How many of these security news stories are largely exaggerated by Redmond and its affiliated outlets?

Corpos doing what corpos do better.

12% to AI

Yikes

We’re living through the Linux’ enshittification era

DEBIAN

Canonical - snaps - systemd - wayland - GNOME - MIT - Rust: the Legion of Doom.

Good for you. In my anedocte, Pavillions were a removed to install Linux.

Linux isn’t inherently secure, it never was, just unpopular. Now that’s changing, *BSD becomes the safe heaven.

Lenovo and Dell laptops are the best for Linux for some time already. Thinkpads get the spotlight but the Latitudes are no hassle too.

LMDE should be the main edition.

Mint and Tuxedo guys, abandon the shitshow called Ubuntu

This many times. The devs go out of their way to curb any attemp of customization outside their “guidelines”.

But people centainly will with the reliance on uutils. And it’ll be too late. How people on Lemmy of all places dont get it?

On systemd, I don’t like it and use another init.

The cynic (ML?) in me says there’s no free lunch under capitalism.

Touché. You win.

I simply cannot see any good coming from Foundations receiving funds from objectively bad Corporations. Hope I’m wrong.

This. Marking becauce I also want to learn about it.

Did you guys have magazines with distro media back then? CentOS, Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, Knoppix, etc.

TLF is about corpos, not Linux.

The reason was pretty well stated already.

If your contribution were MIT licensed, some would rather you hadn’t written a single line of ecosystem destroying code.

Puzzling, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_France