I’ve got Ubuntu on my 2015 MacBook that worked out of the box except dedicated/integrated graphics switcher and the webcam. I also installed Windows which Apple puts out official drivers for. It’s just a computer, you can plug in a USB drive and install other operating systems just the same as any other laptop.

It still runs decently, I often forget it’s a 10 year old machine. I boot Ubuntu on it for work though, and boot Windows on it for the occasional game. It’s a useful machine.

This is hilarious, thanks for sharing!

I remember trying to do this when this first became law. Bell told me no anyways.

Windows Update is 100% malware by definition. Remember when Windows 7 had a free upgrade to Windows 10? It would force itself into the update queue with regular updates regardless of the user’s permission, and even after x days after the user explicitly said they didn’t want Windows 10. I worked in a computer repair shop in that time. The Windows 10 upgrade that people didn’t want or agree to often failed, breaking the machine. Sometimes we could recover the installation. Sometimes the OS had to be reinstalled. It was intentionally pushing software in deceiving ways to unconsenting users that broke their machine.

Yeah, I looked up the French solar roadways after seeing this to see the headline of ‘total disaster’. So as expected.

Ones that haven’t been mentioned yet is Clarkson’s Farm and the Grand Tour.

Is printing cumbersome and difficult on Linux? Yes, it can be. Is it better than Windows? Also yes.

This is what I was going to recommend. Worse case scenario the internet gets shut off and he has to email somebody and say he won’t do it again. Most likely that nobody will notice or care.

Ah, I must’ve clicked on a premium theme on the way in.

It’s modern alright, complete with an “AI tools sidebar” and a “please login” popup that takes up half the screen.

That’s high. I didn’t know they went that far up.

Have you gone 13.6 km up there to verify it’s not there?

I was in for computer science major but took lots of other electives. The only course I needed Windows for was Windows App Programming. The rest I was fine with on Linux.

… I kinda want to sit outside and read now. How many hours left in the work day?

Last time I booted up Win 10 to game I got a full screen ad for Windows 11. When hitting the button to exit, the button disappeared and the whole machine froze and eventually crashed. (Although that crash might have been somewhat hardware related)

Piper is a GUI wrapper for libratbag which supports a bunch of gaming mice that is great for customizing button mapping. It doesn’t do per-app basis but once you map the mouse buttons to regular keys/commands you could use another application to do the mapping per application.

But who uses that? I recall using a gnome plugin a few years ago that required an Open weather API key that you could use any location for.