“Free software” doesn’t mean you don’t pay for it, but that it respects and preserves the user’s freedom. The opposite is not “cost software” but unfree software.
Most of the other points in this list are also questionable or inaccurate. In fact, I think the only true one is the first one: open source vs closed source.
It’s the best of the Chromium-based browsers, but closed-source is a shame. I wish Firefox would copy some of Vivaldi’s UI ideas.
I don’t recommend PopOS! because I think the Gnome UI is confusing to people who have only used Windows before.
KDE Plasma is so much more snappy and functional than Windows. Linux has lots of good options.
It’s important information but not really a very beautiful or useful way of presenting it.
1991 to 2024, I think the only other OS that has managed that is Windows.
Also the various BSD-based OSs. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD etc. are still around, and MacOS is based on BSD too. And since BSD (1978) is a Unix, you can trace these all the way back to 1969.
Yeah, the AUR seems pretty dodgy.
Lots of genuinely useful things and tangible improvements to look forward to on this list. What a contrast with Windows announcements these days, which are full of features that are either trivial or user-hostile.
I’m already confused about their product naming, and they haven’t even launched any of these processors yet.
Thank goodness these things aren’t confusingly named.
Yeah I find it impossible to program at 60fps.
Emacs is more of a religion.
ZDNet content is 100% worthless these days.
There’s also JetBrains Rider for a .NET IDE that runs on Linux.
I have swapped Linux SSDs with Mint and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed between an AMD desktop PC, an Intel desktop and an Intel laptop and never had any problems. They just boot up and work. Even the NVIDIA card in one of the desktops didn’t cause any real problems.
If you tried this with Windows, the OS would break, even if it booted at all, and the software licenses would all become invalid even if you could fix it up technically. You’d spend days fixing driver problems and teaching it to find its own partitions. Linux is amazingly portable.
It’s good that it didn’t get into Leap or Enterprise. Servers for businesses shouldn’t generally be using Tumbleweed.
It sounds like to be really vulnerable a machine has to expose SSH to the internet. So if that’s correct then most typical home computers should be safe. Based on that assumption I’m not rushing to wipe and reinstall.
Linux Mandrake in 1999. It was a bit rough and featured a very ugly KDE. I didn’t use KDE again until about 18 months ago, and it is now my desktop environment of choice.
Users are probably aware of that with most software. But for something called a “theme”, we’re used to expecting it to be a bunch of non-executable resources. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who gave it no thought and made this assumption, since it applies almost everywhere else we see themes.
I’ve used it for about a year on a laptop with an 8th gen i7 and Intel graphics. It works well there.
Libre Office is also available on Windows.