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Interest rates. Money isn’t free anymore. It’s still not super expensive but it’s 5x more expensive than what it used to be since 2008.

This kills.

GTX 4090

And then what? They’ll magically stop having to make money for their investors?

Reddit isn’t getting enshittified for shits and giggles. They’re being forced to make money. That requires enshittification.

That’s totally fine. I have no problem with RH going with their own solution. It might prove to be the better one. Personally knowing what I know about both I’m betting on snap to pull off the better result on a technical level. That said the strength of communities has led to adopting different stacks regardless of their technical merits. And that will be fine too. After all Debian and Ubuntu run systemd today don’t they. Maintainers were pretty split on that decision. :D

Oh, I’m also super excited about the snap-based Ubuntu Core Desktop. That project, after the egregious bugs it will come with are ironed out, could be amazing. It could give us a Linux desktop with the robustness of Android.

I don’t miss it that badly. 😅 Unity is written on a properly obsolete stack at this point. It might survive a little while longer but it’s eventually nearing the trash bin like Xorg or PulseAudio. I learned a heuristic a long time ago - the bugs are typically fewest with the default flavour. This actually applies to a lot more than Ubuntu’s flavours. And so with a heavy heart I learned to live with GNOME Shell years ago and parted ways with Unity. 💔

At least life with Ubuntu LTS has never been better! 22.04 is amazing on so many levels…

Yes, using any of the available config mgmt systems like Ansible, SaltStack, etc. This is how we create predictable cloud instances among other use cases. You can describe as little or as much of your system’s config in code and version it as you see fit. As for update rollbacks, that’s typically done at the storage level e.g. by using Btrfs or ZFS.

Using zfs on Linux and it’s absolute boss. I miss Sun Microsystems.

Ubuntu since 2006

• It just works for the simple things
• It is as powerful as needed for the complicated things
• It runs nearly everywhere
• It’s universally supported by anything that supports Linux
• It’s supported at my workplace
• It’s got the largest community and body of documentation available which makes solving problems easy
• It’s got pretty good UX (I miss Unity)
• I like Snap
• It’s got very, very long term security support for free which makes supporting it easy
• I know it very well and can bend it to my will in any way I need
• I’m infinitely grateful to the Debian community for making it possible
• If the BDFL loses his B, there’s an obvious backup plan - migrating to Debian

DOS and Windows up to 2006

I find it very difficult to buy something other than Noctua. 🤷 Hearing how they design, test and what performance targets they strive for, assuming one can afford them, it’s just hard to go elsewhere. And I do have 10yr+ Noctua fans running.

Chrome. The browser is still great and Google’s already in my bedroom. I donate to Mozilla Foundation. I secretly hope that Mozilla takes over a Chromium fork.