lucidwielder

Sorry but Fritos of software is dumb & in no way representative of bringing old chromebooks back to life beyond their support date.

Schools often buy the bottom baseline of everything & in now way was a 4gb of ram a good, decent or proper experience to begin w/ & their replacements probably also had 4gb of ram - just a faster cpu, gpu & ram to hide that it’s lacking ram still.

I think schools could easily band together & make their own education focused Linux distro & then just focus on hardware that’s compatible w/ that’s Chromebooks or Windows laptops. Hard part would be building out an on par MDM &/or ldap server if not using a Windows server.

All Chromebook are is a browser basically. It already is the bag of Fritos imho. I think the hard part though would be to hire an IT guy that knows Linux better than the students tbh. Schools already under pay teachers in the US & that goes 2-3x for IT staff.

One can only hope. I think it is better if the developers that care about clean UI and workflows were to focus on Ubuntu Budgie or maybe even Budgie 11 or entirely new DE altogether. But as far as modern feeling and clean UI design I really do think Budgie 10.5.x is an overlooked gem of a DE.

It is fine to be opinionated, but I always found the… opinions I guess by the people over at elementary to be rude, condescending and not really in the interest of its actual users. I think if that weren’t the case though there’d be tons more people volunteering to make it one of the most popular and best distros around.

Ha - I actually have Windows (WinToGo) dual booting with Ubuntu Budgie on the same usb stick - plus a non-encrypted ntfs partition. The OS partitions are encrypted though given that is portable. Working out the LUKS details and boot partitions was difficult however as there is a serious lack of good information on how to do it successfully.

Better way to say it imo, is that you have the extremist on the right expanding at a faster clip than the left. And most people do want to be moderate, they want to believe the middle road is justified & yet it puts them solidly conservative w/o them realizing it.

It sucks it does imo & if I saw equal reactions on the left then I’d call it out but I don’t.

Many of them still act as apologists for some pretty despicable ideas & groups nonetheless.

As if they can stop the people that literally stood up these sites. But yea - money has a way to wrap left leaning people too. I don’t think Spez or Dorsey started out dumb.

Elon… moreso given his privilege & weird connections early on. Just glad my gf stopped swooning over him. She didn’t want to believe me about him till more stuff came out that she could relate - wasn’t enough that he he was an asshole to nerds that worked for & with him. Plus discrediting the actual founder of Tesla & pretending the guy never existed.

Why was it linking to web archive instead of the source?

Might win me back over if the weird green lines and glitching I always see with chrome on intel GPUs under linux goes away. I’ve also spent a lot of time trying to debug the issue but nothing ever seems to fix it and of course none of the Linux driver devs that might be able to fix it care to work on the problem imo.

Guess I have felt lucky to have hardware decoding at all on chrome - considering the it has taken Firefox this long to support intel GPUs. I imagine it has something to do with how massive their codebase is compared to everyone elses.

Tbh you are best off start new projects on Debian, and slowly move your old stuff over. It’s linux - the main difference will all be in the package manager and versioning.

And that is dumb. Companies with any sense will veer to debian and distros that are going to be open with their own contributions because gasp - you can write code, put it out under gpl v2 or a permissive license and make money on the support contracts like they were doing.

My question is… has the reason RHEL and centos been as popular as it has been simply because of a 10 yr enterprise support term this entire time or something else?

I get Ubuntu Server only lasts for 5yr - unless you go spend for the extended support… but was 5yr LTS from ubuntu server really that make it or break it for people setting up solutions for companies? I feel like the upgrade path is also pretty painless on a 4-5yr cycle as well most of the time. I get it would be even nicer to set something and forget it for a decade - but reality is the 10yr term could be anywhere along the line, not like a new release was happening every year or 2 I doubt. I mean LTS does have that sorta overlap every couple of years so I guess maybe so did centos and RHEL, but still.

Tools are often built of specific and older versions still as well and with containerization being what it is now… I feel like Redhats big advantage of 10yr support periods is kind of diminished from what it was in the 90’s or early 2000’s.

If lol? I think it is obvious that they will already - at least for anything tech or dev related for sure and that will be enough to sustain it because obviously those same people have other interests as well, and will attract gamers and the rest. It may take time for the Vinn diagrams to all align with each other but the rest will come eventually.

How reddit itself formed… tech the tech centric audience from Digg and slowly everyone came along with them - even if they didn’t like the transition initially. Reddit has literally committed suicide whether spez realizes it or not. I think obviously people like Mark Zuckerberg and the guy ahead of twitter - pre-elon saw it coming, why bluesky exists and why Facebook wants to join as well before they become irrelevant.

Spez is a fool who can’t see past his own nose and just wants to cash out by IPO’ing - but the thing is he’s both too late and mishandled the IPO already. He will get the absolute smallest pay day of all the platforms that have gone public in any way imho. I am sure he’ll make out fine still, but it will be a small pittance that it could have been had he shown an ounce of respect for the reddit community.