It’s been fine for the average nerd for a couple decades. The installer has been mostly unchanged since 2005 or so, and I don’t see much difference in an installed system either. I think you can live boot it ahead of installation now, maybe that’s a big deal to some people?

Most teams I’ve been in would do a time boxed task (sometimes referred to as a spike) in those cases. Basically, you get a task with maybe 3 or 5 story points, and the goal is to either complete it or find out what it takes to do so. Then you make follow-up tasks for the next sprint. It’s worked pretty well for me in those cases with a lot of uncertainty.

Are you confusing flatpaks and other containerization solutions like docker? Flatpaks are specifically for UI applications, and that doesn’t make much sense on a server.

Yeah, basically. Speeds up new installations, less duplicate downloads. Not interesting at all if you’re updating regularly, which most people are.

He’s resting his hand on his foot, because having two hover-hands in a photo looks awkward, and he doesn’t have any pockets.

That’s not a given. A friend of mine worked on a weather forecast implemented in Fortran by people who were better at meteorology than programming, and some functions had thousands of parameters. The parameters for one of the calls (not the function definition) were actually supplied in a separate include file.

They were attractive until they started talking.

Person of the Year is not an endorsement of their practices, it’s really just whoever dominated the news cycle that year. Both Hitler and Stalin have been Person of the Year. Sometimes it’s not even people, like “The Computer” in 1982.

There was a guy who got approached by a flight attendant for doing calculus on a plane. Some other passenger had reported him for doing something in Arabic, which we all know could hijack and take down the plane!

Chrome OS is down, they probably got reinstalled with regular Linux. The rest represents about 1% of the total market share, which could probably be Steam Decks.

Docker does a lot of mumbo jumbo with the disk, I’m guessing that’s why. Start a container with a host folder mapped in and do something moderately IO-intensive, like clone a large-ish git repo, and you will notice it’s a lot slower than bare metal. I’m guessing this is because docker uses union file systems heavily, and that adds IO overhead. You’d probably get more or less equivalent performance to bare metal if all you did was set up a simpler form of container which just configured some namespaces.

TL;DR: Containers are fast, docker specifically does extra stuff which is slow.

Finland is a developed country. If they don’t have enough computers for that it’s a choice, not for lack of resources.

But does anyone do computer labs anymore? Every school I’ve seen the past few years issued either a laptop or a tablet to every student. That was admittedly in fairly affluent countries or areas, but again, Finland is a developed country. A country which routinely tops international rankings for education. They invest in education like a developed nation should, and could afford testing equipment if they wanted to.

I don’t know anything about the system in question, but having an exam system based on live-booting sounds like a nightmare to execute. Most people don’t have USB booting enabled by default for security reasons, and most people don’t know how to enable it. I personally have to look it up every time for my personal devices, because it varies by manufacturer and I rarely need to do it. Having to guide 30 stressed-out 15 year olds through that process sounds like it would take longer than the exam itself.

My guess is they changed it for practical, not technical reasons.

Is this something that happens on Ubuntu or something? My Debian system hasn’t pulled in any snap stuff to my knowledge.

Some people like their screen and keyboard being attached to each other.

It’s pretty obvious they like the form factor, otherwise “mini laptop” would not have been mentioned explicitly.

…and I get it. I used to have an old Compaq Evo N200 ultraportable which was about the size of an iPad. It was awesome. Way too slow for modern web use, though.

Debian Trixie just released, and they dropped support for 32-bit x86. You can still run 32-bit software, but the OS must be running on amd64 (aka x86_64). Given the amount of distros which are Debian derivatives, there’s probably not going to be a whole lot of systems around to run 32-bit Firefox on anyway.

All over it!

I think it’s just made by someone who loves RPM. Couldn’t quite make themselves place Debian in the enlightened group.

ZSH will tab-complete it even if you have a small D