Hey #Canonical. Stop trying to make everything a #Snap. #Snaps suck. Nobody wants them and we've already moved to #Flatpaks and #AppImages. Stop forcing your agenda on us.
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.
SUSE, who now has a CEO that comes from Red Hat, joins forces with Oracle and QIC to produce yet another supposed Red Hat clone instead of promoting their own product. I can only chuckle at this announcement. Get the real deal. Get RHEL. https://www.suse.com/news/OpenELA-for-a-Collaborative-and-Open-Future/
@jwildeboer Personally, I think it's kinda bad that #RedHat was kinda becoming the de-facto monopolist.
Tho it's not as if @SUSE and @ubuntu could've made better offerings before, and I still think that unless one has a harsh #Vendor#LockIn#Ubuntu and @opensuse are the better options.
I just wished #SUSE and espechally #Canonical were more commited of building good distros than weird shite like this...
One thing that kinda pisses me off about @tails is that it's #PersistentStorage - which is just a fancy name for #LUKS encryption - is absurdly restrictive and the #setup doesn't even want to work.
Like yes there's a reason I'm booting the #ISO via #Ventoy [ https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html ] and yes I want to use the vacantly kept 8GiB at the end of the flashdrive to be useable as for persistent storage and no, I need that drive to be as is since it's a #multiboot drive designed to be easily updated.
Personally, I think that having a second drive and/or booting @bunsenlabs#BunsenLabs#Linux to update the tails ISO securely is a more convenient option that doesn't require costly centralized infrastructure and just works.
I know why Canonical/Ubuntu is doing it like that, but it nevertheless every time feels kinda odd when they switch to a #Linux#kernel series that upstream gave up and tagged "end of life" two-and-a-half months ago already[1] – something the article doesn't even mention.
@kernellogger If #ubuntu/#canonical wants these EoL versions I'm wondering why they don't hire (/ clone) someone like @gregkh. And then officially maintain that version for everyone and on kernel.org? I'm wondering if the main reason why some kernel versions become EoL so quickly is because it would be too much work for Greg alone?
Is it safe to express my appreciation to #RedHat#Canonical#Intel and other corporations that fund #Linux development? Yeah, they sometimes do things to protect their interests we don't understand or agree with. Maybe if #Oracle enslaved baby seals to write code it would be a step too far. But for the most part the world benefits when corporations contribute to #OpenSource, the same as when universities and individuals do. That's what makes #FOSS awesome.