Steve Dice

Don’t worry, we all went through that phase.

Don’t worry, buddy. You’ll get there.

It’s Ubuntu for people who think Ubuntu is for noobs. A little bit further ahead, you find Ubuntu again.

Ubuntu and Mint need to be repeated on the far right (the actual Sesame Street definition of “right”, not Nazis)

I’m guessing that’s why it’s weird

Is Linux desktop marketshare increasing or is desktop marketshare decreasing as a whole, though?

If you’re sitting on a Windows 10 machine that can’t upgrade to Windows 11, or if you’re tired of Apple’s walled garden, now’s the time to explore PureOS, a FSF endorsed GNU/Linux distribution.

God damn it. This is how you scare people away from Linux.

Booting too fast?

I did LFS a while ago. I can confidently say I didn’t learn shit.

That explains the elections

WARNING: Aptitude does not have a stable CLI interface.

Because of you.

Yep. That’s what I’m saying, Linux isn’t ready.

BTW, on my system /boot is ext4, /boot/efi is FAT32 and the rest mounted at /sysroot is BTRFS.

Your installation is probably quite old. It used to be like that but now the default is mounting the ESP to /boot. The old way makes way more sense to me, btw.

The /boot partition is FAT32 due to RedHat’s stupidity but that’s neither here nor there. The point is that regular users don’t know how to boot into a previous version of the OS. Yes, I know you just have to select it on GRUB but a black screen with a list of kernels qualifies as broken for regular people.

Linux does do the black screen and hope you don’t touch it, at least OpenSUSE and Fedora do. And that’s a good thing. The “reboot to update is bad” meme needs to die but I digress. I’m skeptical that Linux is more resilient than Windows when it comes to updating but even if it is, Windows automatically rolls back failed updates while Linux will boot you into broken system and expect you to know what to do. Regular people can’t deal with this, even if the answer is a simple as selecting a different entry from the GRUB.

What you stated was a lie. I don’t know what to tell you 🤷🏻

Even if you keep your code in a separate file, if you link to GPL code, according to the FSF, your code should be GPL. The law says otherwise but they would still sue you.

Until everything breaks because the average user held down the power button mid-update because the computer wouldn’t shut down.

I’m with you, I don’t believe it’s ready but the command line is not an issue anymore. I only ever see it because I’m an stubborn old man who insists on using Vim. Truth is, if something you do on Linux requires the command line, doing it on Windows probably requires group policy, regedit or something like that, which are equally esoteric.

Not those examples!

Just a couple of days ago libreoffice decided to ignore my dark application theme but still honor my dark icon theme so I had white icons on white background making it basically unusable. Took all of 30 seconds to fix but imagine it happening to my 65 year old mom.