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  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.comtoAndroid@lemdro.idVerified developer
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    24 days ago

    They can’t go to far down this line, they’ll have antitrust issues. They’re a mature company doing what mature companies do and letting the middle (marketing) managers who couldn’t run a bath, run the company by focusing on cost reduction not earnings growth, and bury it.

    We saw this with HP. Remember how we all used to buy HP printers for Linux? I still have my 1990s - please god - LaserJet and can still get toner.
















  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.comtoLinux@lemmy.mlAnother help me choose a distro
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    2 months ago

    If you’re new to Linux, you won’t stay with the distro anyone recommends for more than a month. It’s a truism.

    I’m not you. You’re not me.

    That said. Ubuntu isn’t the Ubuntu of old. The real selling point is the zfs, but you have all the other NIH stuff like snap etc. I’m not a zfs fan but I appreciate that it’s got a huge fan base.

    One thing to say is that you don’t have to have a one and only. I have at least two distros I use daily for workstation stuff. I use Fedora for typing and Arch for backups, debugging, rescue, and other fiddling about stuff (because Fedora gets in the way sometimes). Every distro has the same set of commands.

    distrowatch.com is your friend.



  • What things are and what the masses choose to call them, and use them for, are usually two different things.

    Asking the masses to understand a complex subject for themselves, and ascribe to it appropriate nomenclature, when all they actually want is something that echoes what they already think with more eloquence is folly.

    Reference: social media - a method to collect personal data from the masses to use against them, which they willingly and greedily supply, without recompense.