Linus Torvolds and the folks at kernel.org work to continually improve the kernel and ready it for each release cycle.
Ubuntu and other distro maintainers take that work and make sure that they are shipping to you a compiled kernel(s) that dependably works with all other software on their distribution.
Maybe someone close to him has a hot glue gun.
Be the only user that can run code as root.
Microsoft and their “trusted partners” do not deserve closer access to my hardware than I have.
It’s the internet, mate. The world is your oyster.
Get friends that only game on linux.
Linux compatibility or I send it back!
I use IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono
You can put a myriad of setup and administration options into the GUI and most people still have no interest in them. These people just have no interest in using a computer like that. They “just want it to work”. It’s not a CLI v. GUI problem, it’s one of assumed responsibility.
This is an inherent limitation of “free as in freedom” software.
“Free as in freedom” really only refers to developers. The non-developers are beholden to whoever packages and distributes their software for them. We Linux users who aren’t system developers let the “distro maintainers” do the developer work for us. That’s why a distro’s website is full of mission statements and declarations of philosophy–it’s how we decide who to trust.
And it’s the same for the “non-nerds” with system administration. Businesses hire admins to handle their internal software and networks, and at home people let Apple, Microsoft or Google take increasingly more control over their devices so that they aren’t responsible for getting it all working.
Apple’s success came from Microsoft’s negligence. Too many people had Windows XP computers at home wrecked with toolbars and spyware and garbage.
And people gladly left for a walled garden platform that locked down everything and didn’t require them to administer their own systems.
The biggest success in the Linux world has been Chromebooks and Android, where Google administers the system for the user.
Most people don’t choose linux because they can’t administer their own system. A system that lets them administer however they want has no appeal to them. They instinctively know they can’t handle that responsibility. They need their hands held.
Linux is based on unix, which was an operating system designed to run on computers like the PDP-11 of the 1970s.
The problem is that computers have changed a lot, and Richie and Thompson couldn’t perfectly forecast all those changes. Most notably, it predates the internet.
Anyways, computers changed and so systemd was invented to copy MacOS Tiger’s launchd service model. Here’s the only video you need to watch on the subject
TuxRacer is the bees knees.
I can’t type somethymes
and Ctrl + L is the same as clear
GIMP is, last I checked, RGB colorspace only, so it’s not a real choice for anyone doing print work.
I’m not a distro hopper, but 6 years ago I ditched Windows and chose Manjaro in the i3wm flavor.
I learned a lot initially and now “live in the terminal” whenever possible and I’m still using the same install.
If you want to learn more about linux, I can recommend it.
lDK if straight arch is better (as i’ve never used it) but I think I kinda prefer not having a constant flood of updates.
I knew I’d find this comment somewhere.
You have to manually install new kernel branches with manjaro-settings-manager
Just using pacman isn’t enough. There is no linux-latest package like in arch.
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