I dislike Ubuntu, because it literally never successfully upgraded from one release to the next.
It’s also the buggiest distro I’ve experienced, and I’ve tried quite a few. I’m talking about bugs like:
or:
Stuff like this disqualifies a distro for years in my opinion.
It’s actually touchpad-and-keyboard-friendly. IMO the perfect UI for a laptop, especially with a small screen.
If you use a 27" monitor and a mouse, it makes absolutely no sense. Use KDE für that.
root beer has absolutely nothing to do with beer though, apart from the name.
A firewall by default blocks everything coming from outside going in (without being requested).
Firewalls can also block traffic going out from your PC to the internet. In a company where you need to protect against data exfiltration by employees, and as a last resort safeguard against malware communicating with outside servers, you want that. In that case, a security expert makes a detailed plan of all installed software, to determine what needs to connect from which internal IP to which external IP over which port. Then all other outbound traffic is blocked. This needs to be adjusted constantly, every time a new software is installed or an update changes a software’s requirements. It’s a full-time job.
On a home PC running Linux, that’s absolute overkill. There are no untrusted users in your home and you’re probably not the target for a directed attack by skilled actors. So just leave ufw on default, which blocks all inbound traffic and allows all outbound.
Or rather to find out if you can.
I can run a mod of doom with photorealistic graphics, all I need is a shotgun and a chainsaw.
Arch is the most stable OS (as in, doesn’t break) in my experience, as long as you maintain it.
I update about once every 2 months.
So I basically put everything related to updates from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance into my script.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
systemctl --failed -q
yay -Pw
sudo reflector --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist -c de -p "https" --ipv6 --completion-percent 100 -l 10 --sort age
yay -Syu
pacman -Qqnte > ~/.local/share/applications/pkglist.txt
pacman -Qqdtt > ~/.local/share/applications/optdeplist.txt
pacman -Qqem > ~/.local/share/applications/foreignpkglist.txt
yay -Sc > /dev/null
pacman -Qtd
pacman -Qm
sudo find /etc -name *.pac*
They didn’t send it just to you. They sent it to millions. If even one person happened to order something internationally and be stupid, it’s already worth it.
No, you just have to talk to the people who are fluent in rust.
In a few years, they’ll adjust the laws, so that would count as assault on a police officer.
Saddam Hussein, according to Human Rights Watch, is responsible for the deaths of 250000 people.
As a dead dictator, he is not the best, nor even a good choice, for rendering graphical applications on a computer screen.
But all things considered, he’s still better than X11.
I don’t know if that makes you feel better, but for my 40th birthday I invited 20 people, prepared accordingly, and 3 showed up.
Not even my wife was there, cause she ate too much of the dough for the weed brownies she had made for the occasion.
She crashed half an hour before the guests showed up.
We sat around the table, emptied a couple bags of chips, I was the only one who drank beer. My friends left after 2 hours.
Relative to what? Wall Street?
When you do a dist-upgrade on anything but the stable main repos, you’re on your own.
8.10 was the last good Ubuntu. (It also had the best default wallpaper ever)
If you look at the “improvements” in every release since, you’ll notice that shit like they do currently isn’t an accident:
9.04 integrated web services into the main user interface.
9.10 integrated Ubuntu One (Ubuntu’s OneDrive, upgradable for money) by default and introduced the slooooow Ubuntu Software Center
10.04 integrated an interface to post on social media
10.10 added app purchases in the Software Center
11.04 made Unity the default
11.10 removed Gnome as fallback to Unity
12.04 introduced the buggy HUD
12.10 added the famous Amazon ad lense to it by default
and it goes on like this…
Literally the comment they replied to.