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I loved it, fight me.
And I think they way they integrate the Window Controls and App Menu on the top bar is still the best implementation out there.
Kinda makes me wanna puke how we went from merging stuff together for space saving to Gnome making titlebars thick as all hell even when there’s no buttons on them, and that utterly useless “Application” dropdown on the left side of the topbar 🤢

I fucking know right??? 12 year old, goddamn I was probably eating rocks at 12

Ohhhh right, completely forgot they have support for KVM now. Thanks!

Doesn’t Virtualbox require kernel modules to run? How does that work in a flatpak?

Wait, so they have the GRUB EFI executable on the standard Fat32 partition and then it reads the kernel images from another partition? I didn’t know that was possible

Well, they do have a suggestions section in their forum. Try making a post suggesting this API, who knows, they might implement it!

The last time I got a virus on Windows I was only made aware because the built-in firewall warned me a Powershell script was trying to phone home.
Since then I run SimpleWall and I highly recommend everyone else do the same. It’s annoying at the beginning but annoyance turns into peace of mind when you know nothing, not even built-in Windows processes can phone home without you knowing.

I upgraded from 7 to 10 right around when it released. Microsoft got me with the “Free upgrade offer”.
Problem is, I had a very shitty ADSL connection, so when Windows Update started doing its thing, it would make it almost impossible to do anything else on the web.
There were many times I would turn the computer on to do something, only to be unable to load any webpage because Windows Update was eating all my bandwidth.
And to make things worse, Pausing updates, Active Hours and other controls only came out much later, early Win 10 had none of it. When it wanted to update you had basically no control over it. There were some registry hacks to disable updates, but those didn’t really stick for some reason, so many times I applied one and thought the issue was fixed for good only to come back to my PC days later and face the same issue again.

Eventually I was like “Why the hell do I have to keep fighting my computer?”. You can imagine the shock it was coming from Win 7.
I had tried Linux before all of this (Ubuntu 14.04) and while I did enjoy the experience I didn’t stick with it, but I kept the idea in the back of my mind.
Some time later I setup a dual-boot, and year after year I relied less on Windows (and Linux kept getting better) until Linux became my daily driver. Fast forward to today: Windows isn’t even a dual-boot install anymore, just a VM I barely use :)

It’s the indexers. I’ve had many day 1 releases from them that were perfectly fine.

What to use for Calendar and Contacts management?
Yes I know about Radicale, I’m talking desktop UI wise because fuck doing any substantial event organizing on a phone.

Body text broke when the cross-post happened?

Tech Tangents takes a look at a brand new (cheapo) PC from Fry’s Electronics that shipped with a “Windows clone” Linux distro called “Linspire” (previously called “Lindows”).

Hey, if gets more people using Linux it’s a positive in my books 🤷

So true tho

I’d like to set up a virtual DosBox, accessable by a browser, for my 1000s of dos games.

Maybe something with the new Webtop images from LinuxServerIO? The new Desktop streaming protocol they have is seriously speedy, you can totally game on it!

Grab the DownThemAll extension and go

Getting reinfected after a clean install is so weird, my bet’s on this ⤴️
Double check all your IoT, OP. Maybe your cheap crappy IP camera or Smart Lightbulb turned into a botnet

Who cares.
I’m only on MariaDB because I have brain worms, I have so little data on there SQLite would have been fine. 🪱 🪱 🪱

You know you’re desperate when you bust out that background-color: red

Plasma’s clipboard now lets you mark entries as favorites that will be permanently saved for easy access in the future.

Funny that they did all that push to Manifest v3 because ‘muh security’ yet this bullshit still works.
…almost as if it was never about security at all…huh…