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Yes it does, regularly. Don’t know what that person is talking about acting like it somehow wouldn’t.

They update Cinnamon regularly, and the main release is updated when Debian has a new stable release. This makes sense, since it’s based on Debian instead of Ubuntu. LMDE 6 is less than a year old.

Amazon sold at a loss, but I don’t imagine the employees or suppliers and their employees feel like being paid was a waste.

PPA shouldn’t be used on Debian.

Systemd also added systemd-bsod, but it’s for boot failures.

Uh, yes. Physically touching thousands of computers to boot them into safe mode and delete a file is time consuming. It turns out physically touching thousands of machines is time consuming anywhere, especially when it is all of them at once.

Which is why your take is laughably bad. Stick to the tech and not zealotry next time, and maybe not CNN for tech news.

This is a laughably bad take.

You do realize sysadmins were fixing the Windows issue and not just waiting on Microsoft and CrowdStrike - right? They just had to delete a file.

That first issue was triggered by falcon, but was legitimately a bug in Red Hat’s kernel triggered by bpf.

We’d all be running BSD or Hurd, and not some hobby project a college kid made just for fun.

I think Ubuntu was and probably continues to be the real “spiritual successor” just because it is still widely used and is still very polished and user friendly as long as you want to keep with their experience. However, to really compare the “ease of use” (hand holding?) vs contemporaries of Mandrake, Elementary or Zorin might fit the role. They are simplified compared to even Ubuntu, Mint, or Pop OS.

All of the distros have gotten so much easier than they were at the time though. When X got autoconfiguration rather than a distro installer trying to guess and generate a config it was a huge game changer from the way it was before (the days when Debian warned about destroying your monitor). In some ways I think this was one of the largest ease of use changes we’ve had. The other stuff just got better.

I think they are mostly compelling to people who like the nostalgia and were fans of Mandrake. Mandrake was hugely popular in its time. I somewhat doubt they are getting a ton of new converts, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

How dare they not commission a piece.

eBay has implemented their passkey support poorly. “Turn off” will invalidate them. Most sites have a list of passkeys and you just delete the one you don’t want working anymore. At that point it doesn’t matter who has it, it’s useless.

Laptops are often taken outside the network.

You delete it from your account, that makes it invalid. Just like removing an entry from authorized_keys. If the site does this after changing the password or not is up to them.

Bet the recovery key was stored in the users MS account. More common since they are pushing the online accounts so hard.

You tell your thesis advisor they suck at their job.

A third party driver could break things, but a combination of different things can break things too. Crowdstrike on RHEL was causing kernel panics within the past month until Red Hat updated their kernel.

NT is a hybrid kernel, with bits of both.

Nah it was specifically related to their usage of BPF with the Red Hat kernel, since fixed by Red Hat. Symptom was, you update your system and then it panics. Still usable if you selected a previous kernel at boot though.

It was panicking RHEL 9.4 boxes a month ago.

This specific issue is different than the other specific issue, correct.

The point is, “this could only happen on windows” is wrong.