Linux is Linux. What sets distros apart are basically the config and pre-install defaults and the package manager…

The latter is Portage, developed for Gentoo and used (among others) by ChromeOS.

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The problem is that the people lacking those technical skills are struggling with Windows, too, but got brain-washed into believing that this is how it’s supposed to be. And they are somehow also the ones defending Windows bullshit the loudest because else they would need to acknowledge being wrong.

You forgot the one that is still compiling…

What do you mean by poor long term stability? It’s a rolling release. I run the same installation for basically forever, while fixed releases’ life-time is measured in just a few years before you lose support and need to do a full distro upgrade… which rarely seems to work without problems.

PS: I just looked it up. The first date in my pacman log in from 2014…

File permissions…

allowed to execute=1, allowed to write=2, allowed to read=4

grouped by owner/group/everyone.

So one of your own files you have full access to while users in your usergroup are only allowed to read it and nobody else has any permissions would have: 740 (read+write+execute / read / none).

As much as I despise Windows while also using archlinux/i3-wm as my daily driver…

Tiling is no rocket science. Basically every stacking window manager including Windows can do it well enough to be usable with just a few properly configured defaults and short-keys.

For the majority there is sadly a very simple answer…

Reason #1 to be at risked of being impacted by that malware? You don’t care and won’t read a technical article either.

But why is this thing wasting so much electricity on my side with black text on bright white background?

That’s not wrong but a seperate problem mainly caused by lock-in strategies that are not exactly the same as marketshare or industry standards and are explicitly distinct from the actual OS’s capabilties.

I know enough people who have the exact same problem but with Apple as their employer forces them to use software only available there. Yet their marketshare for desktops is just a tiny fraction of what we see for Windows (~15% if we are optimsitic).

So will we pretend that Linux with a 10 or 15% marketshare (not that far off for an OS with already 5+%) is suddenly a valid alternative. Or are we honest and acknowledge that this is indeed NOT about Linux’ capability to be a valid Windows replacement but purely about the fact that there isn’t (an never will be…) a massive corporation spending billions in marketing and lobbying to create perceived standards simply by throwing money at the problem for even higher future gains?

But what will I do if marketshare of Linux does not increase properly? Oh, wait… who cares? I just use Linux for my daily work but are not a shareholder that needs constant massive growth of imaginary numbers.

And adhering to the law would kill my thriving “pay me a dollar and I allow you to club a billionaire to death”-business. So what?

Requirements: hardware (optional)

Nazis are only pro-power. Everything else is just a means to an end.

They don’t actually care who they are advocating against. There is only one constant: They are the ones at the top, destined to rule, and the masses need to be controlled by pitting them against some “enemy”. That enemy is always replaceable because it needs to be replaced every time they accidently “solve” a problem or need a change of narrative.

Did an AI write these bullshit ramblings just parroting PR fluff texts provided by those distros?

In simplified terms:

You are allowed to modify stuff but it is not actually changing the install as is.

This is achieved by different techniques like file system overlays, containerisation, btrfs snapshots and so on.

The idea is to replicate the classical behavior you know from embedded devices that have their core functionality in ROM with even firmware updates only overlayed or modern smartphones: You can modify your system but in the end there’s always the possibilty to “reset to factory settings” as in: the last known working configuration.

You are obviously not doing enough work with a full screen terminal being open… 😜

Compatibilty of Windows games in Linux have gone a long way, partly but also independently from Steam’s work on it.

In fact Linux nowadays supports more Windows games than Windows, as especially older games still work there but not on modern Windows anymore.

I will not pretend that there aren’t games with issues, but in the vast majority of cases that’s new games and for the simple reason that some publishers actively go out their way to prevent them from working on Linux (highlights being anti-cheat tech that Linux worked hard to make it compatible, yet with certain publishers intentionally not setting a simple flag needed to run, often with totally made-up “reasons” about Linux’ insecurity…).

Apparently this is about neither DRM

It’s not about the DRM people think about… but the Direct Rendering Manager

Wouldn’t it be great if just one company per 10 articles about European companies “looking for alternatives” was actually ditching US services for European alternatives?

UEFI standard requires support for FAT and then can implement other file systems for the EFI System Partition.

But no vendor actually implements any with the exception of those forced to include APFS by Apple. So FAT is the de facto standard for all ESPs for years.