An international team of physicists has achieved a breakthrough in understanding something that has puzzled scientists for decades: the discrepancy between experimental measurements and theoretical predictions of magnetic properties of the muon, a heavier cousin of the electron.

That’s the blogspam version of stuff that’s already documented in the pmOS wiki.

Couple things there are many computer users that don’t play games like for example me.

And in which credible statistic are those?

Enterprise Linux is not the same as a container

Of course not but you didn’t specifically say desktop-only Ubuntu/… installs and Ubuntu is still very popular in containers that never see any desktop. Ubuntu also ships Plasma, flagship DE or not.

I’m not sure there are more Steam OS installs than RHEL/SUSE/Ubuntu installs.

Of course not, if you phrase it like that. According to your phrasing non-desktop container setups also count but they don’t.

Distributions like Ubuntu also ship Plasma. The preconfigured disk image is called Kubuntu but that’s still Ubuntu and counts as that in Steam’s surveys which I consider the most reliable source of what actual GUI Linux users actually use.

I must admit that I fail to see what good that could do.

In theory the one place where you can enter your Nextcloud or whatever credentials and syncing for calendar, mails, file storage ect. happens automatically everywhere after confirming which services should connect.

It’s not my personal must have feature but when it works, it’s alright.

yea, gnome is “more popular”. doesn’t mean it’s “better”, just that it’s the default environment for some of the most widely-used distributions.

But not SteamOS which has the numbers on its side. Not that Gnome is unpopular but Steam Deck single-handedly pulled in millions of users who at least occasionally switch from game mode to desktop mode (=Plasma) to install emulators and stuff.

Lmao get fucked my HTTP requests are not a signature to your terms

True but registering for accounts is.

Looks like you failed at your duty of sexual education.

That actually varies by instance

Well, this community is on programming.dev and the rule here is:

1.3. You are at least 16 years old and over the regulated minimum age defined by your local law to access our services.

https://legal.programming.dev/docs/terms-of-service/

Then stop interacting with any community / user on programming.dev RIGHT NOW!

1.3. You are at least 16 years old and over the regulated minimum age defined by your local law to access our services.

https://legal.programming.dev/docs/terms-of-service/

Nobody’s enforcing it so who gives a shit?

Without caring to read the replies to that mail, pretty sure it’s because the forum feature can be seen as a social network and they just don’t want to deal with getting guardian’s approval and similar BS some laws around the world may require. openSUSE is a corporate-led distribution after all. They have to abide by different rules than some dude remixing Ubuntu in his bedroom.

the impact of this vulnerability is mainly on servers

The impact is any Linux install without root access for its users.

Automated test suites became so good, many regular people can just use rolling release distros these days.

Unfortunately, it’s time to change.

If you didn’t switch to a credible distribution after all the shit Canonical pulled already, you won’t switch away from Ubuntu this time either.

Yup, that’s why I’m still looking.

I think the best current candidate is WebKit-GTK but here’s the looking bit again: I’m looking for a WebKit-GTK browser that adopts traditional cross-desktop UX and not GNOME header bars.

The only ads I notice is that apt shows how many packages can be updated through an optional paid Expanded Security Maintenance. This isn’t very obtrusive but I’m on a 4 year old LTS release currently so things might have changed.

Receiving updates for anything in Universe requires Ubuntu Pro which is free for home users but still requires signing up to give you access to that update repository and once you sign up, they can match your account with what you install/update, so there is server-side tracking. In theory there is the possibility of community-maintained updates there but that required adhering to Canonical’s draconian version freeze rules. Something Fedora and its derivates do not have to that degree (during a release cycle any update is fine if it doesn’t break compatibility).

I’ll stop looking for alternatives when it becomes a one click AI on button instead.

Problem is that well maintained alternatives without that shit don’t exist. Sure, there are Chromium and Firefox forks that strip all that shit but are you really willing to trust you data security with a fork created by two dudes in their free time to deliver updates the same day as their upstream projects? I’m not. So I rather use Firefox, turn that shit off manually and continue to hope that Servo will be good enough in two years (doubtful).

Red Hat has been all over AI for a while

Hosting LLMs is different from pushing AI crap down end users’ throats Copilot style.

At least Firefox recently got a 1-click “AI off” button. I’d prefer if Mozilla concentrated on the rendering engine first and foremost but that 1-click solution isn’t so bad. So at least there’s that.

Just use the best option for you.

Problem is when people don’t use what option is best for them and make everything worse for the people who are then asked to help them (or even worse are completely unrelated and have to bear the burden anyway). There are fundamental problems how Canonical distributes security fixes (many locked behind Ubuntu Pro which is free for personal use but still requires signing up for it) and these problems are inherited by Ubuntu remixes like Mint and popOS.