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Have they sold the company to Microsoft? "Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu delivers an optimised, cost-effective database platform" Of course not, it's not free so it's not cost effective compared to the best database, which is PostgreSQL. Integration with Active Directory group policy seems also a really bad idea since it allows insecure proprietary software to control your Linux machines.
Have they sold the company to Microsoft? "Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu delivers an optimised, cost-effective database platform" Of course not, it's not free so it's not cost effective compared to the best database, which is PostgreSQL. Integration with Active Directory group policy seems also a really bad idea since it allows insecure proprietary software to control your Linux machines.
Active Directory has its own share of problems, but the benefit of having a central location for policies which enforce them on the connected machines is a security plus despite the addition of attack surface by itself.
While I first thought that AD integration regards group policy looks like a hard architecture mismatch, it is interestingly not. Take the Windows Registry with millions of keys vs. the thousands of etc files and their thousand sub settings.
Completely unrelated: I just discovered Rofi (extensible Spotlight-ish launcher for Linux) and it’s lovely, especially when bound to Super+Space.
> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling. I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't hav…
It's interesting to see Wayland enabled by default. I'm curious to know what state Wayland is in nowadays, especially regarding how well it works with Nvidia cards. The last time I tried it out was around 2017ish when Fedora enabled it by default. It was 100% not ready then as it wouldn't even boot into the desktop with my nvidia card. Is it actually ready now? Does it work with nvidia cards? Does GPU acceleration wo…
XWayland support on NVIDIA should be coming later this year: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-G... Additionally, NVIDIA seems to be putting a lot of effort into overall Wayland support (yay!): https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-4... Hopefully, by next year, Wayland on NVIDIA should be "fully" supported. It's slow progress, but it is moving forward.
> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling. I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't hav…
Doesn't Snap solve this?
> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling. I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't hav…
How so? I use the default Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04 and it's updated through apt like almost all other applications/libs I've installed and it stays pretty up-to-date. E.g. Firefox started offering version 88.0 on the general release channel three days and there ISN'T YET a corresponding update to the package repo, however I expect it'll most likely pop up there within the week.
I’ve been away from Linux for a while. So Microsoft is involved here, and Google’s Dart/Flutter is also a key foundational component? Am I understanding that right?
With any open project, you can lean in favor of only working with other free things, or focusing on usable scenarios even with non-free software. My impression has always been that Ubuntu leans to the latter, trying to provide a working solution out of the box. This is why you can get PCs from enterprise PC vendors like Dell and HP shipped with Ubuntu.