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Not illegal, rather not free. There is an ongoing effort to switch from GPL licencing to more restrictive licensing, allowing corpos to close the source of their distribution. Redhat-IBM is at work. All this camouflaged behind good intentions like rewriting GNU user land and libs in Rust because memory safety.

Time for a new 1.2Gb Java TikTok app

And subscriptions

And forced billing

And ORA notification messages

Thank you for awakening a forgotten trauma.

Then, Nvidia drivers lags behind new releases on this distribution. It’s not helping, I went from tumbleweed to mint because of that 🥲

Yes they were mostly xmr miners, or reverse shell (pretty much like all those windows RAT)

Then Mint is Ubuntu refined for technophobe or people too busy to mess with their OS, plus perfect ability to reuse all Ubuntu targeted software and skills.

I hope it last, web enshitification may bring us back to the 2000s where that one site requires internet explorer, this one won’t allow DRM content on non windows platforms…

It’s just around the corner.

Luckily at work we are allowed to install a dual boot, or even single boot with Linux. The one obligation is to run the corporate antivirus and vpn client (and yes we had malware detections of Linux binaries).

Dual booting for the last 6 months, now 100% on Linux (Mint). Can’t say I miss anything from windows, maybe ms office’s polished apps but I can’t care less. Nowadays everything runs in the browser, it has become « the OS ». And almost every browser is a chromium variant that’s it.

" not much "

That’s 90% true: today AI is writing 90% of all bullshit I read

VPN for streaming on the go ? Too much hassle 😓

Pandora is unavailable in Europe, does anyone knows solid alternatives ?

There was systemd before, now the Wayland train.

Hope BSDs can keep up in the long term with Linux centric OSS evolutions

I use LLM sparsely, but forcing AI in software is a PITA

Yes 😉

<sarcasm> Is your dad actively working against GPL licence too? </sarcasm>

IDK if it’s Mint specific, but cinnamon desktop has a network management app with native support for VPNs

+1 for NetBSD it’s such a great OS for ressource limited platforms. Rough edges by today standards but it worth a try on OP’s PC.

Edit : would you please post something like neofetch screenshot when your eeepc is up and running ? :)

Oh dear, how long before CSS malware?

TL;DR « Microsoft began developing DocumentDB in 2024 as a set of PostgreSQL extensions »

I can’t help but think : what could go wrong ? 🙄

And the LTS after that : Wabbits