Only those that can't weather huge price hikes, lack of public service, and defend against supposed federal agent just robing them out.

Maybe I can get arrested when I become homeless and die in jail instead of on the street.

Do it quick, lest you end up in a foreign death gulag to top it all.

Yeah, I'm sure China's trembling at the mere idea.

Why are we talking about them again?

I only buy boxes of 2x2. I suppose the only way is to get all four out at the same time.

When I switched to Ubuntu, they just had more up to date packages, and with two releases a year (sort of), stayed up to date with other software, which is a good thing for a system I actually use. From then on, I just stayed on it, because I don't reinstall my OS until something's broken. I've been moving the same one for a decade now.

If I had to install a new desktop system I'll probably go with mint, for the same reason : more frequent software update.

Note that this is all for desktop (and some specialized systems). Servers are all running debian, because stability is preferable and frequent software change is not what I want in these environments.

If made correctly (which is hilariously easy), it's a clean install and uninstall process, support some level of potential conflict regarding files that are shared with other packages/commands, support dependencies out of the box, and with minimal work can be made easy to update for the user (even automatically updates, depending on the user's choices) by having an (again, very easy to setup for a dev) repository. With the added value of authenticity checks before updating.

All this in a standardized way that requires no tinkering, compatibility stuff, etc, because all these checks are built-in.

Note that some of this probably applies to other system package management solutions, it's not exclusive to .deb.

Ubuntu support online (I mean, the size of the community) can be useful. And besides the snap and "ubuntu advantage" thing, they're mostly a more up to date vanilla Debian, which is extremely convenient because, Debian.

It's obviously good for people used to Debian, but it's also great for other, because of the regular updates. But in fairness with your point I've been thinking about moving to mint since it's basically a de-snapped ubuntu.

A rusty bucket riddled with holes and the stick part of a shovel is better than snap for running software.

It was explicitly said to not use this outside of VSCode, so, I'm not sure where the surprise comes from.

The problem is that they’re killing competition.

So, they pay to develop a product, for themselves, explicitly says "it's only for us, shoo shoo", and when they decide that their product, that they pay for, and provide for free to their user, should not be used by other, it kills the competition that did not do anything except take the product for free despite being told not to?

I'm not on the side of Microsoft for most things. But if doing nothing but taking someone else's free product qualifies to be competition that should be protected, we're having problems.

It's ok, they're well known to go against useful advice anyway.

Peaceful protest against law enforcement snatching people in the street without any form of justification and sending them to death camp abroad does not work much either.

A bucket of bullets does not sound that threatening. A bucket of battery acid, tepid water, or mud, a bit more. Although I would not recommend escalating stuff in general, people fucking around pets needs that sometimes.

Here's a plan : leave the engineers do their work, stop interfering with innovation, and just shut the fuck up. Not sure it would save tesla, but it would get a fighting chance.

"Next time it won't be water".

Firefox, the software mainly driven by Mozilla, which is heavily investing in AI and ads ventures? That Firefox?

But, maybe "it will be different this time", I guess.

I've been thinking about keeping a running windows on the side once I switch my "gaming" system. There's two things that won't work well (or at all) on Linux: fully PC-tethered wireless SteamVR with my current hardware (HTC Cosmos Elite), and a ripping software.

I might keep a small windows running for VR (although I'm currently looking into trashing the hardware if a good alternative shows up). For the ripping software, I'll just stitch a script that uses existing open source software to do roughly the same thing.

And I might just get a small box, like a 200something computer with only Steam and the wireless card, to remote play VR through it, if that's an option.

Bye bye windows.

As someone outside the US, I was told that people were very keen on keeping lots of guns to react in case the government tried to pull this kind of shit. When's the part where they react?

I'm sarcastic; I know why it isn't happening, and realistically it would be a terrible thing, but, you know, we're living in the weirdest time.

also the “GUI” for debuggers on Linux aee pretty much just separate terminals for gdb, and often I can’t just jank my way out with printf() from various issues

And that is an issue because…?