I’ve got Ubuntu on my 2015 MacBook that worked out of the box except dedicated/integrated graphics switcher and the webcam. I also installed Windows which Apple puts out official drivers for. It’s just a computer, you can plug in a USB drive and install other operating systems just the same as any other laptop.

It still runs decently, I often forget it’s a 10 year old machine. I boot Ubuntu on it for work though, and boot Windows on it for the occasional game. It’s a useful machine.

This is hilarious, thanks for sharing!

I remember trying to do this when this first became law. Bell told me no anyways.

Windows Update is 100% malware by definition. Remember when Windows 7 had a free upgrade to Windows 10? It would force itself into the update queue with regular updates regardless of the user’s permission, and even after x days after the user explicitly said they didn’t want Windows 10. I worked in a computer repair shop in that time. The Windows 10 upgrade that people didn’t want or agree to often failed, breaking the machine. Sometimes we could recover the installation. Sometimes the OS had to be reinstalled. It was intentionally pushing software in deceiving ways to unconsenting users that broke their machine.

Yeah, I looked up the French solar roadways after seeing this to see the headline of ‘total disaster’. So as expected.

Ones that haven’t been mentioned yet is Clarkson’s Farm and the Grand Tour.

Is printing cumbersome and difficult on Linux? Yes, it can be. Is it better than Windows? Also yes.

That’s high. I didn’t know they went that far up.

Have you gone 13.6 km up there to verify it’s not there?

I was in for computer science major but took lots of other electives. The only course I needed Windows for was Windows App Programming. The rest I was fine with on Linux.

Piper is a GUI wrapper for libratbag which supports a bunch of gaming mice that is great for customizing button mapping. It doesn’t do per-app basis but once you map the mouse buttons to regular keys/commands you could use another application to do the mapping per application.

7 years ago. It’s been a very welcome change here.

But who uses that? I recall using a gnome plugin a few years ago that required an Open weather API key that you could use any location for.

Would Chromebooks not fit that description?

That’s a lot of buzzwords to say they have a faster GPU this year.

Not so much broken as change of focus. Their focus now is money, and it’s hard to turn down hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ubuntu has had all three of those things. Amazon ads in the search bar was awhile back. Not sure but I assume they still hijack installing Firefox using apt and instead install it using snap. And Ubuntu Pro popups are a new thing.

What would it look like? I’d guess Amazon ads in the search bar, proprietary package managers overriding the old open package manager, and popup ads for distribution Pro?

Wait…

That I get, but I’m sure the reserve isn’t that high if the starting bid is at $2500. It just seems low for the $30,000,000 the computer cost in 2017.