Ah, yes, Ventoy, my favorite “open source” program. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795

I have a few programs that will reach out to the internet when the user explicitly checks for updates. Feel free to rip apart my amateur projects: https://github.com/Jestzer

Yup. Programmers who have only ever been programmers tend to act like god’s gift to this world.

Out of genuine curiosity, what is it missing? I have to use macOS on my Apple Silicon computers, so I haven’t tried out Asahi.

I use Pop!_OS on 2 machines daily with KDE Plasma and am happy with it. I use KDE Plasma because COSMIC is too GNOME-y for me. The only thing I liked better in COSMIC was the fractional scaling- that was way better than the options I have in KDE.

I agree that Linux Mint is closer to what the vocal Linux desktop community would like to see, but Ubuntu is anything but abandoned. Where I work, both my coworkers (excluding myself) and customers are either using RHEL or Ubuntu. That’s it. Sure, everyone on Lemmy and Reddit swears against Ubuntu and has no need for plain-RHEL, but a lot more of the non-vocal Linux community is using Ubuntu. I prefer Pop!_OS, but that’s besides the point.

Source: Ubuntu is anywhere between 4th and 6th place on these charts:

https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?resource=popularity

I would hate snaps a lot less if Ubuntu just stopped trying to force me to use them.

Have you met Windows admins? 😛

In fairness, I’ve seen some Linux admins become completely hopeless as soon as any GUI appears.

… I am, though.

I guess it depends on habits, then. I use them all the time. Not as much as folders, but enough that I would rather the 2 have the same behavior.

People will be damned if…

1. They are forced to do something for an additional 10 seconds.
2. Their opinion is wrong.

Which is just another, less convenient way of turning a single click into two, no?

I would think so too, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if there was a catch.

You’re right, but is it easy to convert a VM to a physical machine? I’ve never tried, so I’m genuinely asking.

If you’re interested in making a full jump to Linux at some point, then you’d probably be interested in dual-booting instead of using VM for Windows or Linux.

This is why I never bothered formally learning anything computer-related in school.

For end users, it seems like everybody is mostly content with all the options available except Snap.

Every other admin I work with uses vi. Not my personal choice, but it seems like lots of people are content still using it.

They know you use Arch, they’re joking. The joke is that Arch users tell people they’re using it without anybody asking, hence, the phrase, “I use Arch, btw.”

I think the point that is being made is that it’s sad that always-online situations are so common nowadays.