“I’ve heard somewhere that they’ll require a constant api calls from each system to an external verification system that is even paid”

or what? you can’t use the software store? most of the stuff on there is open source and you can compile it yourself

if it comes down to it you can just compile your own kernel that doesn’t do that.

what about airgapped systems?

It just doesn’t work

You could just put a fake date in at user setup from what I understand. It adds the field to the user database but there isn’t any verification that that date is true

bought one of the new snapdragon x elite laptops refurbished recently. obviously it came with windows 11 and i had to briefly use it to shrink the boot partition and disable bitlocker so i could install the ubuntu concept image on it.

The amount of advertising i was subjected to in that time was infuriating. not to mention the frankly arduous setup wizard.

Even with the slight bugginess of a “concept image” OS, the user experience is SOOOO much better than shitty horrible windows.

Sent from my HP OmniBook running NOT windows