I cannot install Windows 11 on my computer without using a hacky work around because Windows 11 “requires” SecureBoot and TPM, but my computer doesn’t even have UEFI.

You’re absolutely right. The fact that people can work around the requirement for UEFI, TPM, and SecureBoot shows that it still runs fine on legacy BIOS. I’ve been saying this forever, it’s like a car radio company telling car dealerships to only allow them to be installed into cars with car alarms and then claiming that the radio is secure (when the security is a feature of the car, not the radio). It’s such bullshit…

Because physical mail can be easily opened with a warrant. Encryption can be nigh impossible to break. The idea of a vault that cannot be opened no matter how hard you try is something that scares law makers.

Wiping old stuff won’t hurt, but they might not actually delete it.

Literally on Thanksgiving I pulled my work Mac out to do some stuff. It didn’t know my monitor from home was unplugged. I had to find hotkeys to move windows to the current display because Settings was opening on the non existent display which it also thought was the main one.

That is to say, even macOS gets this shit wrong. There is no perfect OS.

I like my work Mac but I’d never buy one myself. They’re extremely overpriced.

If Python has no haters I’m dead.

I mean, I get your point, that’s why I said “slightest”. I’m basically just saying I understand their perspective.

I have the slightest bit of sympathy. So many companies got their shit scraped and fed into AI models. They lost out. They’re afraid it will happen again.

Congress: create organizations to enforce its rules

Organizations: enforces those rules

Congress: yo, actually only we can do that

No fucking way!

It says posts containing links. That means links to news stories. You are currently engaging with a post that is a link to a new story. Maybe you shouldn’t be here. Go find a “real” news site.

Your account is self marked as a bot. You may have done this unintentionally. You shouldn’t mark yourself as a bot if you’re not unless you want people who have selected the “don’t show bots” option to not see your content.

I definitely saw someone named “TripleK” (not a euphemism, it wasn’t KKK) playing Secret Hitler on Board Game Simulator. They kept saying a bunch of racist shit. I remember saying “it’s called Secret Hitler, not obvious Hitler” lol. I tried reporting their account but don’t remember what happened.

That’s the only time I can ever specifically remember seeing someone being anti semitic on Steam. (Not saying it doesn’t happen more.)

I think I agree with most of what you said. My one doubt is about Wayland. I was under the impression it was still a relatively new/niche thing that had problems. Is this no longer the case? I ask because you recommended against things like immutable distros because they’re not super mature yet.

Note: I’m technically inclined but don’t use a Linux distro daily. My personal laptop is my old work Mac and my work laptop is a Mac. My older personal laptop runs Xubuntu.

I’m going to actively voice my support for this mentality, more than just an up vote. People saying things like dual booting and rolling distributions are good ideas for genuinely new users who, like you said, have never opened a command prompt or regedit, really shouldn’t be suggested those types of things.

The average dev/tech enthusiast has a horribly bad habit of drastically over estimating the average person’s technical ability. While I believe it’s reasonable to expect new uses to want to try and learn (I’d hope everyone would want to learn sometimes), the reality is that most folks won’t.

The one that just makes me want to scream is when people suggest installing Arch via the wiki. I did this around 2015 or 2016 on a VM and couldn’t get it working. To be fair, I wasn’t terribly motivated to really dive into what was wrong, but people act like it’s really magically simple and clear cut when it’s not. (With the major caveat that perhaps it’s gotten better since last time I tried.)

I think so many of these discussions go to shit because of who the target audience is intended to be and who the responders believe the target audience to be.

My dual boot has never broken on multiple computers. Whether is be Debian, Ubuntu, fedora, or arch.

That’s great, but it’s still shockingly common and not something newbies should have to try to fix

ACID go brrr

At least it’s not “Source: I am a pedophile” lol