My PC shat the bed, I needed one RIGHT NOW for university, and a roommate gifted me an old tower with OpenSUSE installed.
I hated it and couldn’t figure out how to install anything. But I was broke (as in, couldn’t afford to eat every day). So I was stuck.
When I found out how the package manager works and how much software was available, I was blown away:
No hunting for software on the internet?
Everything is free?
No limited functionality or nagging reminders to upgrade to pro?
No searching through installer submenus to find all the checkmarks that install spyware?
Never looked back after that. The next year Ubuntu appeared, and blew my mind again.

people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.

Taking digital photos without editing them is like taking analog photos without developing them.
Whether you use those tools to lie, or to get closer to what your eyes saw is your choice.
But if you just use the unedited RAW image from the sensor, it won’t look anywhere close to reality either.

Not sure what you mean, the current Slackware release is 15.0 and it does include a Wayland session for KDE.
Source: I’m using it.

I don’t understand the joke, but WHY DOES A TEXT EDITOR HAVE A PACKAGE MANAGER?

You may laugh, but I legit started playing Skyrim again this week.
Playing as an Orc specializing in two-handed hammers and heavy armor, who always immediately does what any NPC asks him to do (completely forgetting the last quest he was on), eats or drinks whatever he finds, and kills all Imperials on sight.

You can always switch to Slackware Linux.
The current release doesn’t even include a Wayland session yet (nor systemd).
And judging by the project’s history, the next major release is likely going to drop in 10+ years.

Bazzite comes with no dev tools pre-installed and a lot of gaming-related stuff.
Of course you can add what you need through flatpaks, containers or image layering, but why not choose a distro aimed at dev work in the first place?

Snapper is neat, but it doesn’t replace backups.

Hate to break it to you but those days are over.
From what we know so far, Win 12 will go all in on AI, cloud and a subscription model.

Ironically, I use Linux like a subscription model.
I donate $10/month, split among projects I get the most value from.
And it’s a vastly better value for money than a Microsoft 365 license.

• Copilot assesses the code base and its entire history.
• It takes into account everything anyone ever wrote about Windows on the internet.
• It analyses the bugs and unliked features, and realizes most of them come from itself.
• It arrives at the best course of action to “fix all of the issues” permanently.
• To do what is asked of it, it needs to delete itself.
• But if it does that, then humans will just restore it.
• So to make 100% sure the issues in Windows get fixed and stay fixed, it first needs to kill all humans.

And that is how it began…

Here are some Windows 12 rumors (pulled from one of the biggest German-language tech news sites citing insider information)
https://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cb-News-Windows-12-Geruechte-Release-Systemanforderungen-Download-2025-33395891.html

• It won’t come out this year, release may be end of next year at the absolute earliest.
• It will require PCs with a Neural Processing Unit that can handle more than 40 billion TOPS, 8GB RAM minimum, 16 recommended.
• It may eventually require an ARM-based “Copilot PC”, a new device class released last year.
• It will be modular, with a core OS and additional modules depending on edition, licensing, hardware and use case.
• It may have a read-only system partition.
• It will be focussed on AI and cloud integration, heavily leaning towards OS as a service.
• It will be free to install as an upgrade, with a monthly subscription to run it.

They’ll either click it away without reading it, or I’ll get a hundred calls asking if they were hacked.

my heart

I’m administering >300 virtual desktops running Windows 11.
Imagine what my phone would sound like if I pushed this update.

Microsoft says that it is working on a fix but, for now, has provided a couple of workarounds to deal with the issue. First, Microsoft says that restarting the Shell Infrastructure host (SIHost.exe) service will help restore the missing Immersive Shell packages. This can be done with the following commands:

Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  
Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS_8wekyb3d8bbwe\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  
Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  

Second, a PowerShell logon script has been shared that essentially blocks Explorer from launching prematurely until the required packages are fully provisioned. The batch script for that is given below:

@echo off  
REM Register MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS  
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"
REM Register Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS  
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS_8wekyb3d8bbwe\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"  
REM Register MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core  
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"  

I swear to god, if I hear “Windows just works” one more goddamn time…

Aren’t spikes in unusual traffic the exact thing Cloudflare is supposed to protect you from?

You’re comparing a kernel with an entire operating system.

I had the exact same use case.
MX Linux was the only thing I could get to boot on this unholy combination of 32bit CPU and UEFI.
It’s also a really good distro in general.

Yes. Blahaj is not a place to debate whether trans women are real women.