To add about defaults from what other posters have shown…

I don’t remember if this was there on Debian 12, but at least when you’re on Debian 13 later this year, you can go to “Settings” in Discover and select if you want Debian or Flatpak to be the default source

nvtop, while it sounds like it’s nvidia, is brand agnostic It actually stands for “neat videocard top”

It’ll show per process usage of memory and compute usage on most GPUs

Yeah, their branding makes it harder to recover.

I don’t know how they’ll change their versioning in the future, so I just went with that.

If they don’t make an obvious split to when the extension system is stable, they may never get that new beloved version like KDE managed

GNOME 2 was different and easy to customize

GNOME is still in their KDE 4.x days where it needs time to mature.

KDE 3 was loved, KDE 4 made a ton of breaking changes, and was reviled. KDE 5/6 are now butter smooth and fixed all the issues from the 3 -> 4 transition

GNOME 4/5 will probably come back into the loved category if they start stabilizing the extension system some more

I think you agreed with me?

I said the people who say Linux is so hard are the people that have learned so much about Windows that it’s ingrained in them. So when they try to switch, they get frustrated that it isn’t exactly the same

The vocal people saying it’s harder have a lot of experience with Windows, and know how to work around all of its deficiencies after being a power user dealing with it for 15+ years

With that mindset and not wanting to start over, Windows is easier

For casual users or someone who’s willing to learn, Linux is easier

If they can take my unlocked device by force, they can probably also break my fingers to coerce me to unlock it See also: https://xkcd.com/538/

Randall is right in pointing out you need to consider your attack vectors, but this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take reasonable precautions

Most people are more likely to run into the type of attack OP references than someone who can break LUKS encryption stealing their device

They require you to enter the user’s password, so it still functions as a lock

I mean, it’s better than back when the screen locker program crashed, your computer was just unlocked

If you’re seriously wanting to compile optimized software for those devices, you would want to investigate “cross compiling”

If this is normally only used for full screen 3D, would there be a way to enable it only on fullscreen, a. la. the old unredirect full screen windows in X11?

Microsoft has agreed to purchase all of the power from the reactor over the next 20 year

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/20/microsoft-taps-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-to-power-ai/?guccounter=1

The original reporting sounded decent - Microsoft was spinning up a decommissioned reactor, everyone wins

This new reporting of they can’t afford it makes it seem like a bad idea in its entirety

I mean, it’s internally consistent with the inbetween too, for the first three:

They went Xbox, did a 360 to face the same direction, and re-released the Xbox 1

If your speedometer/tachometer is a screen instead of dials, it’s extremely likely it’s running Linux, too

So still somewhat useful in the auto space

It’s not just betas - it’s in the main release, too

We’re still using them on machines where performance doesn’t matter

On build machines, they’re on a special VLAN and don’t have endpoint protection, but they only download from a protected mirror

Their ftrace hooks caused all disk usage to be serialized, making your multi-core processor single-core when doing anything I/O bound

We saw between 500% - 800% increases in build times with their software installed

without any distro or configuration caveats.

In those cases, they generally have the Ubuntu version that’s supported in the specs section

Oh god. Sentinel one is horrible. If they’re taking issue with your testing, you’ve really screwed the pooch

Somewhere around 0,0 or 1,1

There are amazing possibilities in the theoretical space, but there hasn’t been enough of a breakthrough on how to practically make stable qubits on a scale to create widespread hype