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I’ve just tried it, and although the idea is interesting it doesn’t seem to be working as intended.

I’m pretty sure all of these are FOSS, and thy were tagged as proprietary:

• AnkiDroid
• Moonlight
• KDE Connect
• KeePassDX
• Lichess
• MPV

And these are also FOSS but were flagged as ‘Unknown’:

• MGit
• NetworkTools
• Simple Audio Converter
• Termux
• Yet Another Call Blocker

And there are others I’m not entirely sure if theyre FOSS or hybrid, that were also flagged as proprietary.

Also not a fan of needing to subscribe to give feedback (like pointing out FOSS alternatives or false positives).

SteamOS uses an immutable filesystem, and Valve curates the snapshots of the packages before pushing them to the end user. That pretty much removes the entire issue we’re talking about, and is completely different than running rolling release distros.

If you update once or twice a week, chances are there are literally hundreds of packages to upgrade every time. There’s no chance someone will look into every single one of these packages to verify what could potentially ‘break’ their system or not. They just upgrade the whole thing and THEN, if something breaks, they work around it.

As someone who uses CachyOS daily as my main distro, I wouldn’t install it on a device for someone that doesn’t want to do some maintenance from time to time. Maybe I wouldn’t go as far to say that it is UNSTABLE, but point release distros such as Mint or Debian are definitely more stable and require much less maintenance. Rolling release distros are, naturally, much riskier.

I love how even modern Linux distros run so damn well on what’s considered today ‘outdated’ hardware.

I love Linux Mint btw! I think you did a great choice! Even though it’s known as the beginner friendly distro, I think it’s just a damn great distro for pretty much anyone, experienced or newbies. Fantastic choice!

I was partially kidding. I mean, sure, if that’s what they want, then what could anyone do about it.

But since they came from Windows, wouldn’t they adapt to something like Linux Mint Xfce or Q4OS (that mimics Windows XP)? These are very lightweight distros.

It smells a lot like a honeypot to me. It doesn’t seem to have any proof that taking the exam actually converts to any benefit for real people, AND they collect TONS of data from people taking this exam.

Their privacy terms indicates they don’t directly sell your data to 3rd parties. But they say that, if another company eventually acquires them, they inherit all the data and can basically update the privacy terms how they see fit and do whatever they want with it. They also admit to share your data to a lot of other companies and services in order to be able to do their ‘job’ whatever it might actually be, which in simple terms probably mean they share your data to commercial partners so these partners can do whatever they want with it.

So, even if they really don’t (directly) sell your data, God knows what they and their partners will use it for.

It seems very clear to me, though, that they will collect all your data and will not give you anything in return but false hopes.

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It doesn’t surprise me. After all it’s the default way to start using WSL.

But for people running full distros, it seems to me most are avoiding Ubuntu these days except if they are required to use it by their employer or something. In DistroWatch it seems Ubuntu’s popularity is slowly sinking.

Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping!

Yaaaayyyy!!! Nice one!! Congrats on pulling that off!

So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex

Sorry, you what???

Just disabled it with Shizuku + Canta. Hopefully it’s enough.

If I had to guess, most of these ‘books’ are some kink bullshit. Ever since I looked for the rankings in the Kindle section, it was flooded by books with men or women stripping on the cover and some random erotic titles. Among them some rare exceptions (and most of these were some cheap self-help stuff).

That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised this is what’s being actually affected. I can’t see the actual data or content of the article though, because it requires me to subscribe and I definitely won’t.

Exactly what I wonder. I have a list of 110 (and growing) books I want to read, all of them written by human beings, and I discover something new all the time. There’s no way I will buy a random book on Amazon, be it from AI or by some author I’ve never heard anything about.

I really like Foliate. Great interface, easy to use, enough customization. It’s available through Flatpak.

If you want something more feature rich and don’t care too much about UI, then Calibre.

I particularly couldn’t care less about Game Pass at this point. I’m just fine without paying Microsoft for anything. But I suppose that’s good for those who still use Windows just for that.

At least I find it interesting to have Linux supporting software that it wasn’t technically suppose to.