Every DE apart from GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cosmic and a couple of obscure tiling WMs is still based entirely on X11. We are still a very long distance away from abandoning X11.

Yes, many of the very good ones really are just philanthropic contributions driven only by the site authors’ interest and charity.

Ubuntu because you literally need zero setup and customization to get going after a fresh install. Everything is silently built in and everything just works.

aether.bar, with the extension + febbox token

LOL, how do you suppose the protected class will fare if the provider class stops participating as a result?

Straight men can’t vote on laws for women and LGBTQ people? Sure, then straight men will also refuse to extend public safety protections and social security nets they provide from their effort to the women and queer. How would that hold?

Why would they? The current stable kernel release is still v6.19

Fixing tech debt is more a people/commercial problem than a technical one. You just had to send a report to one guy, but that guy has to spend ridiculous amounts of energy convincing execs and stakeholders that it is worth breaking their current real workflows for a future imaginary payoff. Piling AI on the broken establishment model is relatively more appealing. That Principal might have just done you a favor you didn’t realize.

Yes, unfortunately you have to clean install (they have a guide for it). It’s fine for me since it’s based on Debian, which has a very long support cycle spanning two or more years generally.

No, I chose systemd for the familiarity.

Why not just switch to systemd-boot?

Strange, I have weed stashed with me and two joints I rolled two months ago but haven’t been touched yet. Just never get in the mood.

Just upload ye olde tarballs onto your static raw-HTML-coded site like the classic programmers (like the legendary Monsieur Bellard) do.

My gaming PC has no personally-identifiable information whatsoever and can be purged freely at a moment’s notice.

Checkmate.

Wanna hear a limerick?

Lambert, Lambert, what a prick.

inb4 everybody except the people who have actually been daily-driving linux for 10+ years have an answer

fwiw I use Mint

If you’re a pirate I always recommend keeping your gaming/media PC dedicated to only that and do other work stuff on another computer. That way even if you catch malware or viruses it can’t harm any important stuff.

LOL, try this attitude when working on a job where (thanks to LLMs) management expectations are now updated for you to ship at twice the speed or more and see how long you last

It’s honestly remarkable that LLM code generators are somehow succeeding in making writing software easier where graphical RAD tools failed. Frontier software dev engineers may argue it to be useless for complex tasks but the regular analyst or officeman is definitely better off for internal CRUD use cases that’d earlier would have required them to consult the dev team.

Many GOATed piracy resources have always been hosted on Github. Massgrave and abbodi1406’s Windows and Office activators, Goldberg’s SteamEmu, and many of the public wikis that accept edits through pull requests.

Airdrop? Windows Network (SMB) Sharing?