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_cmmn··on Ask HN: Is Telegram better than WhatsApp?
Small correction.

With Telegram your data ends up in Germany.

They are Berlin based and against the current Russian government AFAIK.

_cmmn··on Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence
I'm an happy GNOME3/Wayland user, with a few extensions GNOME3 is very good.
_cmmn··on Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop]

- HEADLINE: Join Wayland

- DESCRIPTION: Instead of reinventing the wheel with Unity8/Mir, please join Wayland development and maybe join forces with Linux Mint and switch from Unity to Cinnamon or MATE, with Flatpak supports for desktop apps.

_cmmn··on Windows 10 Cloud’s UWP Walled Garden Bypassed, Allowing Win32 Apps To Run
Wait, so you are telling me a not-even-in-beta software is not secure?

That's a very important news!

_cmmn··on BSDploy – FreeBSD jail provisioning
It was said already in the past, and I agree.

Naming.

Too many letters in a *BSD, too scary. Linux is more toy-ish and thus more appealing as a name.

Plus the UCL vs BSD legal war, which shifted much of the community towards Linux.

_cmmn··on Git-scm.com status report
Just a note:

> The deployed site is hosted on Heroku. It's part of GitHub's meta-account, and they pay the bills.

So why aren't they just using a GitHub page for this?

_cmmn··on KDE Slimbook
Because it's a Spanish company.
_cmmn··on 20 years as a Debian maintainer
Wheezy was my last one as well.

I fully migrated my personal laptop to FreeBSD (as TrueOS) a few weeks ago, after using it as my second OS at home.

And because I need Linux for work, I migrated to Devuan on my workstation, as I need to use Ansible and Docker in a stable way as part of my DevOps job.

_cmmn··on Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development
What would you suggest then?

In my experience, only Thinkpads and Latitudes have provided me satisfying user experiences.

Except XPS 13 and Macbook Pros, which I tried and I don't like the feeling.

_cmmn··on Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development
I bought a T420s a few months ago.

I am selling my much newer MacBook Pro retina now, as the Thinkpad is so much more functional, the keyboard is amazing the feeling of the machine itself is fantastic.

I am thinking to buy a X260 brand new because I need a newer CPU and better battery life, but for sure I'll only buy Thinkpads or Latitudes (I have one at work, amazing machine) from now on.

_cmmn··on Portainer, a UI for Docker
Why should I use this instead of Kubernetes?
_cmmn··on Carrie Fisher has died
Watched two days ago. Lovely, I really liked it.
_cmmn··on Carrie Fisher has died
She is one with the Force, the Force is with her.

source: the comments in that thread.

_cmmn··on Ubuntu still isn't free software
I'm in Europe and even some non-tech know what a Linux Mint is. And a lot of newbies I help to install Linux on their laptops explicitly ask for it as well. Many are lost with Ubuntu/Unity interface and are much more happy with Cinnamon on Mint.
_cmmn··on Ubuntu still isn't free software
Mint is already killing them on the desktop, how long before a "Mint server" arrives?

And yes, Debian for servers, but some people wants more up to date software.

_cmmn··on Windows 10 in-place upgrades are a severe security risk
Nope, Gnome Software can upgrade systems now.
_cmmn··on Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
Also, a few years ago Xamarin actually ported Android (then 2.2. IIRC) to Mono/C#, as a test for Java->C# converters, and the result was faster than Android/Java.
_cmmn··on Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
Nice.

Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.

_cmmn··on Why Twitter Must Be Saved
Twitter will be absorbed by a big one (possibly Google), so no need for this kind of posts.

And if it dies, let it be. Another one will come up.

_cmmn··on Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook for a Surface
Agree... No love for EU users :/