This is incorrect.
I tested some distributions by myself:
Ubuntu 22.04 - compiled as module
Ubuntu 24.04 - compiled as module
Ubuntu 26.04 - compiled as module
Debian 12 - compiled as module
Debian 13 - compiled as module
Ubuntu even provided updated kmod package, which blacklists algif_aead module as interim fix. No kernel fix yet.
I highly doubt that any embedded distro wants to build in rarely used things.
This is incorrect.
Many Linux distributions mentioned here are providing algif_aead as module, not built in.
Tested following distributions, all of them have them as modules:
Ubuntu 22.04 - module
Ubuntu 24.04 - module
Debian 12 - module
Debian 13 - module
Ubuntu even provided updated kmod package which disabled that module as interim fix.
I highly doubt that any embedded distro wants to compile in rarely used things.
Yes, this is exactly what I mean.
Most games rated Borked or Silver on this list is because anticheat is not working, and thus preventing full game unplayable, or preventing multiplayer.
PUGB, Apex Legends, Delta Force, Rust as examples.
If you look up single-player games without anticheat, most of them (about 90-95% from my experience) will work well, at least with AMD GPU.
I think the problem is that "the majority" is mostly older games that fewer people care about.
One popular example is Fortnite, but there are many other recent games that don't work well or at all on Linux. The closer to release date, the worse it tends to be too. Don't expect to be playing the latest AAA game on launch day.
This is not exactly correct.
Most of brand new games work perfectly from the beginning. But, the problem is anticheat, which usually does not work, even if such anticheat is supported under Linux.
Few examples:
Resident Evil Requiem - works flawlessly
Monster Hunter Stories - works flawlessly
Diablo IV - works flawlessly
1348 Ex Voto - works flawlessly
Marathon - does not work, BattlEye issue
Yes, it is in normal Release Notes. First entry.
Not quite
will they back port drivers / kernel drivers?
For some degree. There is HWE stacks, which provide newer kernel/drivers for older LTS releases.
It only matters how long you can use your phone. If Apple does not put as big battery as competition, and loses in battery life because of that, is is not Apple who is winning.
P.S. Does GNOME 40 let you have a "minimize" button on your windows now?
It is in Gnome Advanced Configuration app (gnome-tweaks), which probably is not installed by default.
Can you please list all of those bazillion forks? Because I only know two: Mate and Cinnamon.
And that is not so many after all.
I would like to have an example of case where the debugging is harder in this kind of normal case?
For the some cases I have had, it actually felt easier to debug. Journalctl -b0 shows all entries after last boot, and changing number (-b-1) will show earlier boot. This way it was really easy to compare working boot with non-working one.
systemctl status {servicename} will show status of the service and gives instructions to check logs in case there is problem (even giving exact command line how to see the desired log).
Quite a lot of people are telling that debugging is harder, but from my experience, for average guy, systemd is easier to debug than traditional init.
I haven't seen any missing logs in either with any other init or with systemd. But actually, if there is missing logs on traditional init system, you would not even know it because there is no any kind of checks for log file integrity on. On systemd journal, you would know if the logs are corrupt or something is amiss, but at the end you probably could not do anything for it anyway so it is kind of moot point.
For more advanced user (if that user knows shell scripting) it is of course possible to read the traditional shell scripts and try to debug it that way, but for normal user it does not matter.
Lets for a moment ignore the fact that speed is not THE cause of most road fatalities (that honor falls to drunk driving, exhaustion, and distracted driving in about that order).>
According to this (https://www.strongtieinsurance.com/common-reasons-road-accidents/) it is number second. If is still quite a lot.
It is still on discussions. There is EU wide proposal to get rid of time changes. Every country have option to select either time to stay on.
https://www.timeanddate.com/ne...
Here in Finland, it has not been yet decided which time is the one we stay on.
In Finland, we had poll about whether to stay on DST or winter time. Result was 52% in winter time and 48% in DST. Of course because this was a public poll results are only giving a direction, but it is nowhere near 99% vs 1%.
I myself really do not care. If we all go to DST, then slowly and gradually our wake-up hours will shift little bit later and later, until we see that when previously we were living in (for example) 7-22 wake-up hours, then after years of permanent DST wake-up hours shift for 8-23.
It really would not matter. People to tend to go to sleep too late anyway, and wake up with too little sleep.
It is more so that those older operating systems does not implement WPA2 correctly (eg. they do not support retransmission). Newer OSes (and ones which implement standard more tightly) are more vulnerable.
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