You mean old Ubuntu?
You mean old Ubuntu?
This, but unironically.
Because Windows 10 Support runs out next year.
With the current Windows 11 installer this doesn’t work anymore.
But you can download the ISO, use Rufus to create a USB boot stick and disable all the requirements (account, RAM, TPM, CPU generation) in Rufus’ options. Also lets you auto-deny all telemetry options and create a user account without prompting.
Though these days, you might get to recommend Linux anyway by saying “you should use wsl2.”
You really really shouldn’t. It sucks in a number of ways neither Windows nor Linux do by themselves.
My bank requires a second factor for everything done over the web instance. That second factor is either an app or a hardware token generator you have to buy seperately.
Uhm, actually, it’s a copypasta that starts exactly the way they posted it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlD9UBTcSW4
I daily drive an Android phone without any Google services or apps.
Transaction number. It’s a second factor for authentication of basically everything you want to do while banking online.
Most people use a phone app for it (which doesn’t reliably work on degoogled and rooted phones), but you also have the choice of buying a dedicated TAN generator device, so people without smartphones can use online banking.
Things I need from the Play Store are:
Things I don’t need, but use (installed in the same way and run without play services):
So luckily, in Germany, you can live without Google. Nothing actually requires it.
I bet it’s North Korea!
Framework’s choice for display isn’t Linux compatible.
They really should have set the option Make_Discord_Blurry_On_Framework_Laptops
to "false"
in the Linux kernel.
You demand evidence to prove that Israel didn’t commit a war crime?
Proving guilt works the other way around.
Alt text: I’m the philosopher until someone hands me a burrito.
“We value providing our customers with choice, so there is an option to dismiss the notification.”
Thank you daddy Microsoft for still letting me click “no” on your invasive popup ad with a dark pattern to make me change my system settings.
Because most sites have Google trackers installed.
Search engine optimizers.
If you spend more time on a site, it looks higher value, so they do everything to increase the time you need to find the info you came for.
If you read more than the headline, you’d know that you can simply purchase those options instead of subscribing, if you want.
Which makes the entire article pointless. But you’d need to read more than the headline to see that, which is too much to ask.
Yes. Now if you use apt to install Firefox or Thunderbird, it will reinstall snap and install the snap versions of those programs.
If you blacklist snap, it’ll throw an error when you try to install Firefox or Thunderbird cause it can’t resolve their “dependencies”.
You’ll have to install those programs from outside of Ubuntu’s repositories, and the list of affected programs is growing.
Ubuntu’s stated goal is to eventually use snap for all userland apps.