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> He moved to some launcher [...]. As I understand it, using a launcher prevents you from using the Google Play Store, so you're not buying apps. I'm going to chalk it up to you no…

> The developer version is literally the alpha release, later renamed aurora, later named developer. It is not acceptable to use an alpha release as a main driver for security and …

Have you tried Fedora Silverblue[1] and its cousins? `root` is an immutable image powered by something akin to `git` but for OS files. You can layer RPMs (although you should use f…

Mullvad is actually a Firefox fork and it directly uses Tor's privacy enhancements[0] to Firefox for a private web browsing experience. As a matter of fact, it really looks like To…

Exactly my concerns. Fedora is significantly tied to Red Hat currently, and honestly if Red Hat keeps pulling in moves like that, I fear for the project's health in the long run. A…

Besides the fact that Uber Eats barely made a dent in the marketshare and came in way later, it also attempted the same strategy to bring in consumers. I distinctly recall using co…

CentOS Stream 9, which is basically RHEL9 9.(x+1). The issue itself was overblown to hell, and after realizing that "rolling release" meant "one minor release ahead", I decided to …

In Ars Technica's article: > To ensure that none of their test ads reached vulnerable audiences, Global Witness deleted the ads before alarming messages like “Death to the children…

It is undeniable that corporate Linux has prefered GNOME over Plasma, I can't name you a single relevant European distro that uses Plasma as its default. - Canonical (United Kingdo…

Well, this thing has been in development since 1998![0] Furthermore, SEGA has historically been very lenient with the Sonic community, where you can see prototypes of the games out…

Chromium's a hard one for Debian. It is a big software that often suffers from security issues due to its size but it is hard to package according to Debian's policies. Its upstrea…

Indeed, as a Brazilian, it gets to my nerves reading those conspiracy theories about "how the media hid ${TREATMENT}'s effectiveness" or "there is no interest on using ${TREATMENT}…

This seems perfectly fine. Private APIs are private and shouldn't be used by third-party, specially if it can bypass security measures [1], furthermore, they've a working alternati…

While unlikely, it could've been that the kernel version was too old or you were missing non-free drivers for something? On my experience, if it worked in Ubuntu, it would work on …

That's not Unity, that's GNOME with extensions mimicking Unity. Also instead of changing desktop environments, he could install the clean/stock GNOME session and then add Dash to P…

Have you checked out Fedora? Out of the box I had as good as (or close enough to) Windows' battery life on my ThinkPads and normal consumer hardware due to certain optimizations [1…