Soo, booting your computer from someone else’s computer?

I mean we’ve had thin clients and PXE for ages?

DDG has also gotten much worse since the introduction of AI features.

It used to be somewhat better: Corel Linux and Creative apps existed…

Thank you for the info! Otherwise I would have missed the deal. The affinity suite is the best thing since Photoshop 5.0

I had the Mandrake Powerpack that came with two books. I basically memorized the entire console handbook while on the loo…

Gretlat that they’re making progress! aTM windows still flicker or fail to show content. I’d love to use it in production later this year maybe …

I am dependent on a couple of programs I run via wine - and wine still isn’t directly compatible with wayland and buggy with xwayland…

It’s actually worse! Last jan Microsoft bricked the entire fleet of laptops in my company with a borked generic driver update. It overwrote the sd reader’s vendor driver blocking all storage access from working whatsoever. From one week to another more or less all devices refused to boot. They basically killed our entire company for half a week, until IT could walk people through efi-disabling the sd reader in every laptop (recent industrial models mind you) just because windows had pulled in the wrong driver. So… no - it’s not great at all with automatic driver installation in windows …

Thanks I might try that. Unfortunately I can’t mount everything at boot, because that would take forever with some slow NAS around the network.

Yeah, though I presume I’d need to set xdg values so mounted shares through nautilus will show up in programs/interfaces. I’ll look into it, thanks.

How on earth can people stand using Windows full time? Everything I’m on a Microsoft product I feel claustrophobic!

Isn’t it a feature when Windows is gone?! 🤷😵‍💫

It’s more of a double edged sword: snaps were great imho when they replaced the mess of old we had going on with thirty or so incompatible ppas.

But why force snaps for central stuff like FF/Chromium and soon Thunderbird?

I just upgraded an old PC and reinstalling Ubuntu meant that all my configs of these apps and then some broke. Snap is using incompatible storage for dotfiles and configurations. And more often than not central Desktop functions like the cursors (atm no hand cursor in FF for me!), sound and common extensions don’t work ootb. For the odd piece of speciality sw I’d had to go hunting for before that’s alright. But not for everyday stuff

Come on canonical, don’t enshittify you great distribution…

Hegel

I won’t be buying. I got into refurbishing old quality peripherals a while ago, might not need any new and neutered devices.

Soo… Bye Logitech, it was good while it lasted with you.

You know that abebooks is a subsidiary of Amazon, right? As is ZVAB in Europe. They really have the market by the reins.

If AMD was able to come to the bright side, so can Nvidia. There’s still hope, ye faithful!

Duplicity (cli) with deja-dup (gui) has saved my sorry ass many times.

Blackberry used to have a “global device search” feature. I’d love something like that for Android.