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Linux vs Windows? One is a popular computer operating system, the other is some kind of advertising and data collection tool from Microsoft.

It used to be the largest, a few years ago. It used to be among the best, a few years before that. It’s still pretty good, but no longer suitable for everyone like it was in the old days.

You say “smart move that helps manage risk while having no real impact on anything”, I say “foolishly craven gesture that demonstrates incompetent leadership while having no real impact on anything.”

Quodlibet is the one with all the features.

How to get age verification into linux? Easy, just tell Poettering that if he doesn’t hurry up and do it first, some non-systemd approach might become the standard.

With a title like that you know it’s going to be 100% FUD. Not that Canonical doesn’t deserve some of it.

Do people still spend a lot of time complaining about all the dumb things Ubuntu did? I haven’t heard much about it for a few years, really.

Somebody should go ahead and make an “is-user-old” command that just reads from /etc/age.txt and returns YES, NO, or IDK.

Apparently there have been attempts to make a free OS based on Apple’s kernel, but wikipedia mostly talks about them in the past tense. Too bad, it would’ve been good to have such an option.

Like many, back when it was fashionable I was open to the possibility of that idea being correct and I guess it’s still best to keep an open mind, but the results thus far suggest otherwise. Using Hurd is somewhat difficult for most purposes. Using cron rather than systemd timers on the other hand is much more pleasant and easy.

In that case there are alternatives for each component, most often more than one, though they may lack here and there some feature you believe to be indispensable.

There isn’t “an alternative” to systemd because nobody who hasn’t drunk the kool-aid believes that anything like it should exist. The syslog, the cron daemon, the dns config, the log rotation, the ntp server, and even the init system should not all be part of one giant tangled mess of a project.

I like how the “FAQ” answers questions nobody was asking and accuses opponents of truth, freedom, and systemd of “decontextualising comments on merge requests” without mentioning what was actually said by whom in those merge requests so we could judge for ourselves. As a PR move to put out the flame war (which itself does seem really pointless) it seems counterproductive. But it looks like it’s just another reddit post, not an official KDE policy statement or anything.

He’s the Senior Director of Corporate Communications. “Teams” is what came to mind for him first when he thought of online meetings. To me that suggests more than that he occasionally uses it reluctantly when someone insists on it.

Red Hat and Canonical also get mentioned. Consider my inclination to stick with Debian once again reinforced.

Okay fine, guess I really do need to learn (the rest of) Rust now.

If they have to change the names of things, Xfce users are probably fine with taking it one letter at a time.

It’s fucking systemd again isn’t it

Poor Nvidia… the AI bubble is going to burst, the gamer market has all kinds of reasons to hate them now, and all they’ll have to console themselves with is several trillion dollars.

Okay I’m not surprised that C and Rust are popular, but I didn’t expect there to be so much Vala in there.

That was a lot of reading to learn that the two things were:

• He had some kind of problem with the laptop Wi-Fi driver on his new install of Ubuntu, and — pressed for time, away from home — decided that the best way to fix it was to reinstall Windows.

• He’s unwilling to give up games whose devs have chosen to make them impossible to play on Linux. It’s not clear which one he’s hooked on, but Apex Legends, to Fortnite and Valorant are mentioned.