small slice: The stuff you can observe with equipment affordable to schools and colleges
big pie: The stuff you can observe with orbital telescopes, particle accelerators, 2-mile-long drills, deep sea submarines, or not at all
small slice: The stuff you can observe with equipment affordable to schools and colleges
big pie: The stuff you can observe with orbital telescopes, particle accelerators, 2-mile-long drills, deep sea submarines, or not at all
They’re still on Xitter, though.
It’s vanilla Fedora preconfigured for gaming on Proton, then made immutable.
Does there need to be a solution?
Do E-Sports competitions on identical certified hardware and otherwise ban people caught cheating.
Root kits aren’t necessary for having fun in a game.
At my job I run what my employer wants me to run. I get paid for it, they get to decide the OS.
But at home I’ve been running Linux since 2006.
Endeavour is great but it’s not simply Arch with an installer. Quite a few things are configured differently under the hood.
Why do I keep reading it as “and I forgot I wasn’t human”?
Why are text editors cloud services now?
I wish we could get rid of Citrix yesterday, but:
On a side note, this non-descript general advice at the end of the article “The discovery of these vulnerabilities in the Citrix Workspace app for Windows underscores the importance of maintaining robust cybersecurity measures.” is obvious LLM speech.
And the fact that nowadays, running a CVD through ChatGPT and publishing the results is a thing people do fucking triggers me.
That was my reaction, but with even more tears and less laughing.
We’ve been dealing with this shit for the past 3 days.
How the fuck do you even create a security hole that lets unprivileged users accessing a client app get SYSTEM rights to the server?
Didn’t even know that was technically possible even if you tried to program it.
Oh well, at least we’ll have an up-to-date client device inventory and no more BYOD shenanigans at the end of it.
I looked behind the scenes quite a bit in Debian and what you say mirrors what I saw. The project is very political and does suffer from a serious lack of man-(and woman-)power in many areas. If you do want to help, you’re almost immediately hampered by the community’s Byzantine structure.
If that puts you off, Arch is a more dynamic project that’s easier to get into as a maintainer. But it’s also organized with a more hierarchical and less democratic structure.
Additionally, you’ll find the issues Debian has all over the FOSS world (The Linux kernel is especially bad). And if you work in corporate IT like I do, you’ll soon notice that proprietary software organisations are no better. There’s software many people depend on maintained by a single overworked and struggling person everywhere you look. Yet it still works somehow. Cause wherever there is demand, a solution is found. And Debian at least has a long-established structure with the goal of finding that solution, even though it’s antiquated.
Tumbleweed includes the YaST package manager with all the repository priority settings that make sense in Leap, but the TW documentation tells you not to use it.
You can run zypper up
which is a standard updating method in Leap, but the TW documentation tells you not to do that. More than half the zypper options make no sense in TW.
That’s the stuff I mean by “derivative”. They built on a Leap base and modified it into a rolling release.
If it was truly designed as a new, independent rolling release distro, they’d have taken those things out, packaged a different version of zypper or at least a different manpage.
Debian. I run Stable on servers and Unstable on desktops.
Although I do think OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch are actually better in many aspects, I find Tumbleweed too rough around the edges (it’s a derivative of Leap and that shows). And I just can’t be bothered to install and configure Arch anymore. Fedora and Ubuntu are too buggy on average, Mint is too “stable” for a desktop and I don’t use all the helpers that make it newbie-friendly. Slackware suffers from issues that were solved in the Linux world decades ago, and I dislike derivative distros on principle.
I’ve probably tried around 30-40 distros and I always return to Debian.
I’ve used Linux for 20 years now, and yes the experience was similar to back then.
But back then, there wasn’t a better FOSS option. Now there’s modern Linux.
Don’t get me wrong, I think BSD is a great system. It’s just not the right OS for a new-ish convertible laptop.
I tried FreeBSD on a laptop.
It spammed error messages all over the installer’s TUI until I disabled my fingerprint reader in BIOS.
Then I had to patch and recompile the kernel to get it to talk to my laptop’s battery sensor.
Then there were half a dozen other issues I solved one by one, like getting the touchpad and the camera to work, and auto-detecting my networked printer/scanner.
Then I read up on why WiFi is so unbearably slow, and the solution was to pass-through a WiFi driver from inside a Linux VM.
I didn’t actually notice any end-user advantage of having a “fully integrated system” either, so I gave up and went back to Linux.
No, the ones who use Linux don’t go outside.
Is that a question!