Interesting that they clearly know that doing that would be undesirable to the laptop owner.

Any further “helpful” information in that error message would be a security issue.

I used to say, if you are not a “computer person” at all, just pick Ubuntu. If you are a bit more demanding and don’t mentally freeze up in front of computers, yet still want a fairly normal and hassle-free experience, choose Fedora.

These days, I’m not so sure about Ubuntu anymore. They have been disappointing in the recent past.

Maybe I should give Linux Mint a try one of these days.

I hope you realize how much more expensive USB mass storage devices have become in the last three months.

Add another square at the bottom left of the grid that breaks out of the grid on both directions and contains OpenBSD.

To me, the whole BCacheFS thing feels like ReiserFS all over again. Including the borderline insane, self-proclaimed genius lead developer with an out-of-control ego, the massive over-presentation of how important this filesystem, or even filesystems in general are to Linux as a whole, the complete refusal to work within established structures, both in terms of process and in terms architectural structures in the software or to even have a mature discussion about how these ought to be like, and even the ludicrous claims about how Linux will be hopelessly outcompeted if it doesn’t put his genius front-and-center before anything else.

At least Overstreet has not murdered anybody.

There’s also the whole selective perception about software stability. You cannot claim at one point that your fs is completely ready for production use, everyone saying otherwise is a hater, and marking the thing as experimental in the config is basically slander against your person, and then shortly later demand that Linux merge some particularly complex and hard to review several-thousand lines patch in a minor bugfix release because your users could experience horrible data loss otherwise. Those are two things that cannot be true at the same time.

Note, filesystems really are hugely important to an OS like Linux. Even so, both Reiser and Overstreet managed to overstate that to an outright comical degree.

I will never vote for SPD again. Bunch of rotten traitors.

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Have you tried to actually use GNU/Hurd?

So I guess I’m both “Chad” and “Schizo” at the same time.

And also “Cool And Good” on the side. (I run Fedora on a few machines. It’s a relatively hassle-free no-nonsense distro that usually works for what i need.)

Bring back kdm!

Spoken like someone who never accidentally typed something into the wrong terminal or accidentally used the wrong keyboard.

Funny thing about that one, gnuplot is not under GPL and has nothing to do with GNU.

The password for the hard drive encryption and the system login are two separate things, so, yes, this combination is easily possible. You’ll have to input a password for system bootup, but not for logging in.

How advisable that combination is is another question entirely.

And who is running that supposed “sovereign Euro cloud”? Please tell me it’s not T-Systems…

I don’t even know which Linux specific fork you are referring to, it could be either a git fork or fork(2).

It’s a joint venture (between Thales, Airbus and Leonardo), not a merger.

The linked to article (at this time) uses the phrasing “team up” instead of merger in its headline.

Well, in PHP you cannot #define new words from some new language to mean basic language keywords.

The original is a lot lamer than I thought it would be…

It lags for me whenever I access some filesystem that takes a while to respond. That could be a faulty or old device, or it could be an NFS share with multiple large file transfers going on in the background.

And when I say it lags, I don’t mean it just takes a while to show me a directory’s content, I mean the entire UI freezes and kwin will grey out the window because tha application isn’t responding any more.

This does not happen a lot, and if your file browsing is largely limited to a fast local storage, like a SATA SSD or even an NVMe, you may well never see this problem at all. But it does happen.