This is really something to complain to government about.

You have to be invited to Epstein’s to make an impact like this

Linux has become captured by the US empire

fwiw, it’s really common in shops where windows is the most common os.

the t60’s in particular never stopped surprising me at how much abuse they can take.

and engineer had accidentally run over it with her car and it still booted.

i was wondering if it came with snaps enabled by default and you’ve answered it.

how about the desktop environment, is it still stock gnome/kde/lxde/xfce/whatever?

my first professional experience with linux came doing tech support for ubunu & red hat on thinkpads.

this was the mid aughts so they were t40’s, t60’s & x60’s and i always marveled at how well they were engineered; you used to be able to swap out the hard drives, keyboards, displays & cases without tools (but it was easier if you had atleast a screw driver around).

it was so easy that it would be one of the first things that we would do to minimize amount of time that the engineers spent getting tech support. if they had even the slight tangentially hardware related compliant like slow wifi; we would almost automatically pull out the harddrive and slap it into another shell and send them on their way.

i used popos when i had a system76 machine because of the support and always wondered what others get out of it if they don’t have the support. is it preferable to ubuntu or fedora or any other distro for any particular reason?

i’m guessing by the name that it’s based on debian instead of ubuntu?

does that it doesn’t have snap?

it’s funny that you used psuedo-vm; i’ve always wondered if i would have been able to recover the disk image was qcow instead of whatever wsl uses.

pseudo-Cm

what’s this?

probably some social media giants run Linux or UNIX-like OSs, too.

i would be surprising if most didn’t.

agreed, Debian’s rock solid for 99.99% of people.

You just have to also accept the fact that if you’re doing something niche like VR gaming or using weird third-party custom hardware or something Debian sucks ass.

i’ve worked on predominantly debian based infrastructure professionally for multimedia companies in the last 10ish years, so it’s a little bit funny to me that og flavored debian doesn’t do this, but it clearly can if you can afford an army of developers to create it for you.

entire multi-billion dollar revenue streams literally exist because of debian doing this and doing it well, but everyone popularly and unquestioningly believe that you can’t do it on linux. lol

The only problem I have is that CTRL+V get intercepted by the terminal before it get to vim. That means that block visual mode is not available to me

this was was my biggest gripe with wsl because i do 95% of my work with the vim and bash and i’m saddened to learn that it hasn’t gotten better.

boring is awesome if you need to just work all the time and for a long time.

the last time i used wsl on a work windows laptop, windows fucked up the virtual disk drive and everything in it was gone.

this was about 5 years ago, so hopefully it’s gotten better.

is that a pinebook?

my /boot is also 2 gigs and i’m glad you shared this; thank you!

you should also know that it’s a double edged sword if you go with linux first vendors because you’ll likely never learn from resolving your own technical difficulties that arise as a result of hardware that is not 100% linux compatible.

i learned so much from putting linux on my windows & mac hardware; that it enabled me tow work on linux professionally for the last 21 years. switching to linux first hardware 5-ish years ago made my knowledge of people facing issues atrophy, so i bought windows first hardware to re-acquaint myself.

as a mac & linux user since 2002 and i had a time machine to do it all over again but correctly this time; i would go with a linux first vendor like system76 or tuxedo or any other vendor that uses 100% open source hard/software. (ie coreboot/libreboot).

linux can work on almost all hardware (including mac) but you’re mileage is going to vary a lot and only the linux first vendors can give you an experience that rivals mac and windows.

every time i’ve heard a decider state the reason why they won’t embrace linux, it’s always because they don’t believe that linux is capable at handling the same scale that microsoft can and that’s despite the fact that significantly larger institutions realy on linux.

the excuse feels rehearsed since it’s always the same.