For most it absolutely is viable.

Linux is great for the average person, great for experts.

It’s the “pro-sumer” people that struggle most often. They’re the ones who know windows pretty well, know what apps they want to install, and have became used to the quirks of windows. They struggle to adapt.

Most people use their laptops for web browsing, YouTube, Spotify, and basic document editing. They’d be fine with Linux. They just don’t use it because laptops are sold with Windows.

You’re so strong. Thank you for your valiant effort.

Love this.

The more I’m hearing about the Pebble Time 2, the more I’m liking it and looking forward to my delivery.

But fuck the 30 day warranty. Stuff sold in the UK is usually 6 years of cover (albeit only 5 for Scotland). 30 days is actually pathetic.

Zorin is FOSS.

The fact that there’s a pro version where you can pay for support does not break the GPL licence.

FOSS does not mean everything must be free of charge. It just means the user can access the source code and modify/share it if they wish.

What a bizarre qualifier.

You may as well complain about a kitchen by saying “but can it roast my turkey without using that oven?”

Of course it needs some form of translation layer or emulator in order to run programs from other OSes.

So it doesn’t then. Cool.

It’s based on Ubuntu LTS, that’s true. But Ubuntu backports device drivers to older (LTS) kernel versions, so the performance/hardware support is often similar/the same as using a newer kernel.

I believe they call this backporting of device drivers the “hardware enablement stack”, but I may be misremembering.

PopOS uses this, but Mint I believe is a strange one. You can get a variant of Mint that enables the hardware enablement stack, but I don’t think it’s a feature of standard Mint.

Contrary to what many people thing, Gnome is extremely modular and customisable. It’s just not really exposed in the base Desktop Environment itself.

You can do literally anything with the extension system. It’s very powerful.

That does however mean that you can easily break things, which is why by default Gnome marks extensions as unsupported when a new Gnome versions come out, until the maintainer adds a text string inside the extension that flags their extension as being validated for the new version.

You can disable the version checks, of course, and just risk it. But usually I find you don’t need to. By the time a new release comes out, the Gnome beta has been available for over a month, and the extensions have already been updated in advance.

In the UK it’s illegal to claim roadkill if you’re the one who struck the animal.

If you weren’t, it’s free game (unintentional pun, nice)

At first that didn’t make sense to me, but I now realise it’s to prevent someone purposely striking an animal just to take it.

You definitely get more in the US, but Europe isn’t free from ads.

Windows still shoves OneDrive, office, and other things in your face in Europe. They still have featured news stories and the like. They still have recommendations in the start menu and such.

These are all ads, though we’ve been conditioned into thinking MS plastering OneDrive and OneDrive recommendations all over their OS isn’t advertising. It very much is.

If you have an Android TV in Europe, 1/3 of the home screen by default is an ad banner, just like in the US. Etc.

We are not free from ads. We just have it slightly better than the US.

There’s nothing wrong with giving money to FOSS projects.

In fact, a major issue with the open source world is users never donating.

I’ve never used Zorin and don’t intend to, but the existence of optional paid software isn’t why.

Because they’re a lot less capable than these companies are telling us they are.

Don’t get me wrong, you can frequently get some excellent results with them… but you can also get some really shit ones.

So not only does the bulk of this work require someone to do all the prompts, they also need to thoroughly check the work afterwards, meaning you’re not really gaining much, if anything at all.

Sooner or later, the venture capital propping up AI will realise that these enormous savings from laying people off en-masse isn’t going to materialise, and they’ll want their money back. The market correction will be huge.

Aw someone’s a wittle bit cwanky 🥺

Do you think everyone other than you is lying? And that all the articles about issues in Windows are false?

Let me get this straight - people buy a product advertised as having a feature, containing a part also advertised as having that feature, and then they disable it after purchase?

How is that legal?

He’s usually right.

*On software. For the love of god don’t follow his ideas on consent, child sex, or bestiality.

Nope. Google didn’t get anywhere with ChromeOS and it’s unlikely they’ll get anywhere with this.

I’m surprised anybody thought it could be.

Guys, it is literally just a small form factor PC (with a couple of console QoL additions like waking from controller support and HDMI CEC). It’s an open platform.

If Valve sold it at a loss, offices and governments would buy them up and reimage them with Windows.

Sony and MS can only get away with making a loss because the closed platform guarantees they make money back on game sales.

Part of the reason the PS3 got more locked down after release is that governments, researchers, and companies openly talked about buying them and running custom software on it, because the hardware was so subsidised.

That said, this is a low end device for 2026, make no mistakes of that. If Valve want to, they can sell this for $500. Perhaps even lower if they’re fine with razor thin margins.

Remember that this thing’s price needs to be justifiable not only now, but also in 2 years or so when vastly more powerful consoles come out.

Because when humans see a robot with boobs, the comments turn into “hey this robot has tits”, and when they don’t, the comments turn into “humanity is going to be euthanised by the machines”.

Reading this seems… fair? And there’s evidence to back him up it seems?