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Screenshots! The first thing most people want when evaluating an operating system for a personal device is a screenshot. A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of a screenshot, you can choose what’s in it to visually communicate key features. I’ve been digging around the site for several minutes and I have yet to find a single one.
Nah, just seeing Ubuntu does it makes me want to not touch it.
I was one of the relatively early adopters in 2015 when the BQ Aquaris E4.5 came out. I gave Ubuntu Touch a chance, particularly as I was longing for something comparable to Maemo on the Nokia N900. At first it was great. OpenSSH, bash, etc. I had some fun hacking on it. However, I quickly realized they threw a beta product at the people. I missed phone calls because of race conditions. I couldn't connect to my wifi…
Most painful loss of a device I've suffered.
What kind of a bubble do the Ubuntu devs live in if they dont see a reason to show even a single screenshot of their product? What goes through the head of the product manager writing a whole essay and a full extensive changelog but not bothering to add a fucking picture?
I really want to like linux but every dang distro i've tried is 3 feet from gold. It's like the final steps are never taken. Great artists steal.
Torvalds, Stallman, Gosling, they don't steal, they innovate.
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It would install its bootloader into its own partition and then it would be up to you to direct your boot sequence to look there. I just did this 2 hours ago with opensuse.
how does a non-technical user direct its boot loader to boot from a partition?
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how do you expect it to boot? At least linux keeps windows as an option, try installing windows after linux and you will be left without a way to boot it
It would install its bootloader into its own partition and then it would be up to you to direct your boot sequence to look there. I just did this 2 hours ago with opensuse.
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It would install its bootloader into its own partition and then it would be up to you to direct your boot sequence to look there. I just did this 2 hours ago with opensuse.
how does a non-technical user direct its boot loader to boot from a partition?
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It would install its bootloader into its own partition and then it would be up to you to direct your boot sequence to look there. I just did this 2 hours ago with opensuse.
While windows had its things in the bootloader, how could opensuse take over the boot, without touching it?
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It would install its bootloader into its own partition and then it would be up to you to direct your boot sequence to look there. I just did this 2 hours ago with opensuse.
While windows had its things in the bootloader, how could opensuse take over the boot, without touching it?
As an example, if you install Windows 98, then Windows XP, then Windows 10 side by side, the following things happen:
1. Windows 98 installs its bootloader.
2. Windows XP takes a dump of 98's bootloader into a file and then overwrites the MBR with NTLDR. NTLDR is then configured with an option to chainload into 98's bootloader by reading its dump file.
3. Windows 10 takes a dump of NTLDR into a file and then overwrites the MBR with Windows Boot Manager. Windows Boot Manager is then configured with an option to chainload into NTLDR by reading its dump file.
This means you can install Windows 10 (and Windows Boot Manager), install Linux and have it install its bootloader (eg: GRUB) somewhere, then configure Windows Boot Manager to chainload the Linux bootloader (eg: GRUB) by reading from wherever it's stored.
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Not OP, but they deleted the boot loader of when windows drive when I installed Ubuntu on a different drive... not cool, Cannonical.
how do you expect it to boot? At least linux keeps windows as an option, try installing windows after linux and you will be left without a way to boot it
That being said, as I wrote in a comment[1] further down both NTLDR and Windows Boot Manager are capable of chainloading into other bootloaders, including Linux bootloaders like GRUB.
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I'm not that guy, but snaps are the main reason for not liking Ubuntu recently. The impression I get is that Canonical is trying to monetize Ubuntu's popularity and a lot of people are resentful of that since Ubuntu gets most of it's value from the free software it bundles into it's distro.
I think you're right, but Maybe it's my myopia, but I feel they were easily the most dev friend years ago, and poured their life and money into it, to benefit others But then after ubuntu phone, the level of ingratitude from us devs were shocking Project focus wasn't always on the ball, but we the community ripped them apart for it So yeah, snaps is a little more lookin' after number one. I agree with that assessment…