That confirms it, Omarchy is the official operating system of bigots.

One of the few stories around that paints Anthropic in a good light. Looks like they did what they were required to and potentially saved lives.

How many flaws does this add?

Thanks for adding the model ranges, @IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz

Lenovo has pimped out the Thinkpad name ever since they bought it from IBM. Whilst some thinkpads are still durable (the business class especially) they also slap the name on some very poorly made laptops. Worth spending time researching models rather than just assuming every thinkpad is built like they used to be.

We use framework, and they are very good and I like them a lot. (Noting OP explicitly excludes them though)

But I wouldn’t say they’re particularly durable. The chassis has some flex in it and we’ve had two screens fail out of 30 without being particularly abused.

But of course, parts are available and repairs are very easy, so there’s that.

Omarchy is Hannah Montana Linux for bigots.

OP doesn’t say they bought it, only it’s coming to them.

I suspect it’s entirely grift motivated. There’s obviously going to be a takedown so owner is likely going to earn what they can and then bail the second X’s lawyers send a cease and desist. I can’t see any honest or altruistic motivation to do this.

If this affects European users then the GDPR does make it a crime.

Same.

Clickbait article seems to be (poorly) written about people who are unhappy rather than people in IT. Some overlap doesn’t equate to totality, and you’ll find the same in every profession.

You’ll never take perl from me!

If a debian based distro there’s several ways to copy your package choices from one machine to another, the likes of using dpkg --get-selections and using that output on the new machine with --set-selections, but probably the easiest way is to use apt-clone, which streamlines that process to install the same packages on the new machine.

As for your firefox and desktop packages, they’ll be saved in /home/username (usually in .hidden dirs) - so just copy all of that over.

Alternatively, use an image cloner like clonezilla to make an exact disk copy and install that.

Or run your machine as a vm inside Proxmox or another hypervisor. That way you can have instant snapshots before you do risky things, as well as multiple scheduled entire-machine backups.

Or ansible (which I do a lot of), which can set whatever packages and copy your golden-image files over as you want. (But keeping those up to date requires a little thought)

Um, do you? I don’t seem to need to, never had except for major release updates and changing sources.

Just now;

root@backups:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.5

Then “apt update” and “apt upgrade” followed by “reboot” and

root@backups:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.6

(My history)

 497  apt update
  498  cat /etc/os-release
  499  apt upgrade
  500  reboot
  501  uname -a
  502  cat /etc/os-release
  503  history

within their ecosystem

Only if you use windows. Steam runs on linux as well, and the majority of the same games play perfectly.

Good shout! I use syncthing myself to sync all my useful stuff between multiple devices seamlessly.

OS update fuss level is hugely dependant on distro though.

EL and rebuilds? Full new machine and copy services over (or if paying RHEL, use their migrator which can have mixed results). Agree, huge fuss.

Debian/ubuntu? Dist-upgrade, normally safe and much quicker.

Plus a bunch of rolling release distros that just keep up to date (but will occasionally add breaking changes that you might not be ready for)

Can’t so easily get around hardware issues, so build cattle that can be easily redeployed or scaled. Doesn’t fit all situations though.

rEFInd

Good shout. Not something I’ve heard of before and I’ve certainly had my share of problems with grub2, even recently.

Total agreement. So many unsung heroes involved in Debian. Work has agreed with me - today’s job involved migrating those load balancers to Debian underneath.

Hmm… Do I side with Epic, famous for:

1. Apple app store lawsuit because they didn’t get enough of the profit
2. Google play lawsuit, ditto.
3. Paying publishers to release games exclusively on Epic Games Store, pushing up prices to gamers.
4. Many allegations by former allegations about toxic work culture, very long working hours, especially “crunch” times leading to burnout and mental health issues.
5. Aggressive loot boxing and monetization of games specifically targetting children.
6. Having to settle a lawsuit with the FTC for $275m to escape prosecution for breaching children’s privacy laws and forced to issue a further $245m in refunds to customers who were victims of “dark patterns” employed by Epic.

Or with Steam?