I’m surprised that other people are surprised that for-profit companies constantly try to increase their profits; such companies only contribute to FOSS when that’s more profitable than the alternative. The Linux kernel, AMDGPU, Steam, etc only exist because some part of the software/hardware stack is proprietary (which becomes a more attractive product as the FOSS portion of the stack improves).

I’m definitely not justifying the “rug-pulling”, but people need to stop supporting projects with no potential for long-term profitability unless those projects can survive without any support from for-profit companies. Anything else is destined to fail.

I’d love yearly Debian releases instead of just every 2 years.

Thank you for interjecting.

In exchange, FF uses Google search by default. So they’re also getting direct value from the deal.

Customers have more power than companies would like you to believe. Politely explain the situation to customer support, and ask for a refund. If they refuse, mention that you purchased a game that was promised to work for at least several months, and you haven’t received the product you paid for. Because of that, you’re considering charging back through your bank. If that doesn’t work, say you’ll charge back if they don’t refund. If that doesn’t work, actually charge back through your bank. Banks are surprisingly cool about it as long as you don’t do it too often. Of course, you need to buy the game directly (no account balance) from a credit card.

Just don’t be a jerk to the support person, because it’s almost certainly not their fault. It’s also less likely to get you what you want. They’d rather give you what you want so you go away, and you just need to give them reasons that they can relay to their supervisor if necessary.

Does anyone else prefer no MOTD? You can SSH into your server without clobbering your scroll back buffer. It makes everything feel more seamless.

Stop pinging yourself, stop pinging yourself!

Just connecting to the internet on various networks can be confusing. And they’re going to need to periodically upgrade system packages, or they’ll be vulnerable to various exploits. Even if you set up auto-upgrades, occasionally some things will need manual intervention.

Assuming this story is true, Linux is going to be a nightmare for that woman. It’s come a long way, but it’s still not as dead simple as it needs to be for non-technical elderly people.

A robe and wizard hat.

Hi Richard!

Always put your filesystems in an LVM volume (and in general, partition disks with LVM rather than partition tables)! You never know when you might need to combine multiple disks, make a snapshot, add redundancy, or transfer to another disk without unmounting. But it’s very difficult to format a block device as LVM once you can’t erase its contents.

Make your /boot partition at least 500MiB.

Leave at least 1GiB of free space at the beginning of every disk. You never know when you might need to add EFI and boot partitions to that disk. And again, it’s very difficult to do after the fact.

So we either have the choice of accepting proprietary drivers or just not using the functionality of GPUs.

Thats just life.

If you’re willing to accept that, then why are you so critical of Linus? The fact that you can build a fully free version of Linux seems like the best of both worlds. From your perspective: get market share now by allowing non-free components, and then eventually transition them out while maintaining compatibility with the majority of the ecosystem.

Probably after he gave up on his own kernel (Hurd) being a viable competitor.

xbps felt like a million characters to type which I hated

OpenSSL is such a pain in that regard. Want the info of a TLS certificate? openssl x509 -text -noout -in /path/to/file.pem. Single character flags? What are those?

Seeing Ubuntu now is like seeing your (previously) favourite musician, sold out and washed up.

Or: meta packages! (Debian nomenclature, but it probably exists on non-Debian distros as well)

Much more secure than executing random code online, usually with root privileges. And reuses the existing infrastructure of the “parent” distro.

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I think the minimal/net-installer can still fit on a CD. But then you need an internet connection.

MacOS in the streets, Debian in the sheets.