Same here for physics and astronomy. The relevant ones are on Mastodon and it is much better that using another corporate for-profit platform controlled by another billionaire techbro. Let's not make the same mistake again.
I really wish there was more focus on AMD CPUs/APUs with Framework Laptop. With more choice of their offering and especially with more powerful CPUs. Because they did not have something more powerful the last time I bought a laptop I went with KDE Slimbook V and am extremely happy with it.
Can confirm. For really good fractional scaling and other modern display tech to really shine on GNU/Linux you need to use KDE Plasma desktop. Others are still catching up.
Hard to see what they want to say. I would imagine yeah current market practices are a failure when it comes to properly supporting libre and opensource software. So we need to surpass failures of the market system and come up with something better that has better support for FOSS.
openSUSE Tumbleweed, because it is the most stable and predictable rolling-release distro. When they update a package to a new version the do quite some automated QA testing on it so it works properly, and also on the related dependencies so that all integration tests still pass before they release thw updated package to the repository. Also the snapper is very nicely integrated into the system, and before each updated a system snapshot is taken and also another snapshot is taken after the update. And the snapshots are automatically added to GRUB boot loader. So even if something goes wrong with the updated and th QA did not catch the problem you can still easily and quickly switch to an old working snapshot. In addition to this they also have one of the best KDE Plasma desktop integrations into the distro and their YaST graphical control/settings center is awesome.
Even if it shows being turned off you can't be sure it really is. And yeah they have a tendency to secretly turn malicious features on with little updates. One would really be naive to believe them after their past bad behaviour. It is just another step in slowly boiling the frog to death. Maybe it will be off by default only for as long as people get used to it and normalise it and then, next step turn it on again, more quietly of course.
Even if it shows being turned off you can't be sure it really is. And yeah they have a tendency to secretly turn malicious features on with little updates. One would really be naive to believe them after their past bad behaviour. It is just another step in slowly boiling the frog to death. Maybe it will be off by default only for as long as people get used to it and normalise it and then, next step turn it on again, more quietly of course.
Exactly, even if it shows being turned off you can't be sure it really is. And yeah they have a tendency to secretly turn malicious features on with little updates. One would really be naive to believe them after their past bad behaviour. It is just another step in slowly boiling the frog to death. Maybe it will be off by default only for as long as people get used to it and normalise it and then, next step turn it on again, more quietly of course.
Same here. I am so glad my parents and aunt decided to switch to GNU/Linux. I live quite far away from them and with Windows had to travel a lot for constant problems with Windows (about each month). Since they switched to GNU/Linux, it is mostly just set and forget and now it happens less than once a year that they need my help with their computer. And even if they do it is so much easier to do it remotely.
