It’s less about using something proprietary as much as using something so excrementally terrible as Teams.

Possibly. I can’t say I’ve ever tried to add Plasma to vanilla Ubuntu, other than trying out Kubuntu every once in a while when I try to put a new linux user on something, I’ve been off Ubuntu for well over a decade.

IDK what is up with Kubuntu, but it always has show-stopping bugs when I use it. I think it’s the reason everyone thinks Plasma is buggy. Any other distro seems to work fine with Plasma.

I honestly had someone on HN trying to say it could replace ESX now that VMware has gone full retard. Like, wtf

Unfortunately, that’s where I see it heading. And for all the good intentions out there, as soon as the corpos get involved, it goes to shit.

I think we’re a few principled maintainers away from standard enshittification of the Linux Foundation.

And after 30 years, same thing.

Sounds like the Zorin astroturfing is paying back dividends.

Advertising works.

Hey, leave some pussy for the rest of us.

This article is spot on. Fantastic operating system with a clear concept of how it should be done. And great for people that want to fight for it. But everything you want to do that’s slightly off the path is a 3 hour research project in documentation that’s pretty damn poor. It eventually wears you out.

The internet was a great place before the everyone started using it and the corpos got onboard. I think that’s where that attitude comes from.

I have no idea what space Cockpit and VNC occupy together.

I mean there’s Rustdesk, Anydesk, Nomachine, KDE has an RDP and VNC (KRFB) server now…

Fucking Donkey describes recommending Arch to noobs. It’s astounding.

kexec reboot support

Does that mean bootless kernel updates?

If so, between that and declarative configuration, it sounds way better than I envisioned the product was going to be.

We don’t much take kindly to logic in these here parts, stranger.

When Kubuntu craters again (and it will), try the Fedora KDE spin if you want to stick with a KDE desktop.

I’ve never had anything but trouble with Kubuntu and I’ve tried it several times over the last decade. Maybe they’ve got it stabilized, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

It’ll be 11 years soon.

Former IT and current farmer. I just did everything in the terminal.

Closest I’ve come to any of that black magic hotkey fuckery is I’ve learned to hold shift when I drag to get it to snap to my tiling setup in KDE. Oh and Alt-tab for window switching and Meta-Tab for Activities.

I’m pretty much ready for Sway as you can tell.

Why would they not supply some default decorations when none are available?

Jesus, Gnome is such a shitshow.

I just tried that now (didn’t know it was a thing) and it’s not a very satisfactory solution if I’m moving monitors. When I get it to where I want, I can’t just double-click to max it again like I can dragging the title bar. Can’t say I’ll use that.