Used to use TeamViewer as I supported it for a company and was familiar with it but I got tired of the 2 hour session limit. Found Rustdesk through some Google searching and now I run my own install of it. Absolutely love it for my use case and I’m glad they’re able to keep putting out updates!
It’s good history, I don’t think it really has any bearing today though.
Novell purchased SuSE Linux AG. Novell signed the agreements, and they were very controversial at the time. Novell was much more involved in the day to day than IBM is at Red Hat, SUSE was not an independent business they were a big part of Novell (the SuSE founder left at one point because of how they ran things, he did eventually return). Novell was later purchased by Attachmate, which made SUSE an independent business unit, both were acquired by Micro Focus. It was sold to EQT Partners in 2018 and operates as an independent business today.
Novell and today’s company are not the same, they’ve gone through significant changes multiple times, which is maybe a better reason to at least put in some thought.
Ubuntu asking its flavors to stop using something because it doesn’t is a head scratcher. Flavors regularly use things Ubuntu doesn’t, things you could argue are more intrinsic to an “Ubuntu experience”, like installers, login managers, icon themes etc. Why single out Flatpak?
IMO Canonical wants to make snap like google play, where people sell stuff and they take a 20-30 percent commission
The most popular non-Canonical derivatives, Linux Mint and POP OS, have both totally rejected and vocally criticize Canonical’s bullshit, Snap or otherwise. This isn’t going to make the fall in line, this is going to make them finally get serious about ditching Ununtu and switching directly to the upstream Debian base.
Yup. S76 drew a pretty clear line in the sand when they went all in on Flatpak. I’m glad some derivatives have the backbone to not back Canonical’s decision making.
I have an issue that clipboard content is application dependent.
So many times, I will open a program to find some text, Ctrl+C to add it to the clipboard, close that program because I’m done with it, switch to the second program, push Ctrl+V, nothing happens because closing the first program cleared the clipboard’s content when closed.
Is this inherent to Linux, or could using something other than KDE fix it?
Personally, I don’t mind this sort of telemetry so long as they’re open about it - which looks to be the plan, at least for the moment.
IMO the FOSS/Linux space has an odd relationship with telemetry that I think should change. I’d like to point out the gnome-info-collect debacle:
GNOME users: "GNOME devs don’t understand what we want!"
GNOME devs: “Hey, we want to get some data on how people use GNOME. If you’d like to help, install and run this one-off tool. Source code is here, and we collect XYZ metrics (all anonymized, of course.)”
(Some) GNOME users: screeching incoherently about data harvesting and telemetry
Thanks for this! Also have been unhappy with the Linux music player selections – at the moment I’m using the Foobar2000 snap, but I hate snap and don’t want it on my system. Trying this later today.
I’ve always stuck to Thinkpads for Linux – especially the T series is incredibly solid. That said, you really shouldn’t have an issue with a 2015 MacBook.
Ubuntu is the stepping stone from Mac/Windows to Linux. Like the tutorial level. It’s also one of the most “corporate” Linux OS vendors outside of RedHat. Of course it’s shitty lol.
At this point, I’d like to see better regulation about usage of user data for training before this gets approached by the FOSS community. Ideally we should see a regulatory bloodbath where AI training data is concerned (using other people’s data or creation without explicit consent, and ultimately regurgitating that data, as LLMs do).
*I don’t think we’ll ever see sufficient regulation at all – but we should. Use of data in the way needed and quantities needed clearly call for it, in my view
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