SavvyWolf

Ubuntu 25.10 entered beta on September 18th. It releases on October 9th. It’s still in beta.

… Yeah? Beta software having bugs isn’t the hottest of takes.

I’m willing to bet that if the GNU coreutils getting bumped a minor version caused widespread issues for a day, nobody would even bother reporting in it…

I like that they’re passionate and supporting Linux and all, but unpaid work like that should be discouraged, imo.

Average xdg noncompliance moment.

Rust and C are the same “tier” of performance, but GNU coreutils has the benefit of several decades of development and optimization that the Rust one needs to catch up with.

This would never happen if it were licensed under GPL. /s

Is the only reason they don’t have AI because they just don’t have the resources to set up and run their own models and bots?

Exfat does not support permissions, so when it gets moved to the drive, that information is lost.

If permission information is important to you and compatibility with non-linux devices isn’t, you can reformat the device as ext4 to support all linux features.

It’s quite technical, but enabling ssh has made it much easier to transfer files over.

If you’re itching to test Orion for Linux, you’ll have to wait. No public builds are available yet, and when testing versions do arrive, they’ll initially be restricted to paid Orion+ and Kagi subscribers.

If reading this has you itching to try it out, you’ll have to wait. No public builds of Orion’s Linux port are available for testing, and when available, the plan is to only give paid Orion+ and Kagi subscribers first dibs – crushing, but there is a reason for it.

Seems they didn’t give it a proofread before publishing. :p

Wasn’t that when Whatwg took over the spec?

So the narrative is that Rust somehow, through being released only through one distro, is going to use that influence to force incompatible changes into other codebases. Despite the fact that any change to shell scripts that isn’t posix compatible brings opinionated people out the woodwork. And then they’re going to pivot to releasing a proprietary version of coreutils that somehow has killer features that the open source version lacks despite coreutils being 30 years old.

Also the guy pushing for it once worked for a government so that means he can’t be trusted ever again.

It’s just a fucking bunch of programs that act as thin wrappers around C functions. There’s nothing novel that needs protecting or is hard to implement.

Is it likely? No. Is it possible? Yes.

If you want to make absolutely sure that Windows can’t spy on anything, you’ll need to physically remove the storage device containing Linux when booting.

A more practical but slightly less secure approach is to enable full disk encryption on Linux. Then, if Windows does decide to get sneaky it’ll only see random data.

This doesn’t prevent hostile code such as ransomware from destroying the data though. For that, you need to have good backup hygene.

A good backup system is to have automatic daily backups to some online cloud storage provider, and weekly or monthly backups to a physical device you keep disconnected and safe.

… Wait, so does the dotfile thing mean the out of the box experience will be degraded? Why doesn’t someone just fork it and set the defaults to match the dotfile? And if it isn’t better, how arrogant do you have to be to think your theme and setup is worth a monthly sub?

Edit: Looking at the actual page, it seems that buying the sub doesn’t give you the same benefits as donating €5 or vice versa. For some reason.

Because people have conversations and then clickbait youtubers overexaggerate it.

Main.

Don’t get me wrong, the whole debate is Microsoft just being performative (why not use your vast wealth to actually help people?). But honestly, putting the debate aside, “main” is just a clearer and more intuitive name.

Realistically, probably not much for people outside of the tech industry. People will use the best tool for the job, and whether it’s foss or not won’t matter.

Mint. It just works and Cinnamon is a good DE (ui design peaked in the Windows XP days). Plus you also get all the software built and tested for Ubuntu without the bullshit of using Ubuntu.

For my server I use NixOS, because having one unified configuration is so nice.

People who have a favourite pencil.