Yeah, alright, I see how that could be useful for someone who isn’t me. I don’t have much that’s important on my computer, and for what little there is I just have a second ssd I drag and drop it onto. That one has Mint installed on it in case I do something stupid to my main drive, because I routinely do stupid things to my main drive.
The point isn’t just pragmatism. The point is that you’re running closed source software either way. Even ideologically, running out of date closed source software because it’s built into the chip isn’t actually any better than running a current version of the same software from a drive. Maybe that distinction made sense in the 90s when mircocode updates weren’t a thing most people dealt with, although honestly even back then it was a little weird. Now it’s complete garbage. The FSF is an important organization, which makes it all the more important to call them out when they’re wasting time and money on stupid nonsense.
Ubuntu ain’t what it used to be. If you want a simple distro nowadays just go straight to the source with Debian. There’s no real benefit to going with Ubuntu anymore, and community distros are just a safer bet. Corporate distros aren’t your friend.
`zsh`, `ksh`, `bash`, and obviously `sh` (startrek.website)
cross-posted from: startrek.website/post/5735388...
What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?
You know, ZFS, ButterFS (btrfs…its actually “better” right?), and I’m sure more....
Screw init wars, real OGs discriminate based on DE (lemmy.ml)
I use plasma, BTW
Bell curve of Linux distributions (lemmy.world)
I use Windows btw