He even hints to it being the case for any LTS distribution. This could be problematic for companies that might want to use LTS for their machines.

Btw I use KDE on Debian Stable

Agree! I was disappointed when I switched my work laptop from a Windows laptop to a Mac. Nice hardware, nice battery life, nice integration with my iCloud/phone. Some things you have to get used to. Others are, in my mind, idiotic stuff (I’m looking at you, Task Switcher, third party mouse support, and keyboard troubles when remoting to Windows servers, weird keyboard shortcuts, just to name a few).

Overall it’s better than Windows but it just have some other quirks that I never thought would be a problem/challenge. I’ve gotten used to most and found solutions others most, but still got the biggest issue with the keyboard on remote servers.

Respawns as a container

I remember a magazine from before I moved from my parents house, with years of the Linux desktop - this would precisely be start 2000s.

Maybe, if the EU keeps it’s current will to change from American (or other non-EU) vendors to local, then Linux is the preferred choice. It’s already happening for public offices a lot of places. Hopefully this will spread the word and more people will adapt it for private computers. However, I want to see it happen before I believe it.

I use Vivaldi because I’m also synchronising with Linux. Had it just been a Mac, I would been perfectly fine with Safari. I think Safari is the best browser on iOS, using Wipr with it. Safari is just so polished and it has just the features I and less cluttered than all the other browsers and everything is silky smooth and load times are super fast.

That’s what people keep saying (and yes, only in the EU are alternative browser engines allowed), however other browsers on iOS can create a decent browser experience. A few things that aren’t supported on FF iOS, that IMO should have been available a long time ago and stops me from using FF anywhere as I want syn mobile with my desktop browser:

• Rearrange icons (web site shortcuts) on the FF Start Page. Also, not synced
• Very limited custom search engine settings (no search suggestions supported, very few search engines to choose from)
• No auto close old inactive tabs

FF on iOS has not been given a lot of attention for a long time. Apparently this has changed, however I’m yet to see that and the issues I have with FF on iOS keeps me away. Some people try to defend Mozilla and blame Apple - and of cause there is some blame there - but other iOS browsers, including Safari, does a much better job. I’m on Vivaldi for that reason, with the latest version 8 have fixed the few annoying issues I had with it.

You and me both about Ladybird… it was such a blow even I read about the lead.

After I stopped distro hopping, because I have tried them all, I started PSU hopping - this would save me so much time!

I’m sure Debian would implode if any big corp started to make “hostile” changes to it. It was by some considered controversial to include non free firmware by default - that should tell you a little about how much people care about Debian, as including the non free by default is against the core of opensource.

Debians biggest issue. Is the default 0 non free firmware and software. This means some drivers etc are not going to install automatically.

I think Debian 12 changed this and now include non free (firmware?) as default. That’s when I installed it with no issues.

That is true. When people have saved them to their Microsoft account, then Microsoft has access to them.

It took me a while before making the jump with the home laptop. I had tried several times since 2004 but always had some issues with WiFi or graphics. With Debian 12 I heard good stuff so when Debian 13 was released I installed it and no issues whatsoever.

But I will say some of the forums I visited back in the days where not as friendly as now. RTFM was a common thing you got thorn in the face when you had issues - and the manual did not always work.

No worries - we do have some weirdo’s here

When I tried to figure out who the “Dane” is, and so far it seems you mean Erich von Däniken, whom is not Danish but Swiss.

The law says that the laptop needs to support USB-C charging, not that it can’t have other means. Like MacBooks that has the MagSafe charger - they can also use USB-C to charge.