There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.
That’s not what I’m saying.
I’m saying you need to trust the people making your OS cause no way in hell is anyone else able to audit every update they push.
Whether your OS is trustworthy depends on their history. In that regard, I’d give Ubuntu a solid B-
Yes, they’re taking the source code from upstream, modifying (“patching”) it, compiling it, then uploading their compiled binaries to the Ubuntu repo where your system downloads them during an update.
You can technically download the source code as well, if you activate the source repo. But hardly any end user does. And the source code you get doesn’t compile to the same binary you get from the repo anyway. (This would be called a “reproducible build”. Some distros try to be reproducible. Ubuntu doesn’t, they have other priorities.)
You trust their repos.
With every apt update, they could push whatever code they want onto your PC.
Same as with literally any binary-based OS.
So can Canonical. The difference is, they don’t.
I think I was pretty clear with what I was asking in this thread:
“Is anyone here using an enterprise Linux distro?”
Can I assume you’re not actually running an enterprise distro?
I mean, me neither, yet, but:
I was really looking for real world experience, not a re-hashing of unvalidated opinions that have been around for >10 years (when they might have actually been true).
Probably the number one cause of borked Linux systems - trying to “de-bloat”.
If the servers can only handle a certain number of players, then they should only sell a certain number of licenses for the game.
Then, when concurrent player numbers drop over time, they can release more.
But no, they’ll happily take the money from everyone on launch even though their servers can’t handle the load.
Slackware Linux. For a while I thought, when it boots up KDE with a browser you’re basically done, and it’s kinda cool running the oldest surviving Linux distro.
The simplicity under the hood is kinda cool, too.
But every single thing I tried to get working on top of the base install (Flatpak, Steam, Slackbuilds, energy management, etc…) was a fight, and at some point I thought “fuck this, all these issues were solved 15 years ago by others.”
Is tape optical Media?
No, they aren’t to blame, but it makes “light” distros pointless.
This is likely due to EU law again.
They made it mandatory to disclose the use of AI for all but the most mundane tasks (like Spam filtering).
Also, there’s finally a good definition for what an Open Source AI is (only when the model and the training data are disclosed).
Germany:
Bielefeld. Everyone recognizes the name, it’s marked on all maps, officially it has a football club.
But in reality, it doesn’t even exist.
“bloat” is just short for “your computer sucks”.
Dump your peasant tier shit and go fill up that 42U rack.
Chicken, Alaska. Population: 12
I’d argue that everyone recognises “Chicken”.
Fun fact: The settlers wanted to name their town “Ptarmigan” after the birds that were abundant in the area.
But none of them knew the correct spelling, and they didn’t want to embarass themselves.
I actually used to own a cellphone and tyres from Nokia at the same time.
right. This is Weston (same distro):
Arch, cause I set it up to my liking once out of curiosity when I was procrastinating, wrote a script that automates https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance and now am too lazy to switch to something else.
Especially since maintenance involves typing Update.sh once a week or so, and nothing else.
Obviously, yes. My point is: Do you read and understand all changes in the code for each update? You need to trust the maintainers, cause they could theoretically push out any code with the update.