Arch Linux for desktop. Whatever for servers, usually ubuntu, though I’ve been tempted to use arch then too when dealing with out of date software.

1. Software is always up to date
   • instead of old with security backports which have always kind of skeeved me out
   • so upstream issue systems are relevant
   • so I get new features without having to wait
2. When I have to turn a wrench the wiki and forums are amazing
3. I feel like I control my system

If amnezia is sus they probably added mullvad to lend credibility to the overall statement

No website is certainly a choice

It’s very important. I use KDE. Historically I’ve used xfce and lxde. I want something with sane defaults that will let me tweak things. I very much don’t want something that wants to limit you by pretending you’re on a touch device when you’re on mouse and keyboard, or insists it knows better than you what you want

Everyone knows you want as much income inequality as possible. That’s why it’s a win condition in civilization games right?

People shouldn’t use google pay in the first place. All of these things being tied together by the same group is a problem in and of itself.

They won’t kill side loading (the fact we even call it side loading instead of simply installing software is a problem). They’ll just shoot it in the knees a little. No big deal.

Unexpected???

The CEO is the face. The board is involved in decisions of this magnitude.

Silly that it has to use hedge language like not ready “yet” and “premature”. These executives fucked up and deserve to be roasted. They didn’t make an innocent mistake. They were grossly incompetent and should be losing their jobs for not doing even the most basic due diligence before making decisions that were not only bad for the affected employees but for their customers and the company itself.

Are they? What have they actually done to make it a bad choice? From my memory the last year or so they’ve:

1. Added some AI stuff that I don’t use but isn’t in my way
2. Added tab groups and sidebar tabs which I use constantly
3. Clarified some legalese that didn’t change anything but caused everyone to say the sky is falling for no reason
4. Refused to deprecate manifest v2

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying Mozilla is perfect and does everything I want. I wish they weren’t funded by google and I wish they didn’t waste so much money on executives, but not only do you need them to stand up to google by continuing to develop firefox (all the downstream gecko browsers would collapse), you need them to continue to participate in web standards committees so google doesn’t get to run away and do whatever the fuck it wants (no other non-big-tech entity has a seat at the table or would get one)

I swear there is astroturfing for anti-mozilla sentiment to undermine their importance in the ecosystem

Edit: I just remembered they are using LLM to replace human written documentation. That is the worst thing they’ve done by far :/

I’m usually a firefox defender, because usually people are blowing everything they do out of proportion, and straight up making up negatives.

That said, I don’t know what a “modern AI browser” is but I know it’s something I don’t want. Hopefully “AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.” Is a serious statement.

But also, the AI features they’ve added so far have been out of my way and haven’t bothered me, and if what you’re calling for is to use chromium based browsers (gecko down stream is fine) then you are making the wrong decision for the future of the internet. Firefox, chrome, edge, and safari are the only browsers which have a snowballs chance of being accepted in corporate environments, and supporting google over Mozilla is a losing proposition.

Pure evil

To be fair, dual booting is not really for people that aren’t very tech savvy. Just thinking about trying to explain partitions to some people I know is giving me a headache

It’s actually less trouble. Back when i used ubuntu based distros I ended up using the arch wiki anyway, and I never successfully upgraded from one ubuntu LTS to the next without problems anyway, so I figured why not try the distro that doesn’t have upgrades and has amazing docs. It’s much more stable.

Did you think executives were smart? What’s really heartbreaking is how many engineers did. I even know some that are pretty good that tell me how much more productive they are and all about their crazy agent setups (from my perspective i don’t see any more productivity)

As for Windows apps, do NOT try to run them via Wine

I wouldn’t say that’s totally fair. Just like proton with games, wine keeps getting better, and full support is really a case by case basis.

I think dolphin (the KDE default) can pretty much do everything including dual pane these days

I don’t use one, and my coworkers that do use them are very loud about it, and worse at their jobs than they were a year ago.

I think a lot of people are going to struggle getting their head around the idea of voice being a reliable, primary input method when using a PC, but with agentic AI and the ability for the OS to understand user intent and natural language, it’s going to feel a lot more natural than you might think.

You’re damn right we’re going to struggle. I won’t believe it is reliable enough to be anything but infuriating until I see it.