They were set on doing it when Knox was first introduced anyway.

Normies don’t give a shit anyway as they see it as a necessary step in securing their own lack of understanding of anything technology, besides brainrot and doomscrolling.

Thanks for the reminder of why I stopped caring about Samsung phones 10 years ago.

I’ve only once had a broken firmware update in years and it was an easy fix.

I’m not sure how people can recommend other distributions when they all have issues of one sort or another and you just have to do the bare minimum sometimes to fix them.

Judging from how hasty you are to dismiss a distribution based on a singular event, I would say it will be hard to find other distributions that can be what you wish them to be.

Not gate keeping here, but even in Windows/Mac there are issues which require some research to fix, sometimes even harder than linux ones.

Try explaining this to my idiot employer. They recently deployed Teamviewer to all company computers.

Gtk on Gnome vs Qt on Kde. I tried bottles. it’s fine. I can live without it given we now have a decent Lutris and Heroic

Almost anyone can have children, but not everyone can be a parent.

That does make sense for such use cases, however I feel that archinstall script is also mature enough, allowing you to have config files even. Even w/o them it still has very powerful defaults. I will def give nixos a try in a VM first, as I mostly rely on flatpak and landlock anyways.

TBH I would switch to Nix, from my current long standing arch, but it wouldn’t make any difference to me ultimately. Cool concept though, but I don’t really care much about these immutable distros.

no one likes a smart guy. you can keep your dot files /s

Or any compact pc like gigabyte brix, nucs, lenovos , etc. you can get those for 70-200 on ebay and they are amazing for running any homelab projects, including stream services like jellyfin with hardware decoding.

don’t get me wrong. it’s definitely on my top 2 , however getting timely android updates is nice and the improvements are nice to have. You don’t really need them and given current ai centered updates, I can’t say they are that meaningful anymore, however pixels have android 15 and will be getting 16 soon, with that whole DeX thingy, while fairphone is releasing statement about how they will skip 14, so their flagship is still on 13… Not great.

I was/am definitely considering fairphone as a full european alternative, however it seems they are also plagued by support issues and delays and pixels are still the best way to go, unfortunately.

Wish I could do that when my school computers had Dos and Turbo Pascal. Ah, the good old himem.sys times. Miles better than W11.

redhat 5.5

Wifi? imagine trying to get pci modems working and basically compiling your kernel each time you’d need an obscure driver. usb didn’t even exist and external ones were both expensive af and running on serial ports.

good times honestly. I learned so much about linux.

there’s Zen also. that also has normie defaults, however the drastically changed UI/Uxmight not be for everyone.

i’ve been on linux on and off since 1998, however I fully switched about 5 years ago and never looked back.

I was curious around 3 months ago, between distro swapping and I installed W11. It lasted 2h until I rage installed linux and took me an entire day to wash the windows taste off. bleah…

Le chat almost made it.

A red ball balancing on a white ball with a blue ball balancing on top

added!

I have fully switched my arch to flatpak only( for user installs obviously). There are still some apps missing features like anything requiring secure credential storage (i.e tutanota) , but for the most part using flatpaks has been an amazing experience, if you can live with the increased required storage needs.

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