I’m not sure about the legal intricacies of it, but there is commercial software being distributed through flatpak on Flathub for a while now. The first example that comes to mind is Bitwig, a well-known, paid, commercial Digital Audio Workstation: https://flathub.org/apps/com.bitwig.BitwigStudio
Also, Flathub is working on offering paid apps: https://news.itsfoss.com/flathub-paid-apps/
I thought this may be a consideration too, but I would expect it to be a minority of websites that would do this, no?
I thought this may be one of the considerations.
Interesting about .onion websites, thanks!
For sure, it seems to be much less talked about than the distro itself. I’m not sure how well it works on other distros, so that would warrant research.
The primary purpose of archive.is is to get around paywalls though. That’s the only thing I’ve ever seen it used for.
Out of genuine curiosity, what is the reasoning for using the Win user agent?
When you go deep enough
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That’s wild!
Very interesting article, thanks! I had wondered about this. The whole thing sounds pretty mysterious. Who knows, it could be Meta behind the curtains, lol! They’ve been known to resort to piracy to feed their AI.
I believe I’ve heard that you can use the Nix configuration tool that gives this functionality on any distro? But yes, I’ve also avoided it so far because it seems complicated. Perhaps in the future, when I’m more versed on Linux.
If you list what specific software you use and whether you’re willing to try alternatives to any of it, people may be able to give you guidance on how your Linux experience may be. There are lots of people doing music production and digital art on Linux, but it depends on your specifics whether it will work for you or not.
Regarding distros, I’ve seen many people here make the argument that immutable/atomic distros like Bazzite are not ideal for newbies or more complex use cases. If you’re considering immutables because of the comfort that comes with their being more easily recoverable from OS update or configuration issues, I would suggest looking into one of the OpenSUSE distros, either Tumbleweed or Leap. Those two give you many of the advantages of easy recovery without the disadvantages of immutables.
They do this by taking a different approach to recovery. Instead of making the OS root immutable/atomic, which forces you to do a lot of workarounds in certain circumstances, they used the approach of automatic and transparent system snapshots whenever you update or install any software, plus hourly (I believe?).
This is the main factor that led me to choose OpenSUSE for my own personal use. There are other positives such as a reputation for stability, excellent integration of KDE, and YaST, which is their easier to use configuration tool for many system tasks. I’m only at the beginning of my journey though, so I can’t fully endorse it yet because I haven’t fully settled into it and spent much time daily driving it.
Agreed. I think we’re still going to see a LOT of growth in Linux market share by the end of this year. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 7%-8% by then.
They used a different data source for this one and mentioned why they preferred this one over the one from the day before.
It’s not what you would normally call an ergo keyboard with a curved / split key bed, but I think they’re superior to the majority of recent laptop keyboards, especially compared to the flat square chiclets of MacBooks and the others who blindly copied them. The keys are curved so you get tactile feedback of where your fingers are and the action also feels good to type on.
That’s definitely been a catalyzing factor for me. I had fiddled around with Linux and had been pretty ‘meh’ about Windows for years, but I was just coasting along the path of least resistance. Them telling me that I could no longer use my perfectly functional computer for Windows was the ‘last straw’ that finally what made me begin to take action and get ready to say goodbye to Windows.
If you think about it, Microsoft’s timing for this is really perfect. Wait until Linux is very viable for desktop use including gaming then tell vast numbers of your customers that they need to ditch a fully working computer in order to keep using Windows. I expect that this figure will probably double by the end of the year. There’s another article by ZDNet now that says that the share is more like 6% and rapidly accelerating. I’ll post it on the main Linux community if hasn’t already been posted there.
archive.is probably next? It sounds like the same kind of tool.
I want to switch to Borg backup but haven’t found the time yet.
Since you haven’t switched yet, perhaps consider restic too. I looked into Borg when I was trying to decide which backup software to use, but ended up deciding on restic instead and using resticprofile to ease implementation.
Thanks!