Dude we literally have that unix_surrealism comic there’s at least some love for BSDs here

If it wasn’t for those rascally penguins I would be flat broke trying to afford the latest system requirements for Windows 12 or a mediocre MacBook instead of a $120 5 year old Dell Latitude, how dare they!!

Modern Israel is not Judaism! It’s not the same theocracy described in the old testament. It’s not even religiously pure, there’s a sizeable Christian and Muslim population. It’s perfectly valid to respect Jews and and their beliefs, and to criticize Netanyahu’s government for attempting to crush Palestine and kill its civilians indiscriminately in raids. Jewish folks in the US and abroad are joining in the protests to stop the war - this isn’t about being antisemitic, this is telling a very atrocious government to stop behaving as a similarly atrocious government did 80 years ago

Poor Tux, it’s a rough life

You sure your laptop isn’t splitting graphics to an Nvidia DGPU? Usually it’s flawless unless I’m using Ubuntu specifically

I actually am okay with the appearance, but there is just way too much emphasis on doing things that the user base doesn’t care about, instead of actually fixing bugs with the product and solidifying it. Which, okay, I guess some folks are fine with that, but being the most popular distro, why try to drive so much innovation at the expense of stability?

I just revisited it a short while ago on hardware that had actual 16.04 compatibility confirmed by vendor back in the day and it was a battery hog and a call tracing dumpster fire on 23.10. Then I switch to Debian 12 and not a single problem. I don’t get it.

The Canonical cycle:

Canonical solves a problem nobody was experiencing or needed a resolution for

Canonical pushes problem resolution as a major component of Ubuntu

“Resolution” impacts Ubuntu use negatively

Users get the pitchforks

Canonical kind of mitigates the issue somewhat but not completely

Canonical goes back to thinking about problems nobody is having

Repeat ad nauseam

“Why doesn’t this just work I never had this problem on Windows!!” leaves no necessary information to troubleshoot

Vs.

“I have this specific and obscure workflow I use with this one package nobody has heard of, I perform XYZ action and after I ran pacman -Syu I’m seeing that the application is segfaulting and leading to this call trace…”

Five page dump of dmesg

“I mapped this to line 748 of the Linux-Zen kernel source file can somebody help explain how I can work around this?”

No responses for eternity, thread archived

Ubuntu 8.10

I don’t like Ubuntu anymore but I loved it then

This is a very good point, I forgot gaming laptops are almost exclusively nvidia

People just think “gaming?? OH NO I NEED MY NVIDIA!!!” while AMD is sitting there like “hey. Hey I have a card that’ll work. Hey. Card. Right here. Works better in Linux. Less headaches. Hello. Hey person. Card. Hi.”

Well there’s always Gentoo at least, though not a BSD Unix of course

I don’t have a tutorial to recommend but starting to play around with Minikube myself, should skip the need for an actual cluster

That’s it, I’m setting up a LFS box and hostnaming it something garden-related, there’s always a package to be updated

Thank you!

Mattermost is a FOSS alternative that works well

Know any good Autistic communities in Matrix? I’m in the market, I love mine but it’s in Discord and they ain’t moving.

I play along with my kid using Grape juice, was a bit fiddly to get cooperative but after a reboot it works consistently for me on Deb 12 through Flatpak/Flathub.

Didn’t realize, good to know, thank you!

You totally don’t want to just learn Linux command line and how to use the youtube-dl/yt-dlp packages through WSL or a Linux distro, that would deny corporations all of your money and be way too convenient. Thankfully it’s not intuitive to learn or there would be so much more piracy!