Good riddance--let snap get out of the way so Linux developers can focus on--

Wait, isn't this about the multi-distro package manager?

Not at all saying that TikTok doesn't do this--of course it does. But don't forget that Meta is paying a Republican PR firm millions of dollars to seed and promote these stories to distract from the fact that Facebook and Instagram are engaged in the same practices and far worse.

To be clear, the things that are keeping you from self-hosting your own blog are:

• It's probably against your ISP's terms of service
• Spam detectors tend to assume professional content (e.g. email) coming from residential IPs is botnet activity (tbf, they're usually right)
• Self-hosting without geographically distributed mirrors, load balancing and auto-scaling (in other words, cloud services) is https://www.jeffgeerling.com/b...>just asking to be DDoS'd (or Slashdotted)

Any "Web5" solution needs an answer to the fundamental economics of how content can be creator-controlled, free from censorship *and* resilient to attacks. Our current web hosting ecosystem is good for the first and third, which is what most people think they care about (until they fall victim to the second). BitTorrent covered the second and third, at least for a while, but it was too reliant on traditional web technologies and didn't really work for anything real-time (CAP theorem is gonna getcha). Has Dorsey's team found the magic solution? Let's just say I'm not reaching for my checkbook.

As someone who parented a kid through the Pandemic, I have to disagree. You can pick up skills through YouTube alone, from game design and modding to through-hole soldering to how to make the perfect mashed potatoes, that would have required paid classes or expensive (and already-outdated) textbooks two decades ago.

Yes, this did come at a cost--nothing short of the collapse of democracy and possibly society as a whole--but you really can't claim that an internet where you can, with a few gestures, pull up a video that will show you how to replace a flat tire, while you're stranded on the side of the road (and also suggest to you three local tow services and five mechanics), is less useful than the days when you had to interrupt scrolling through Lycos search results so that your mom could make a phone call.

Which they actually sell without a trace of irony.

The crazy thing is how similar in magnitude the jump is when upgrading from a SATA3 SSD to a Gen 3+ NVME drive

The problem is a complete lack of middle ground. The updates list and exactly what will change defends itself against being read by its sheer length. *No one* actually reads it unless they have a medical condition and no medications to manage them making the Linux update process one of "push button and hope for the best" not unlike any other OS. I have a short list of five or so packages I've had issues with in the past--not issues like, "Updates and the system fails to POST" but more like, "MSPT doubled in Minecraft after updating to openjdk-17 build 12," so it's really not hard to skim the list of what's getting sudo apt upgraded. But more importantly, when something goes wrong, I love that I can just jump right into /var/log/apt/history.log and figure out what changed that needs to be rolled back.

No argument--first thing I do on an Ubuntu install is sudo apt remove --purge snapd, but I also recognize that I had snaps alongside flats on my main rig for almost two years with the only big issue being that it was hard to migrate config files from the snaps to another machine that was using flats exclusively.

BT's been fine for me--audio and game controllers--since 20.04. It definitely varies a lot based on the chip, but I've been able to look up the controllers that came integrated in my last two motherboards and cross-check docs from Intel about the state of Linux support.

The other thing that's tripped me up in the past is actually pretty embarrassing--had issues with really poor range and connection drops that were solved by... actually plugging in the included antennae.

While I think the listicle made a good point about not tying yourself to someone's grad school thesis, there's a huge difference between bespoke "I made my own GNU/Linux from scratch" and "I lead a team who's put together a collection of GNOME apps into a clean and distinctive desktop environment." I stan elementaryOS but describe my OS "an Ubuntu variant" on support forums, because unless it needs a snap, anything that works for Ubuntu 20.04 will work for elementaryOS 6.1.

And if the elementaryOS distro or Pantheon DE doesn't survive the next few years, I'll mourn their loss, then migrate to Budgie or Solus, with an easier transition than when I had to update my mac from OSX to macOS 11.

Gonna ignore the username and take your post at face value rather than a troll.

Having used Linux personally and macOS professionally for the last decade, I can tell you which one is far more likely to push out software updates that brick your setup, and it ain't the one with the penguin logo.

Flatpaks, Appimages and, yes, even Snaps, have made config issues like you're mentioning virtually impossible and have finally vanquished "dependency hell."

Software--and hardware--largely just works out of the box now--I still can't get used to the fact that the open source driver for my current generation graphics card was included with the kernel and supports ray tracing through Vulkan with no futzing whatsoever. Meanwhile my mac technically doesn't even support OpenGL (Apple really wants you using their special snowflake Metal API).

And now let's talk updates: every Linux distro I've ever used always tells you what updates are available and, if you're interested, exactly what will change. You then have the choice to freeze any packages you want to hold onto. There's none of that "You need to buy a new machine if you want to upgrade to the latest OS" or interrupting your work to self-install "critical security fixes."

In sum: I'm not sure what distro you tried or when, but what you're describing does not match any Linux experience I've ever had, and certainly none that I've had in the last five years.

Man, weird that I had to dig through a bunch of layers before finding that the snipe tweet was from @foone. https://mobile.twitter.com/Foo... (This is the guy that got Doom to run on a pregnancy test)

Bam. Random files deleted from your appropriately sandboxed and isolated test machine... after the dependency has been scanned for obviously malicious or known nefarious code. Is this going to catch the truly novel and creative hacks? No. But most of these upstream dependency attacks (that we hear about at least) are stupidly obvious and even brazen about what they're doing.

Operating on a system of least trust, where, at a minimum, your dependencies are all explicitly pinned, and, more realistically, where any bit of critical kit gets its dependencies from an internally managed mirror--with new versions being screened as they're published--this should be standard operating procedure. And saying this is a flaw in the Open Source ecosystem is FUD--the difference is that when closed source software injects malware into their latest update, you don't find out as quickly (or at all).

I have a 3400G and agree it's a great all-arounder. And I'm really excited for the next-gen Ryzen RDNA2 APUs. But if you can get me Zen 3/RDNA2 performance at ARM TDPs, I would be on it in a heartbeat.

Too bad the chipmaker is Apple, who have zero interest in making the chips available for purchase and much less in releasing drivers for them for other operating systems.