Element uses the Matrix open standard which supports bridges. I don’t know if the WhatsApp bridge uses the web interface or API for the PC desktop app, but that one is working for quite some time already.

For people not wanting to configure it all from scratch there are already pre-build complete packages bundling up all your usual messengers in one location/app like Beeper.

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Kind of… the regular driver officially supports everything from Maxwell to the newest cards.

But then there is the new open source driver now, supporting Turing and above. Which is recommended to try by Nvidia developers, but also still has issues (like power management problems on Turing for example).

Also CUDA-specific stuff still pulls the proprietary driver as a requirement anyway.

As someone with an ancient 750ti happily running on the regular nvidia drivers…

Dedicated support for “older cards” as in “requiring different drivers” usually starts much later (Kepler and before), so about 4 generations before an 1660Super.

Yes, preventing the boot process when something tempers with the files is the whole point of secure boot.

And beside the backups you should always have (remember: no backup, no pity for you…) the keys to sign your EFI files with are on the encrypted disk so the running system can get updated. So deactivating secure boot again, unlocking your encrypted disk from some live boot stick and fixing it is always an option (as is having a live system at hand signed by the same keys if you want to…).

That article triggered an unexpected roller coaster of “there is something called vimdiff I never heard about?” to “no, there isn’t because for me vim is just an alias for nvim” to “oh, it’s actually just vim -d anyway…”

You are just moving things. When you change your EFI partition from being unencrypted and asking for your password to the BIOS asking for your password (or other credentials) you just shift the attack surface.

Somewhere there has to be an unencrypted part to start with.

Lock your unencrypted ESP down with secure boot and your own keys (shitty as it is that is in fact the one conceptional usecase of secure boot, not that stupid marketing bullshit MS is doing with getting vendors to pre-install Microsoft keys) to prevent tampering and you are good to go.

Arch comes without socks by default. It’s up to you which ones you install buy.

manjaro 2.0

Was that insult intentional and if yes then what did they do to deserve it?

Why do you think the most unanimously hated windows versions

I know that people hated every single one since Windows 98SE… it’s basically a constant cycle of releasing shit, then keeping it relevant -mostly via forcing people to buy it with their PC- long enough that people resignate and believe tech has to be that bad, then forcing the next and even worse version on people. So which were those unanimously hated versions. Or -maybe easier- which version was widelys adopted before people had no choice because all support for older ones was cut?

People are used to Microsoft Office, Acrobat Reader, Outlook, the Creative Cloud, etc.

And that is some kind of law of nature? Or the result of paying massive amounts of money to flood everything with this shit for free? Seriously… I think you competely misjudge the majority of users. They are not so much clinging to the familiar as just lazily sticking to whatever pops up when they press the power button.

Why do you think chromebooks sell so well?

They do? I have seen one chromebook in real life. Which I would probably not have noticed between all the other laptops and tablets if it wasn’t for the fact that this was the most overpriced piece of shit constantly having issues with even the most basic stuff.

(Edit/PS: I just did a quick search and most numbers I found point to chromebooks being more rare than Linux. Which is an achievement given that barely any piece of basic consumer laptop/tablet/whatever comes pre-installed with Linux.)

But I know the sales internationally were declining for quite some time until they spend a lot of money to bribe governments to hand them out as the tech version of a gateway drug.

So for example at the moment increases in chromebook sales in the last years are mainly caused by government procurements in Asia. Japan alone saw sales increase by a factor of 20 in 2024… so I really, really doubt anyone actually wanted a chromebook. But this will probably change after the next generation of students conditioned to think that this shit is how it’s supposed to be enters the market. *sigh*

1. “They use Windows because they are used to Windows” is not an argument but a cop out.

2. “They know Windows better because they use Windows” is not an argument because… guess what… people can learn. That’s how they got their (probably very basic) knowledge of Windows in the first place.

3. Paid and externally supported Linux/Foss exists. Choosing Windows instead because that’s somehow magically the only one with support available is just a recursion to #1.

If you want to talk facts however, start with money spend on lobbying, on pushing it on education early, on forcing people to buy their hardware with Windows pre-installed etc…

The ‘random numbers’ I mostly generate are UUIDs…

which can indeed be done nicely in the terminal by just reading directly from the kernel’s rng at /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid

Ubuntu:

It has strong security, automatic updates, and great hardware support.

As basically all distros (or in the case of auto updates: all DEs) have.

Mint:

It’s stable, lightweight

As every Linux is compared to Windows.

Zorin OS:

supports many Windows applications through Wine

Is there a reasonable distro that doesn’t?

Pop!_OS:

it has built-in NVIDIA and AMD driver support

So again like basically all distros that don’t go out of their way to only use free-software… for NVIDIA that is, AMD drivers are part of the kernel anyway.

Debian:

supports several desktop environments like GNOME, KDE, and Xfce

Same, same… again.

Seriously… How many sloppy “Which distro is for you?” articles do we need to finally get a single one competently describing differences and not trying to pin general Linux features to specific distros? 🥱

So Manjaro…

Middle and High school kids are flashing ROMs on their phone by themselves these days

No.

Some do. They other 98% are absolutely clueless and wouldn’t even know that there are alternatives to the stock OS. In fact they wouldn’t even know what an OS is or that “Android” isn’t a device brand.

cares about anything other than students committing violence

Many are just like bad police. They care about showing off how well they work by catching someone. Doesn’t matter that there wasn’t a problem in the first place or that there are actual real problems that could use the ressources. As long as they can catch and punish someone (for purely imaginary stuff even…) to pretend how well they are doing their job they are happy.

but generally people just don’t install Windows, it’s already there

In my opinion that’s the main point.

People love to discuss how Linux isn’t fit to replace Windows (yet) or how it needs to be more user friendly or how it needs to work better out-of-the box.

Yet in reality 90% of the users couldn’t install and properly set up either OS from scratch. But with Windows they simply don’t have to as it’s already pre-installed and set up. And so they somehow fool themselves into thinking one just runs automatically while the other needs additional work…

Yes, they often do… implicitly.

Every time someone pretends that it’s a Linux problem that he had to look up and install a certain driver because it “wouldn’t work properly out-of-the-box” he is basically lying because guess what… Windows doesn’t work properly without the right (externally downloaded) driver, too. Or it required you to install the newest DirectX version for decades before you could even start any game… Yet somehow I never read complains about Windows being unfinished and needing to improve because you could not start gaming out-of-the-box.

Don’t Look Up was a documentary…

Actually for many people rolling release is a cure for that issue because it’s the extensive version upgrades (that also like to fail) which often gets people to the point of reinstalling then trying another distro while being at it.

There’s a RAT in Arch Linux (because someone made one downloadable in the Arch User Repository) is about the same level of non-sense as telling the story of how Windows ships with hundreds of viruses because those can indeed be freely downloaded as .exe-files from the Internet which you can access via Windows. 🤣

Now that I think about it… It’s even worse. You cannot actually get an AUR package without explicitly installing the tools to get them (and most likely reading the disclaimers and warnings for using the AUR on the way), while you can can in fact download and execute malicious content with the pre-installed Windows tools.