. This being a classroom, and students being absolute wankbags, they kept yanking the computers and kicking the cables, so the wires came loose from the plugs. I later used ethtool to debug the slow computers – the switch would only allow 10baseT link modes.

On Linux? Update packages and reboot.

On Windows? I think Nvidia is updated by Windows Update, but you’ll have to manually download the online updater tool for AMD cards. There’s really no good method to automate it on Windows other than clicking on the pop-ups, which I find equally hilarious and embarrassing.

Modern, performant computer graphics is an incredibly complex topic full of hacks, workarounds, and edge cases. It’s possible that an update to DirectX/OpenGL/Vulkan caused some edge case interaction between the application and the graphics pipeline to fail somewhere. Updating the GPU driver (mesa, nvidia, amdgpu, or whatever Windows equivalent) could mitigate that failure.

I remember having to update the Nvidia Windows driver when Cyberpunk 2077 was released to fix an issue related to transparent foliage (transparency is always a pain in the ass to deal with).

I use Virtualbox’s shared folders, they appear as network drives in the guest machine. It hasn’t given me any trouble, but like I said, it’s limited to what you can do with a network share on Windows, so no links.