But you haven’t clicked yes on any of the offers yet…
Let’s set up your subscription to your own hardware! Continue / remind me later?
Would you like to back up your folders to OneDrive?
It would be a shame if something were to happen to your files!
Without windows and macos, we would all be divided on what is the better distro, but thanks to shitty corpo trash, we can unite to hate them together. Fuck windows!
Ubuntu could have taken windows spot
They are nowhere near close to windows
Amazon based search results integrated in the Unity dash beg to differ. Canonical has a history of being shitty.
There was backlash, they removed it and never tried anything similar since. But I’m with you on that, the idea was insane and if they pull anything like that again, I’ll be switching away from ubuntu immediatly.
There were a few good lenses for Unity, like the porn one.
Well. in the modern day, there’s Ubuntu 22.04 and up with their insistence on snaps for many otherwise native apps. For example, Firefox as a snap and taking anywhere from 30 seconds to up to 2 minutes to launch when you first open it.
I used Ubuntu for years, pretty much from 16.04 all the way up to 22.04 but that was a line for me and I ditched it for Manjaro. The experience has been much better overall.
Snaps should be for applications that may not receive updates on current systems or have a hard dependency on old libraries for some reason. Things like Spek come to mind. To use if for something like Firefox, and not only use it, but insist on it to the point you can’t install the native version without ridiculous workarounds… it’s absurd. And on top of this, it’s especially dumb because flatpak already existed prior to snap, but as usual Canonical had to be special instead of working with community standards.
But that delay in opening is only for the very first time after installation, it does not affect any subsequent app starts, even after you reboot. In real world performance, snaps are basically just as fast as any normal app in my experience. And you need to keep in mind what the idea behind ubuntu is - they want it to be useful to experienced users as well as newbies and tech-illiterates. Snap automatic updates are honestly really nice if you don’t want to think about updates and canonical have done a lot of work to make the experience as smooth as possible, and the sandbox is a nice bit of added security. They are very versatile too, allowing any type of software to be a snap, from little terminal tools to full-featured nextcloud instances
That delay happens on first launch every boot. Also the automatic updates happening basically whenever is nonsense. It should tell me an update is needed, not just kick it off whenever it feels like. That kind of crap is why I use Linux and not Windows, and now why I don’t use Ubuntu.
Not OP, but… the reason why I won’t use Ubuntu is that whole snap thing. I’m not hating on snaps in general (although I prefer flatpak), but I hate what Ubuntu does with them. You apt install firefox and yet it still ignores your command and do whatever it feels like doing. Why? Why not leave both options available while maybe prefering snaps for inexperienced users (I mean like gui store default to snap)? This is just one thing now, but what might be next? This smells whole lot like Microsoft approach (light version). And I don’t like this direction.
You WILL set up Cortana or you WILL be put through the Setup Wizard
My wife started joking about " if I update it at this point it’s gonna brick it" and I laughed so hard because she’s not even an IT person
Due to all the registry and group policy changes I’ve made to decrapify Windows, I’m legitimately worried that every major update will brick my install. Luckily so far they’ve only make it worse in the ways that Microsoft intended.
“New device detected: mouse. Please wait…”
But the mouse is already working dude.
At least it doesn’t make us restart afterwards anymore.
“Mouse movement detected, please restart for changes to take effect.”
Anyone remember the early Windows 10 update that booted back up with a black screen that said “Don’t Panic”?
That was the most panic inducing moment I’ve ever had with any PC.
I remember reading a post from some person who struggled with hallucinations and was absolutely creeped out when that large, semi-ominous text appeared on their laptop screen out of nowhere lol. Then again, this was on r*ddit, 97% chance they were making it up for upvotes.
I’m (well, I like to think I’m) a very stable person, and it freaked me right out.
Boss/teacher: Is your project ready to present yet?
Linux user, still tweaking colors and theme options in their DE after 4 years: Let me finish setting up my device!
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I wonder what I’ve said no to more all-time - Microsoft’s spy- and bloatware or the YouTube tv free trial.
Winrar licensing
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Heard you loud and clear. Maybe Later it is then.
“Let’s check this one off the list.” Bitch I only installed you to play The Void. One more peep out of you and you’re derezzed.
The Void
Why though? That looks like an XP era game. Does it not work with proton?
Ran into a game breakinf bug on linux. Maybe they patched it by now, but I doubt it.
Significant Bugs: game craches when i try to enter to second sister chamber
Well stop trying to enter your sister’s chamber.
No
But what if she’s stuck somewhere?
And your parents remarried…
Yeah but have you had these new ads for 4 years?
Jesus, I don’t miss that shit. Now, it has to be something way the hell out in left field to not be picked up and installed silently. linux-firmware ftw
they were the worst updates because it guaranteed it was installing some bullshit you didnt want
Candy Crush, Ticktok, Clipcamp, bing AI and what ever else suites there fancy
Windoof on my computer got an update last week. I wonder when it’s done. /j
(But seriously, it took almost the whole evening.)
I wouldn’t know
