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How does a company like this make money? Like, is it basically a consulting firm that plans to do development on core Linux features? Custom dev work that they are also able to open source? They already have quite a few employees on the about page.

No, but it does have three antennas, which you can position to form The Trident of Portseidon.

Seeing major projects move away from GitHub is so encouraging, I love it. But hopefully people also see that codeberg can use some donations to be able to handle the new traffic. (Which reminds me, I need to do that…)

We need a six-fingered version of this image. I’m guessing it’ll get a lot of use next year.

Linux nerds literally only want one thing and it’s fucking the idea that your full disk encryption will pay off one day.

Emacs is real whether you like it or not.

(Also I go past one of these billboards about once a week, and I’ve always been so curious about how many calls they get. Or what they say when you call. I should get a Google voice number and check it out.)

It’s basically a linux distro that’s meant to appeal to Windows users who want to keep the Windows look and feel.

In other words, blasphemy in this church.

I mean, a rusty USB port is pretty on-point here. It’s not often that the perfect stock photo pun exists, you have to take it when you get the chance.

My barber would be all the way over on the bottom right. Makes literally like 300 cuts just while I’m there and I’ve never even seen a tape measure anywhere in the shop.

It accurately got them backwards, the same way I always do. :)

Ahh, the classic Firefox logo. How old is that sticker?

That’s definitely it for me. I have one Windows computer remaining, my gaming PC in my living room. And every few weeks, when I turn it on, I get the full-screen “let’s finish setting up Windows” wizard, which wants me to subscribe to Office 365 and OneDrive. This PC is six years old; it’s set up already. I’m going to install Bazzite pretty soon.

So THAT’S what those “not actually a video but plays like a video” text demos are. This is so cool.

For those haven’t read the article, “system requirements” here means the minimum version of various system libraries, like openssl. It doesn’t mean “system requirements” like in a video game – you don’t need to upgrade your PC to use the new systemd version.

Honestly buttctl has some nice features once you get used to it.

Yeah, I think XFCE is my new favorite desktop environment, regardless of which distribution I use in the future.

Unfortunately, I don’t have great insight on those two, since I keep my laptop setup pretty simple.

I don’t really mess with the init system very much, so I can’t really weigh in on that. I’ve probably only run “sudo service start <thing>” a few times, so aside from the CLI being a little different from systemd, I haven’t noticed a difference. There would probably be another learning curve if you’re looking to actually create system services, but I never end up doing that on my laptop.

I haven’t had any issues with the packages, but that’s probably because I use the Flatpak if it’s available. So yes, the debian repo wouldn’t be current, but all of the daily things I use (browser, Thunderbird, Steam, text editor) get updates from the Flathub repo. The built-in MX package manager has a section for Flathub, so you don’t have to add anything for that.

I’ve been curious about antiX ever since I installed MX Linux on my laptop. MX Linux says it’s a “collaborative effort between antiX and MX” – it seems like a slightly heavier version of antiX, using XFCE instead of IceWM for the desktop, but otherwise leaning towards lower resource use.

The one thing keeping me from checking out antiX is that I’ve just been liking MX Linux so much, it stopped me from distro hopping, and I just don’t want to start again, haha.

Nah, I don’t think so. I mean, sure, arch is a little cringe, but it’s not that bad. Cool terminal, btw.