First distro was Ubuntu 8.04. Switched around to windows, and back, Mac OS and back, and distro hopped in between. But for the last 8 years I’ve been back on Ubuntu. Currently 22.04 on my server and 24.04 on my laptop and desktop. I usually run one LTS behind on the server, and wait for latest point release on my personal machines.
Ive kind of stopped caring about the ideology a little bit. And Ubuntu just works for me.
Ngl. I found that kinda funny. Haha
Yeah. Brody and Lunduke both have some very strange positions I don’t agree with. They also just kinda give the ick, as the cool kids would put it.
Lunduke got posted yesterday as well.
They say that. But the proof really isn’t in the pudding for me. We regularly rely on both BSD and GPL based solutions and projects, and will suggest patches to upstream projects in specific cases. We sometimes don’t do this if it’s BSD, because our derivative works can be made to be more specific to us, and honestly it takes time out of internal projects to do so.
One license we absolutely don’t touch is BUSL.
I’m convinced it’s a troll bot at this point lol
I’d say it’s probably easy to investigate avenues they’d have to enforce it. Like how would they make Canonical, a British company, enforce age verification on Ubuntu, a product they give to users for free?
There’s no contract, no transaction, no legal entity need be involved in the process.
Let’s say workstation.
I’ve always had dgpu issues on Linux. Every single one. Red. Green. Don’t matter. You’ve just made me realise that since I installed my 6600xt about a year ago, I’ve not had to touch or think about it since.
I love MATE. I left Ubuntu when Unity happened. It just never felt polished to me. I used MATE on and off since gnome 3 and unity. Currently off because I’m finally getting used to Gnome 3. And credit where credit is due, G3 is quite nice these days.
Bill gates couldn’t give a shit lol. He’s basically divested away from Microsoft in every meaningful way. He’s no more related than blackrock is at this point.
I’d also love to see activity tracking too.
Has some one mentioned Debian yet? They should mention Debian.
My mother-in-law has been using mint for close to ten years.
While an old macbook air won’t be serviceable, they are cheap, super portable, and you can replace the battery.
Sunk cost though. You spent the time learning Windows. At least Linux is far more likely to be an enduring skill that won’t try to monetise your time investment by trying to balance enshittifying your experience the perfect amount just enough that you don’t jump ship.
Yeah the starlite sprang to mind for me. Its now packing the n350 though.
My MIL is a grand mother and uses Linux Mint. She’s about as illiterate as you can get.
My Ubuntu LTS installs have been rock solid.
Ansible is idempotent with a lot of intent. NixOS is idempotent.
I dont like the drivers license equivalence. Its physical, so not so easy to check. Driving car is a danger to others so it’s in society’s interest to have driver identifiers.
Handing over machine readible widespread technological identifiers to even participate in life is dystopian.