There's no easy answer, the Linux Desktop world is more fractured today than ever. I use and like Ubuntu, Debian 11 has had driver issues for me. I don't like RPM distros. For Ubuntu, I had to uninstall snapd and pin it to never be installed. For Firefox, I downloaded it, unpacked it and use its Help menu to update it. I don't use Chromium because Ubuntu only ships it as a snap now, I use Chrome.
I do the same, pin snap. For Firefox I just download it, it lets me update it from its Help menu then offers to restart itself. I don't use Chromium, use Chrome. It does seem like Canonical is trying to push away all but corporate users, perhaps even all Desktop users.
> Canonical seems to be trying to push users off of Ubuntu.
I'm on Ubuntu for now because Snaps can be disabled but it does make me wonder since they also dumped Unity Desktop a few years back. It almost seems like they don't care about Linux Desktop users any more.
My wife likes seaweed. I texted her the same text you used. She got the message no issues on her phone. SMS is not a guaranteed delivery service. Perhaps the message simply didn't go through? I see later in the comments you paraphrase something you said you were told by a T-Mobile representative. Perhaps the representative didn't even know if something was blocked but felt they were on the defensive?
I used Teams on Linux recently in Chrome since Microsoft doesn't seem to offer a native client download any more and it ran fine, audio and video. I didn't notice any sluggishness.
The last one was at work with RHEL 10 years ago, it has been long enough I should consider trying an RPM distribution again. Debian based distributions as far as the package repository hasn't give me issues but maybe RPM issues have been sorted out, good point.
I tried I guess it was SuSE back in the mid-2000's. It was good for an RPM distribution. I'm not an RPM fan though. I've seen the RPM repo corrupt itself on SuSE, Red Hat before the split they did when they created RHEL and later at work on RHEL (one place I worked where they used RHEL). Tried Ubuntu 2006 at home and have used it since then. Run KDE desktop on it.
The Firefox thing was a simple fix since I also don't use snap, I just downloaded the Firefox tar file and run it. Using Help About, it updates itself, fast and efficiently. No snaps needed. No Ubuntu repository needed.
I got coinbase phishing spam emails recently, I wonder if it's related somehow to them apparently being investigated.
Also can't read the article, have to set up a free account. Their password field doesn't let Chrome suggest a strong password, it doesn't even let me create with with a $ sign.
I just checked, Windows 10 in a VM (running on KVM on Linux), refuses to upgrade to Windows 11. I only keep it around in case a contract requires something regarding Windows. 10 goes out of support next year, I will delete the VM. I can reject any clients that would need me to touch windows.
There are some great web extensions for a lot of things. I don't use any of them because most of them require permissions to read data across all sites, which makes sense for them to work; but I'm not using any of them.
I can't think of a single incident where GCP actually dropped a free tier; I actually see new free tier stuff added since the last time I looked. If you can provide some excellent links to reflect your view, that I've somehow missed along the lines; it would be interesting to compare.
Until then, I maintain the Docker publicity is undeserved and if I had to guess, was brought on by podman astroturfers who have been polluting the web the past 2 years claiming how great podman is.
> Especially with the current way Docker Inc. is managed.
I was reviewing GCP's Free Tier today, they have the same approach, if they need to change or drop services they agree to give 30 days notice, same as Docker did. It's probably common for other cloud companies offering free stuff as well. All the negative attention Docker received was fully and wholly undeserved.
k3s is lightweight and even I have clusters running, I can sync them too if I wish, easily, I agree, it seems odd they didn't go with some kube design on prem.
I'm a long time Ubuntu user but, if Microsoft went Linux, and it wasn't an anti-VM (explained: try to upgrade Win 10 in a VM to see what I'm talking about), Ad infested, user tracking machine then I might have to get back in bed with Microsoft.
They used was several times, past tense, indicating they potentially do have a degree now; if not, their prose sounded snobbish to me either way, hence my comment.
> These usually are the worst "programmers", in my experience. And I was one as I didn't go to CS school and was mostly self-taught. Lacking the basics of CS, you are just a code monkey.
That's the type of condescending, discriminatory bias that having a degree affords, I guess.
Three decades of programming in various languages and at various companies and today's discussion is the first time (after all those years writing SQL used by those applications) that I've seen the term "relational algebra". My queries run great in production at various companies right now, including many I guarantee are widely recognizable.
People who excel at theory usually don't do well in most programming positions. Perfectly normalized schemas do not hold up well in an operations heavy environment.
Agree, I've programmed in various languages at various companies for three decades, do not have a degree and yet every point you made is 100% accurate and precise.
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