true. I will adjust my comment. Good logo!

Lineage is not gegoogled? You have to install google services seperatly, when does it connect?

I suppose if corporate status is inherited that may be correct. in my opinion, its a bit too far removed to be corporate. Asahi linux is a purely volunteer distro, and ubuntu mobile was discontinued years ago, and is also purely volunteers-run nowadays.

There are some weird picks here. Is replicant even maintained anymore? UBports and Asahi Linux in Corpo-ish? And what do you have against LineageOS?

I never tried pirating native linux programs, but windows stuff worked well for me. Use some sort of wine prefix manager for this, like bottles. I used PlayOnLinux, but its an old buggy mess and there are modern alternatives nowadays. There is also umu-launcher and stuff that uses umu, which is more for games, but also works well for programs.

The most trouble I had was with installers and setup tools that need certain files to be in certain locations. There is a mod manager for Dawn of War 2 thats an exe that needs files from an installed game, and it was very bad on linux, with missing fonts and crashes. I got it to work with some fiddling however. On WineDB and ProtonDB there is guaranteed at least one person who had any given problem and has an arcane solution, or at least a bug report with lots of information, so try there if you are stuck. Good Luck!

Edit: Here is the WineDB link, seems to work well, but it was only tested up to version 17. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2793

I personally have no faith in Xlibre, its developer(s?) seem inexperienced and their contributions to x11 codebase are of low quality

Thankfully there are other projects around keeping x11 alive:

theres xwayland-satellite, which implements more of x11 in wayland so you can basically run an x11 session with wayland support.

And than there is phoenix, which is a new implementation of x11. Supposedly it shall have none of the legacy garbage code that makes x11 so hard to maintain.

Why would it be DMCA’d? Ive never heard of a DMCA on a linux distro…

I would also like to know, I heard from somewhere that power profiles deamon is the modern solution and the other 2 are older, but all 3 are still supported so I think its personal preference. Tlp has more finegrained contol, and ppd has better defaults and “just works” for me, no idea about autocpu-freq.

The only DE I know that does that, is enlightenment. I really miss that feature…

I am using Ubuntu 14.04LTS “Trusty Tahr”…

Wow that is ancient! Interresting feature, I wonder if it could be reimplemented as a wayland protocol, however I think some modern IDEs and some text editors have something similar nowadays.

I found this community branding very confusing. They should have just branded the version for organisations as “Enterprise edition”!

Its not a backdoor, because secure boot was never about safety to begin with. Its just a piece of security theater, whose primary use is more control for microsoft. “Secure” boot only boots software signed with a microsoft key, thats the “security”. Microsoft also allows linux distributions to be signed, but nothing is technically stopping them from just refusing, for " security reasons", and on some systems secure boot cant be turned off. So it being bustable is a good thing. There are other ways to protect devices from physical access, but generally, if attackers have physical access to your computer, then its compromised, secure boot or not. Framework just didnt want to play along.

Sure. The steam version is easiest, just install steam, get the game through steam and it should just work. Heres a website that tracks compatibility with linux through proton, valve’s solution to running windows games, its installed by default when you get steam: https://www.protondb.com/app/389730

$ walk north

Is it the Ur-Quan masters, aka Star Control II?

sadly, there are a lot of important newer x86 patents that are still years off, and new ones are added every few years, so the best you could do next year is a 20 year old chip.

oh wow, no one is left from that disagreement, they both resigned.

Alright, fair. I was more refering to the content of the message, not the (botched) metaphore of maintainers as a force of order.

I read the “thin blue line” email and it seems… reasonable and sensible? And seeing how he is so appaled by it makes me question his judgement a bit.

Its finally happening??

hmmm, did you try switching(vendor change) all system packages to pacman? (an option in the yast software installation module when you select the repository)

They recently added support for this in the kernel for AMD cpu cores, so this might have changed.