If Trump succeeds in taking control of Venezuela, Alberta’s oil idustry tanks. Maybe she’ll get punished for deepening dependence on oil.

You can say that again. A pretty depressing Sat all around.

A century of red scare propaganda.

Cuba is fucked.

Cuba is likely done too.

Working hard to win that leadership election. I hope it backfires.

Bourgeois class NYT readers:

I simultaneously take offence by the suggestion that Linux is good now and am happy the lamers at PC Gamer are promoting it. Ultimately I won’t be inspecting this particular horse’s teeth. *Quiet grumble noises*

Debian, sudo apt install steam-installer.

Things driven by the same processes moving in the same direction as they do elsewhere those processes drive things. 🫠

He didn’t and that’s the sign he’s doing an Obama!

For me it wasn’t so much the universal part than the reduced maintenance work that comes with bundled depdnencies which makes a package work over more OS releases without breaking, as well as the higher upgrade success rate.

But yeah I like the trusted repo model that Debian uses. It’s a lot of work by many volunteers and the result is great, so long as people keep doing it.

You don’t need Ubuntu Pro to get updates on 22.04 LTS. Without it you’re getting the same type of updates 12.04 was getting, for the same period of 5 years. The main repo gets security patches from Cnonical, the community repos get patches from the community. Same as it’s always been. With Ubuntu Pro, you get additional security updates for the community repos done by Canonical, like they do it for main. In addition you get additional 5 years of support for 10 years total. And apparently there’s now yet additional 5 that extends it to 15 but I haven’t read what that’s about. So for a user that doesn’t care about Ubuntu Pro, nothing has changed. For the user that wants to stay on 22.04 till 2032, Ubuntu Pro is an incredible deal. This kind of support does not exist in Debian. It can be provided by a commercial third party for a price.

Yup, udev is the right tool for this. I’d just put the script in /usr/local/bin, where it belongs.

I’ve been following Snap since it was called Click back in 2011-13 because it was solving a lot of problems that the classic, trusted package management had and still has. Problems that were elegantly solved on Android with the APK package and sandboxing system. That was pretty exciting so I might have a somewhat different perspective. :D

That’s the best source for this kind of news.

I’ve replicated this study and reached similar results.

In 2012 when Ubuntu was the default choice, new users were instantly told what flavours are and what the three options were and why they should choose one over another. The info was also straight on Ubuntu.com where you downloaded the install media from. The problem you’re imagining did not exist.

E: Also I’m not trying to recruit new users therefore I’m not demonstrating my recruitment prowess. I’m having a discussion about the historical context of Ubuntu and Kubuntu/KDE. I’ve successfully converted many laymen users to Ubuntu who still use it to this day. I’ve converted whole teams to Ubuntu professionally over the years too. I know what it takes to do either.

Respectfully disagree. Have been following many Ubuntu releases over the years, Ubuntu blogs and news sites, and the official flavours have always been showcased, talked about, major features discussed and so on.

Also switching between flavours has always been trivial even post-installation. I used to test-drive KDE on Ubuntu installs and GNOME on Kubuntu installs in the 2000s and early 2010s.

Kububtu (Ubuntu with KDE) has been an official Ubuntu flavour almost aince the beginning. During the Ubuntu consensus years, it was being promoted along with Ubuntu for every release.

It’s totally cool you learned about it from Valve but that doesn’t mean people were oblivious about KDE in the 2000s and 2010s.