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It’s an expression. In this context Elon is the broken clock and saying desktops should run Linux is one of the rare times he’s been right about something.

I just realized I have never said this word out loud, but in my mind it sounds like “shown”

That’s exactly what Canonical is trying to do. They are trying to create a system with all the batteries included so people don’t need to worry about installing extra stuff, which means that of course they’ll have a bunch of bloat if you don’t use everything they offer, which is probably the case.

Their end goal is to be able to push this to the masses and maybe one day be able to get compensation for their effort.

I wouldn’t mind if Ubuntu becomes a Microsoft Windows-like product. If that’s what it takes to steal people from the claws of Microsoft, I’m OK with that. That would mean that hardware manufacturers will start developing specialized drivers for their hardware in Linux. To this day, in freaking 2024, I need to have a Windows image in order to configure my headset and mouse because developing the interfaces for Linux is pointless for these companies.

We still have like 50 other distros we can use. Let Ubuntu be that bridge to bring more users to Linux.

I honestly just want to enjoy Linux. If I’m concerned about what happens in every update, I won’t enjoy it.

So I leave the worrying to other people. If something really bad happens that I need to know about, I’ll probably hear about it on these communities.

“Ubuntu did this crazy thing!!!”

Google -> how to disable this crazy thing?

disables the crazy thing

So far I haven’t been hacked (almost 7 years using it) or murdered by the phantom of the bloat. Everything works fine. The only issues I’ve had are Nvidia related. Fuck Nvidia.

Ubuntu literally delivers the promise of a user friendly experience, which is what I want. I don’t want to obsess about the libraries or Init system my distro uses. I just want it to work. I’ll let other amazing minds to worry about the philosophy and technical aspects while I just cruise.

I know I can relax thanks to other people who really worry and want everything to be perfect. I’m really grateful with them, I just don’t want to be them.

Yeha, mistakes have been made but I guess those are understandable for the biggest distro. But that’s the past. We can always switch between distros when needed. Atm Ubuntu is fine.

What if I use Ubuntu but I’d rather talk about the kernel than distros?

I had like 4 snaps installed in my system and it was hogging like 60Gb of storage. What the actual fuck.

I wish I kept the names of the dependencies, I just ran a command to remove all snaps and the snap itself.

Am I talking bullshit here? I saw my disk drop 60gb after I did that but I have no evidence.

My experience with Mac: “So you’d like to customize your cursor with something every other modern OS already has? Nha… but check this guy’s project from the store. It’s only $3.99/month for that! Oh, here’s a free one with 2 Github stars, it only needs full access to your window manager :)”

OK but why were you getting aroused by a tool?

It’s not even hard picking sides when Wayland sucks so bad…

(I don’t know what Wayland is either)

This is the most Arch Linux comment I’ve read in a while. This is easy in most mainstream distros now, but there are exceptions like NixOS or Gentoo, which aren’t shitty but are just harder for specific reasons.

The idea of the registry is so freaking nice. Imagine if all the configs of a system could be changed through a centralized and consistent API.

You wouldn’t download a girlfriend.

… wait, yes, yes you would.

🐇

Yeha, it should be done only for support.

I still think that support stuff should be opened FIRST in the forum tool because it gives visibility for search engines. Just label it as “Support”.

That should automatically open a thread in the discord server where people can discuss. The discord server thread should be tagged in the forum. If any bug/features come from that chat, then they can be linked to the support ticket.

If anyone has a similar support related issue, they’ll find full traceability using a search engine instead of having to find the discord server to search stuff.

Why do people do this when there are already Github discussions and issues?

This is not a problem with Linux, this is a problem with hardware manufacturers not making drivers for Linux.

Which is understandable, honestly. Making drivers is surely not an easy task. Targeting Windows covers the 80/20 rule.

yeha, but the big projects like linuxserver.io love creating docker images with root access, even if people have warned them it is an awful security practice. I rewrote all of their images in a personal repo, screw that. I won’t run shit as root in my machine, even in containers.

exactly. This was normal years ago, probably at the same time he used it. I’m not sure if kids are still saying these things in high school, but in the workplace this is 100% out of place.