Heroic exists independently of GOG, which limits them to the decision of an independent developer. Essentially, they are at the mercy of Heroic dev to support GOG.

Porting their own application ensures they maintain control over software stack and also get improved security.

Thanks for sharing!

As per Cinnamon on Debian - I certainly remember installing Cinnamon version of Debian 12 (“Bookworm”), so it does exist, unless it was removed in Trixie. Check the installer options :)

Not all heroes wear capes o7

That’s a strong magic right there.

Are LMDE and stock Mint close enough in versions and features that you can always efficiently support stock Mint users?

Also, is the base Mint software updated regularly, or does it depend on the Debian 2-year cycle?

The problem with old cars is that, eventually, they will die, and all we’ll have is the surveillance boxes, no alternative.

This is part of why it’s so vital to keep the fight for surveillance-free vehicles, even if, for a brief moment, you are still able to avoid part of this monstrosity.

Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European commission

European commission, in turn, enabled laws allowing police to backdoor messaging apps in Europe. Read about Chat Control legislation if you want to know more.

I was personally amazed that it handles my ancient printer from the get-go. None of the other distros had the driver available, it had to be downloaded and installed separately. Here on Bazzite - complete plug & play.

Favorite: still searching

First: Manjaro (actually went quite smooth…until it didn’t. Still grateful to have it, might not switch if it didn’t exist)

Current: Bazzite (immutable distros finally matured enough for me, works perfectly fine for non-gaming tasks as well as gaming)

Distro you liked the least: Ubuntu (was the reason I didn’t get to Linux earlier and got only worse from there)

Distro you want to use in the future: Debian (needs to stop being so easily broken, it’s a stability distro ffs)

Distro you used for the longest time: Fedora (generally a good experience, but doesn’t play fantastically well with nvidia)

Distro everyone likes but I don’t: Linux Mint. (Cinnamon is severely limited and looks dated to me, and it broke like a week into me using it. Not my choice, but apparently others have better experience)

Honorable mention: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (awesome stability and native rollbacks, but didn’t fix a much highlighted update breaking nvidia drivers in two months, prompting me to reinstall; didn’t ever face breaking issues with other hardware)

Too much corporate control and enshittification. For example, when you use apt-get to get native packages, it can instead download a snap package (which works differently, is controlled by them and might not be preferred for many other reasons), even though you clearly meant not to.

Canonical (Ubuntu’s developer) is trying to push people deeper into the ecosystem they build and control.

Then, they roll out a paid Ubuntu version, Ubuntu Pro, separating paying and non-paying customers and turning Ubuntu into a subscription-based SaaS.

I don’t think framing it generationally is useful. Your average mum and dad have little to nothing to do with it.

Maybe

Then yeah, by all means

Sure. But would that be convenient?

I hold nothing against buttons if people really want them, but many others would just prefer a larger touchscreen, and this seems to be the target audience here.

Because buttons take space, reducing space available for the screen that has, well, the book.

The good sensor is the answer, IMO. I only wonder how should it turn on and off, then.

After using Proxmox for a while, I swear by LXC, at least the way it is provided there.

Makes containerization make sense without all the pain.

Disclaimer: not even an IT guy, so can be gravely mistaken, just want to own my stuff.

selfhosted use Discord

Lol

Discord absolutely failed them They consider starting another Discord server

Double lol

Of course not! Something getting cheaper for retail is a tragedy for the markets.

Some players take the mask off straight away:

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/112379/get-used-to-it-says-lenovo-as-it-expects-high-memory-prices-to-remain-the-norm-until-at-least-2030/index.html

Making good use of your already existing hardware is always a superior choice

Relax and wait for pirates, especially when PC launch comes 😏

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/488/