When the US government demands that System76 hands over all info they have on the people who use their products, or decides to ban access to US software from countries Trump has decided in his mind are “playing unfair”, let’s see how far PopOS being FOSS takes us.
It is Linux! Honestly mentioning SUSE was a mistake since most people aren’t gonna use that. That would be for enterprises or government.
OpenSUSE, particularly openSUSE Aeon is the one I would use if I wasn’t too knowledgeable about Linux. It just works out of the box, and it’s an atomic distro so a lot of the guides out there for other atomic distros apply to Aeon.
“Legitimate competition is when other countries impose unwarranted tariffs on us while their companies monopolise our markets.”
PopOS! is built by a US company BTW.
OpenSUSE is German, Mint is Irish and so is ZorinOS.
Excellent, they should. Europe has many services that are already on par with American alternatives (certainly when it comes to Microsoft’s services), many are cheaper or even free, and actually respect our data.
We also have SUSE and OpenSUSE from Germany that work as very serviceable alternatives to Windows. I hope this wake up call that has been the US’s betrayal of all past allies leads EU tech to capitalize on it.
I don’t disagree with you.
Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.
The chicken or the egg, which came first?
If i were to guess, I’d say North Korea doesn’t engage with more standard economic activities because the entire western world refuses to do business with them. So they resort to illegal activities instead.
Not that this excuses much, but countries still need to survive somehow. Cuba is a country that doesn’t do any of the hacking that NK does, but that doesn’t save them from being mercilessly cut off from the world economy either. And NK knows this.
Also, I’m not a north Korean bot and I resent that the discourse around this topic has become so polluted that I have to preface by saying this.
Indeed, a little bit of intra-class war for them, for a change.
Idk what Microsoft did to the product but I wouldn’t call it an improvement.
I think the article we’re looking at here isn’t really hyperbolic. They got AI to write all their code and broke the Keyboard.
Just FYI, if you can live without swipping, I recommend FUTO keyboard., it is basically Swiftkey but it actually works and doesn’t come with Microsoft’s spyware built in.
It’s what I use now, and I’m really happy. Don’t be fooled by it being in Alpha, because it works flawlessly (minus the swipe, which is hit and miss).
So this explains why Microsoft Swiftkey is total dogshit now. Also why the Outlook app barely works.
Its unbelievable.
Who still uses search engines to find torrent, though?
Always the same gadlighters trick: acuse others of doing what you are doing.
And nothing of value was lost.
That’s what this conversation is about. Normally I’d chastise people for not reading through to the body of the linked article, but this time it’s right in the headline. You literally could not have reached this post without reading it at least once.
It’s called having a conversation and typically in those people move past the starting point on to other related topics. There’s no need to read malice into it.
You’re welcome to not answer further, too.
Well, yeah. What kind of security do you think normies are running? They won’t even get hijacked by an unpatched Windows 10 exploit, they’ll just try to download The Last of Us by opening “WatchOnlineMoviesFree.exe” when a pop up tells them to.
Well exactly, although let’s be honest: “normies” will downgrade upgrade to windows 11 because they always want the latest greatest thing.
Business operations will go with whatever is cheapest to maintain, which is the entire point of LTSC and the article in the link.
This might be true wherever you’re from (I’m assuming US?) but it’s in no way reality where I live. Here you must use a secure OS for businesses, you can’t just use whatever.
I suppose. We would have to know if it’s worth their while to work on security flaws (which I imagine they will put zero effort into and pretty much just answer to bounty hunter reports) for $30 a year.
But because I know Microsoft and am used to their shenanigans, I wouldn’t hold my breath on that lasting for too long.
I personally use Fedora (starting yesterday actually), but Mint is definitely a serviceable distro that works for a wide variety of people.
I simply don’t like how it stays so behind on updates (I see that as a big security and privacy risk), but if you don’t need windows-only proprietary software, or all you do is browse the web, then Linux Mint is a familiar and usable enough distro.
If you’re going to criticize Mint for being behind in packages, then you also need to criticize Debian, because that’s where the philosophy comes from.
Wow! Thank you for going through the effort of figuring out whether there was a solution for me. I really appreciate it!
You’re most welcome!
Which a shame because I do want Linux to be more widely used than it is currently, and I think small annoyances like this are part of what is holding it back.
And yes, I completely 100% agree. Hopefully there will soon be a fix for this, because like you said, it really sounds like something that should be able to be fixed relatively easily, lol.
Anyways, best of luck to you in the future!
Hey, so I just tested this and you’re right, it doesn’t work as you described.
I suppose I unconsciously found workarounds and just ran with it.
For the examples you mentioned:
I’m is achieved by typing ’ and then space.
ç you can get with AltGr+<
The other two, I have no idea what they are, but I trust your judgment.
I also went around some forums and yeah it appears other people report it doesn’t work as it should. A bummer.
Maybe there already are some custom keyboard layouts out there you can download?
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Lol. They can’t even get rid of the camera dock and now all of a sudden they’ll jump to no visible camera? I call BS on that.