"240 million PCs could end up in landfills when Windows 10 support ends"
Sure.
Or they could be repurposed with #Linux or Chrome OS Flex, or #FreeBSD, and we can stop being so freaking dramatic.
If you just browse, watch Netflix, shop, net banking, etc, Linux distributions like Mint or Ubuntu could save you money. It is an environment-friendly option.
For a minimalist system that wants to be a successor to #tomsrtbt and #Floppinux there isn's anything smaller nor more efficient.
After all, I don't expect OS/1337 to be used as a "#Server" in lieu of @ubuntu / #UbuntuLTS or #Debian but instead want to use it as a clean foundation for other projects of mine in need of an #OS.
Wenn du noch nicht viel über die Themen weißt oder noch unschlüssig bist, solltest du dir das mal anhören - gibt einen guten Überblick über diese ziemlich ausgereiften Powertools.
@flyinggecko@stdevel knar, ich betrachre es jedenfalls als.lustig wenn irgendwelche #SystemD-Hater sich als #Emacs-Fans entpuppen weil das komplett absurd ist...
Ich selbst bin ja nen Fan von etweder exzellent umgesetzen Distros ( @ubuntu#UbuntuLTS ) oder konsequentem Minimalismus ( #toybox / #Linux & #OpenBSD)...
"Ohai, this is Windows. You may have noticed that I killed all the long-running jobs that you left going overnight and restarted your computer so that I could inject some AI-flavored bullshit you never asked for into your (*) operating system. You're welcome!!!”
(*) “It's not actually yours, of course. The OS now works for our Marketing Department rather than you. kthxbai.”
Whenever I see comments like this about #Wayland I always have to ask, who do you think would be developing this new protocol? Every single #Linux graphics developers agrees that Wayland is where we're going, the problem is nobody agrees on how it should look
I think I will follow my usual routine of only upgrading macOS when the latest stable Xcode version requires it. I’ll see you on Sonoma sometime next Spring!
There seems to be a prevalent idea in tech that software has to be difficult to use, because if it’s too easy, it’ll attract too many “low quality” users who will use it to create low quality content, thereby dragging down the software’s reputation.
I just think this is some smug elitist digital tragedy of the commons bullshit.
Which is why I do prefer offering the easy-to-use yet good solutions, like #UbuntuLTS...
After all, I think it's dellusional to expect the average #User to learn how to use #OpenBSD or even embedded #Linux when that's unnecessary for them...
i really don't think #linux users recognize: we are weird for using linux. and that's okay! but we are like literally less than 5% of the desktop computing userbase. nobody knows what the fuck a compiler is or how to debug a package manager. they just want to browse reddit or whatever
I've mentioned this but I'm gonna make a real post.
If you are setting up Windows 11, select "English (World)" as your language (English Europe also works), and you will have NONE of the third party bloatware installed.
No Candy Crush, no Netflix, just the first party apps
Please do share this info with anyone who may be setting up Windows soon
The entire city of #Yellowknife is being evacuated. This is unprecedented and terrifying.
And thousands of citizens aren’t aware because Meta continues to block news in the country.
This is what happens when citizens are convinced to use an American multinational corporation as their community’s primary communications channel — a corporation that couldn’t give two shits about anything except its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders.
Our IT dept took over my PC a while ago, and installed Chrome. As I hate it for multiple reasons, I uninstalled it. Turns out that it comes with "Chrome apps" like Gmail, Docs, Sheets and so on. But uninstalling Chrome doesn't uninstall the rest. They're left in the Apps list on Windows 10.
Anyone an idea how to clean up that mess?
Also @StevenRogge can we PLEASE remove Chrome from Intune? The bugger keeps trying to reinstall on my machine and I do not need that garbage.
my condolences to anyone who has to sell this right now 👇 #macos with linux you can still use older mac as macOS Sonoma drops support for another wide swath of Intel Macs