This is dumb because it’s making it out to seem like there are Super Distro Wars and not just folks calling out bad decision makers like Ubuntu and Manjaro, and non-free-as-in-beer distros like Zorin and Elementary
I’m pretty sure outside of those two categories nobody really cares
Yes, it’s their OS from around the time. Was pretty good, worth playing around with a little, WinWorldPC has images if you’re interested. It can run I think Windows 3.0 as well inside the OS if I remember right?
I see a lot of claims of gatekeeping, just never the actual gatekeeping lol
Why modernize 3.11 when you can modernize OS/2 Warp instead?
Let’s get completely unnecessary:
# systemctl isolate runlevel6.target
Fedora is a good thing to do with the way you are not a huge fan of the day it’s a good time to be there about 8 minutes from home so I can get it and I’ll be there in a few minutes from the store to the house it was a lot of fun with the kids and I don’t know what to do with the way it is a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of…
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!!
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.”
I could see something like this being a common use icon, it’s very well done. I prefer this look to having the big bodied Tux on a small icon, this solves the problem well. Good job!
I was going to say Russia must love humiliating themselves but I guess this is painfully obvious the past 2 years