I don't see rolling release as a big problem, but then, I have root on ZFS and another Linux install on a separate disk. I can snapshot before any update, and if it blows something up, I can revert.

To my mind it doesn't matter for a corporate context either, because you can test and then deploy.

I used Debian with systemd until I had a boot problem which I couldn't solve without a debugger because it breaks early boot logging. Then I fucked off to Devuan because fuck that.

It's really stupid that you think that's what I said.

It's also really stupid that you think going to the mainstream news will separate you from misinformation.

The best thing that came out of it besides nano-chum was conclusive proof that billionaires aren't any smarter than the rest of us.

You're being dishonest and dismissive about the existence of paid support options for Linux. You know what it's called when you do the very thing you complain about, right?

This is the exact opposite of my experience. Most of my Linux upgrades have completed successfully, while most of my Windows upgrades have failed. They either failed and self-reverted (taking hours to do so) or they acted like they succeeded and then the system didn't work right, and maybe didn't even boot. Most IT departments never, ever do an OS upgrade in place; they do a fresh install, make an image, and deploy it.

Windows persists despite being shit all day because it has operational inertia, and for no other reason.

Provide them training and logistics support, I'd guess. Oh wait, you said to, not for.

Came to say something like this. Perhaps they should have done this study BEFORE claiming they were going to AI all the things.

Intel is failing at GPUs like most of us knew they would. They simply are not competent at... well, frankly anything anymore. Their performance advantage was based on willfully compromising security in ways that they were warned were harmful before they did them, but they deliberately chose to do them anyway; and on superior process technology, and their process technology is no longer superior and hasn't been for a whole bunch of years now; and of course, on anticompetitive actions which have been proven out in court time and again. AMD would have outcompeted Intel a long time ago if not for those deliberately illegal acts alone, let alone all the other bullshit.

Intel is circling the bowl. They're big enough that it might take multiple flushes to make them go down, but they're still a turd.

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You don't even know who he's getting the news from, but you're sure it's not the highest quality. You don't even know what you're attacking to defend your world view, but you're happy to attack it anyway. That's deeply insecure behavior.

If you reliably get good news from a specific source, then you can reasonably trust that source, until such a time as they show themselves to be untrustworthy. This isn't as complicated as you want it to be in your defense of the mainstream news which we can see lies to us constantly.

The funny thing is thinking that the person you're talking to blindly accepts anything they see on social media because you decided that's what they're doing in order to support your argument in the absence of any evidence or facts.

The well-known independent journalists who were providing actual news on Twitter are now providing actual news on Bluesky. They are far more reliable and useful than the major news outlets in the USA, who don't cover stories of actual import and give a corporate spin that defends the actions of oppressors.

Over"site"? That's your problem, you trust news because it is on a site with a three letter TLD, which is fucking stupid. There is no meaningful oversight of mass media, and there never was. Even when we had the "fairness doctrine" it was easily evaded by simply not covering some stories, or having an idiot present the counterargument. The nation's largest news outlet spews lies continually, without pause or remorse. And here you are, simping for that mainstream, in an effort to borrow legitimacy.

We know they do, because they frequently repeat things they heard there as if they were fact. Perhaps they confuse that chemical response with truthiness.

And even more nines' worth of people want nothing to do with Slashdot.

Statistically nobody wants their OS to break, but Windows is fragile AF and breaks all the time. It produces a lot of revenue for a lot of different people in the process. I got a good PC (a dual-core Athlon back when that was still pretty neato) for fifty bucks because it came with Vista and they had problems with it, and were all like fuck this whole PC. Without changing any hardware at all, I put Linux on it, and it was fine. I reinstalled Vista from the restore files on the disk first just to see what that was like, fucking agony. I think the machine had maybe 2GB of RAM.

Anyway, enough about Microsoft's greatest misses, it's been a while now since Windows 7 (IMO their greatest hit) was supported. Whichever enemy of theirs convinced them to do that dumb Windows 8 UI shit is a goddamned superhero, what a masterstroke. And frankly, I can only just barely grit my teeth hard enough to bear Windows 10, I don't even want to think about when they finally "upgrade" me to 11...

By comparison, practically any Linux distribution is a peach. If you want the least drama and also nominally the least bullshit then I suggest you run either Debian or Arch. Either one is fine and has a large community. Just stuff it into the VM of your choice and poke at it, it's not a large time investment.

It was charming before systemd. Now I have to use Devuan to get rid of that. (Once burned, no thanks.) It is not a big delta from Debian, but it's enough that it's a hassle to replicate the effects on your own. Not being on the cutting edge just isn't charming any more, because development of enough of the system is sufficiently active that not being current is a significant detriment.

I had to go scrounging around for firmware for I think literally all of my ethernet devices, except maybe the onboard RTL8125 2.5 GbE, but some is weird and some is old: I also have a dual BCM5709 GbE and a M.2 WiFi-slot MT7925 (160Mhz WiFi 7/BT5.2) and I definitely had to go find some for both of those. Otherwise, no complaints.

I went Nvidia one last time for this PC (5900X/4060Ti 16GB), but the poor quality of their drivers is going to scare me off next time if not addressed. They will weep all the way to the AI-scam bank, I'm sure. I use the runfile for Nvidia drivers, so that they don't cause problems with Debian and therefore Devuan's multiarch setup. Fun fact, you have to both set TMPDIR and specify --tmpdir=/dir if you don't have room to unpack Nvidia drivers in /tmp. Why not just respect TMPDIR?

You ever try doing that with Windows?

In any case they're wrong. Converting Linux between being a server and being a desktop is trivial.

Debian often has unfortunately old packages. I've resorted to removing a lot of software and building it myself. And since Debs can be a bit of a hassle I usually just install to local or opt.

Japan is not even kind to repatriated Japanese, many of whom have left again because of the discrimination they experienced. They're discriminated against abroad for being Japanese, then come home and get discriminated against again for not being sufficiently racially pure.