Actually, if Linux/BSD/... doesn't work the way I want it to, I can always tweak it. Win or Mac? Tough luck. So Linux's usability is always there, whereas the proprietary OS's quickly hits a very hard, annoying wall.

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.

Ehrlich wäre zu sagen: wir lebten und leben immer noch in einer teils pädophilen Gesellschaft, da haben sie alle mitgemacht. Klar kannst Du auf Kirchen (Mehrzahl!) zeigen und Du hast recht. Aber alle anderen Lebensbereiche ausblenden ist nicht.

Hintergrund: ich arbeite im Sozialbereich und kenne bei allen die Leichen im Keller: Kirchen, Kommunen, freie Träger...

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

Pädophilie ist leider ein historisch endemisches Problem in Deutschland: Kirche, Vereine, Staat (Schulen, Heime, Fürsorge), alle haben mitgemacht. 1 Sündenbock dafür ist zu billig.

Das liegt am Staat, nicht an der Kirche!

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

2008 ultimate

I'm still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.

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 ...

Emacs ist doch die Kirche des heiligen Ignutius

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.

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...

Great, so a lot of people are going to have a clear upgrade path (including me). Otherwise OpenSuse would have lost me (and I imagine others) after 25 yrs or so...

Hurrah: "There are no plans to drop the classical (non-immutable) option for Leap;..."

Genau so ist es! Und was brauchen wir für eine funktionierende Infrastruktur? Genau: Arbeitskräfte! Und woher bekommen wir die? In meiner Branche gehen in den kommenden zehn Jahren 3x mehr Menschen in den Ruhestand als demografisch nachkommen. Ohne Einwanderung sind wir doch am ****$&#@

For me the direct opposite is true. About two years ago Google stopped giving me any accurate results, feeding me a bunch of semi-related garbage instead. DuckDuckGo feels like the Google of old: results that actually (literally) contain the terms of the query and not much else. I'd hate using the internet without it.

Honestly all this feels like the railway's Dieselization 100yrs ago. When the end of steam powered engines was drawing near, coal hauling railroads and Baldwin Locomotive in the U.S. tried all kinds of whacky and hilariously inefficient engine designs, just to keep the ol' ways alive... none of these worked out - everyone who stuck to it lost hugely. Viz. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_class_M-1

Hegel

Wer Einfluss hat, soll den auch nutzen. Wofür er:sie ihn nutzt, ist eine andere Sache. "With great power comes ..." usw. Hurz.

I think a lot comes down to preinstalled SW on phones (Chrome/Safari) and the enterprise world. My rather large employer just switched from FF preinstalled to Edge for all work devices since it alreadz comes with Windows.

Maybe Firefox is missing a really compelling enterprise offering for Desktops? Everybody less savvy is on mobile anyways, which is dominated by the Duopoly Apple/Google.

Actually in my country DuckDuckGo is the only reliable search engine left. Google started giving me a bunch of bogus results for very specific queries a couple of years ago. Sad that FF depends so much on Ma'Google.

Leider ist das Schreiben gerade für Senior:innen ein großes Problem. Das sollte nicht legal sein.

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.

Albion - sci-fi, somewhat like avatar (the movies), one of a kind and basically open world before that was a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_(video_game)

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

Er hat gesagt, dass ich dumm bin!

Wenn du versuchst daran zu denken Nicht daran zu denken das du dumm bist Obwohl du nicht dumm bist Was hast du dann gedacht? Hä?-Hä!

Who cares? Oh, all of you ... Ahem - have fun then, I guess

Affinity is just great and reasonably compatible with Adobe files. It's been my way out of the Adobe hegemony, after trying for Corel or Opensource tools for years. Without the creative cloud client crashing life has been so much more enjoyable !

Thanks for all the hard work going into this instance! You are fighting the good fight.

Wenn das jetzt noch andersrum ginger ... 🤩

DIESES!

(Wobei ich immer HalteHintern90 benutzt have und itzo lerne, das ist Dasselbe? Waaas?)

Die jlauen uns unserje offnen Stellen! Ds gibt nix doitschereres als kejne Handwerker unne gojle Schlange vorm Amt.