For most it absolutely is viable.

Linux is great for the average person, great for experts.

It’s the “pro-sumer” people that struggle most often. They’re the ones who know windows pretty well, know what apps they want to install, and have became used to the quirks of windows. They struggle to adapt.

Most people use their laptops for web browsing, YouTube, Spotify, and basic document editing. They’d be fine with Linux. They just don’t use it because laptops are sold with Windows.

You’re so strong. Thank you for your valiant effort.

Love this.

The more I’m hearing about the Pebble Time 2, the more I’m liking it and looking forward to my delivery.

But fuck the 30 day warranty. Stuff sold in the UK is usually 6 years of cover (albeit only 5 for Scotland). 30 days is actually pathetic.

Zorin is FOSS.

The fact that there’s a pro version where you can pay for support does not break the GPL licence.

FOSS does not mean everything must be free of charge. It just means the user can access the source code and modify/share it if they wish.

What a bizarre qualifier.

You may as well complain about a kitchen by saying “but can it roast my turkey without using that oven?”

Of course it needs some form of translation layer or emulator in order to run programs from other OSes.

So it doesn’t then. Cool.

It’s based on Ubuntu LTS, that’s true. But Ubuntu backports device drivers to older (LTS) kernel versions, so the performance/hardware support is often similar/the same as using a newer kernel.

I believe they call this backporting of device drivers the “hardware enablement stack”, but I may be misremembering.

PopOS uses this, but Mint I believe is a strange one. You can get a variant of Mint that enables the hardware enablement stack, but I don’t think it’s a feature of standard Mint.

Contrary to what many people thing, Gnome is extremely modular and customisable. It’s just not really exposed in the base Desktop Environment itself.

You can do literally anything with the extension system. It’s very powerful.

That does however mean that you can easily break things, which is why by default Gnome marks extensions as unsupported when a new Gnome versions come out, until the maintainer adds a text string inside the extension that flags their extension as being validated for the new version.

You can disable the version checks, of course, and just risk it. But usually I find you don’t need to. By the time a new release comes out, the Gnome beta has been available for over a month, and the extensions have already been updated in advance.

In the UK it’s illegal to claim roadkill if you’re the one who struck the animal.

If you weren’t, it’s free game (unintentional pun, nice)

At first that didn’t make sense to me, but I now realise it’s to prevent someone purposely striking an animal just to take it.

You definitely get more in the US, but Europe isn’t free from ads.

Windows still shoves OneDrive, office, and other things in your face in Europe. They still have featured news stories and the like. They still have recommendations in the start menu and such.

These are all ads, though we’ve been conditioned into thinking MS plastering OneDrive and OneDrive recommendations all over their OS isn’t advertising. It very much is.

If you have an Android TV in Europe, 1/3 of the home screen by default is an ad banner, just like in the US. Etc.

We are not free from ads. We just have it slightly better than the US.

There’s nothing wrong with giving money to FOSS projects.

In fact, a major issue with the open source world is users never donating.

I’ve never used Zorin and don’t intend to, but the existence of optional paid software isn’t why.

Because they’re a lot less capable than these companies are telling us they are.

Don’t get me wrong, you can frequently get some excellent results with them… but you can also get some really shit ones.

So not only does the bulk of this work require someone to do all the prompts, they also need to thoroughly check the work afterwards, meaning you’re not really gaining much, if anything at all.

Sooner or later, the venture capital propping up AI will realise that these enormous savings from laying people off en-masse isn’t going to materialise, and they’ll want their money back. The market correction will be huge.

Aw someone’s a wittle bit cwanky 🥺

Do you think everyone other than you is lying? And that all the articles about issues in Windows are false?

Let me get this straight - people buy a product advertised as having a feature, containing a part also advertised as having that feature, and then they disable it after purchase?

How is that legal?

He’s usually right.

*On software. For the love of god don’t follow his ideas on consent, child sex, or bestiality.

Nope. Google didn’t get anywhere with ChromeOS and it’s unlikely they’ll get anywhere with this.

Because when humans see a robot with boobs, the comments turn into “hey this robot has tits”, and when they don’t, the comments turn into “humanity is going to be euthanised by the machines”.

Reading this seems… fair? And there’s evidence to back him up it seems?

I bought FH4 because I live very close to one of the castles there and have visited a handful of other places. It’s genuinely very cool to see those places.

But so many other aspects of the game are really overwhelming. I do a race then there’s crazy flashy animations, multiple progress bars going up in the background with strobe lights, my character doing some stupid Fortnite-like dance, then it makes me do multiple attempts at a slot machine mini game?

I look at the world map and there’s literally thousands of things there, with no option to filter out stuff that you’ve already completed.

Maybe I’m getting old, but it felt like one of those mobile games that goes over the top with praise and animations to keep people’s attention and keep them on a dopamine high.

I want that map, with a story where you start with a shit car, and work your way up to better cars by doing well in races. I don’t want any of the flashy nonsense or the 500 online features (that don’t exist anymore because MS shut down the servers - now it shows constant connection errors)