Every time someone cries about hardware not being supported, you find out they didn’t care to look up compatibility. You can also ask the vendor, if you’re lost.
It’s like you buy a Diesel car and complain that it it’s annyoing because it breaks when you fill in gasoline.
This doesn’t seem to be a problem with snap. Canonical probably tried to show vendors a way how to distribute software commercially. But vendors are on the level of cavemen and don’t know shit about Linux even after serving a solution. Or they simply don’t care about building up a market opportunity.
I don’t want to defend Ubuntu. I don’t like Ubuntu especially, but it might be a simple explanation.
Next time buy from vendors who use USB flash drive or bootable CD-ROM.
You should notice that I use the word “trust”. I install stuff on my servers and PCs from people who I trust. Why should I trust someone who makes an anticheat engine. Why should I have a reason to do that?
You should also understand that a kernel-level piece of code that can be updated is a very good rootkit. It contains all essential tools to modify hardware, kernel, install drivers, keyloggers etc. It satisfies the definition of “rootkit” very well.
One single piece of code is enough to be a rootkit.
Also definition by antimalware vendors:
https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/definition/rootkit
https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/what-is-rootkit
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/rootkit-revealer#what-is-a-rootkit
Popular definition (e.g . Ionos):
Rootkits: The rootkit is considered to be a type of Trojan horse. Many Trojan horses exhibit the characteristics of a rootkit. The main difference is that rootkits actively conceal themselves in a system and also typically provide the hacker with administrator rights.
If you compromise your system with software that you don’t know and potentially can introduce a backdoor (even involuntary via bugs), you have a rootkit installed.
If you don’t trust it, don’t install it with admin privileges. Maybe don’t install it at all. Anticheat is a shady business. And mostly not owned by the company that produces the maybe trusted product to be protected.
Anti cheat = rootkit. You should not install it at all.
I can only use Xmonad as a window manager, so I’d like to avoid Wayland. But what Mozilla enables as default is fortunately not relevant.
Linux distributions compile stuff by themselves. No one uses vendor-provided software if there is a way to compile it.
It’s easy not to talk or not to read content from other people. Why is age relevant here? It does as much as sense to me as to have an option to block other genders, religions or even skin colors.
I don’t feel uncomfortable talking to kids. Why should I start to be?
Kids and juveniles can learn a lot from adults. Conversations with adults make them smart.
I don’t believe this is the right way.
Sooner or later everyone will find their way to Debian. It’s boring and it works.
(My opinion) No, you aren’t paranoid. I’m thinking a bit like you, but I also consider probabilities. You need to download the checksums from the official website and the ISO from mirrors. Two different sources would need to be hacked. This is where I say, it’s hard and secondly someone would notice that hack very quickly.
Signing the ISO or the checksums with a well-known signature is still important. I verify it, if a signature available. It’s just a couple of seconds and doesn’t cost anything.
Also to train Microsoft to be more annoying.
I get confused by non-modal text editors.
Of course, it’s better to use some frameworks for logging, especially because these verbose statements are often needed for assertions while unit testing the code. But it’s still equivalent to printf.
I use debugger sometimes. I actually like to load core dumps to take a look at the stack trace. But I usually don’t really need debugger interactively because when some error appears, I usually already have an idea what happened. And lots of embedded code needs timing in milliseconds, so debuggers won’t help.
Because if you invested a lot of time on carefully choosing the places where printf should be to get all the info you need, you just need to unset NDEBUG and voilà everything that you need is there again.
I don’t like systemd at all, but a boot routine that allows to load the plain kernel instead of an image and maybe choose other init systems than systemd would be nice. This is how most other Unix-like systems work.
I am not a guy who blindly trusts technology. Why go forward when you cannot see what’s in front of you? How can that happen?
AFAIK Google makes a disclaimer about it. A bridge can also be destroyed on the same day, so…
I don’t know what you mean with Adobe. It’s a company not an application. Adobe Reader sucks and I don’t need Adobe Pro, because I am able to use LaTeX.
Why I need a real distribution instead of a naked operating system like Windows is that it comes with ten thousands of preconfigured packages.
Then the system is transparent. I know what it does and can analyze it easily. When something doesn’t work, I am able to find the cause. This is essential for me.
I don’t need any shady antinvirus that hooks into the kernel, making the computer overall insecure. I generally trust the OpenSource community more than I trust Microsoft.
I also don’t like ads on my system, except I subscribed to them. I pay for software and give devs money to keep projects running. But I don’t want to see unrelated ads.
I’m a total newb when I use GUIs. I need max automation… I don’t really know how to do this. Also… I never had issues with drivers. And on Windows there is almost nothing installed. You need to install stuff by using a browser … horrible.