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If this Meta AI chatbot didn’t exist, this man would most likely still be alive right now.

I don’t think YaST is really required and they’re apparently moving away from it. I’ve barely used it myself, but I hear it’s one of the things many people like about openSUSE.

Try Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora.

I think openSUSE is also a good option for newbies, either the Leap (stable release) or Tumbleweed (rolling release) variants. One nice thing openSUSE does for newbies and why I have been using it in the process of moving away from Windows is that it comes out of the box with automatic system snapshots enabled so that if you break anything it’s relatively simple to roll back to a working config.

Yes, good example!

Tidal pays the highest per play amount to artists, and Apple Music also pays high (second highest for mainstream artists after tidal last I checked)

I think this info may be outdated. I’ve been seeing a lot of people recommending Qobuz. It looks like they may be paying the most per stream now, and they also allow you to buy tracks and supposedly have the best sound quality streams(?).

Is this also the end of Software-Defined Radio in Europe?

Many distros ship flatpak app store with default filter set to Verified Publisher only.

Also, if your distro doesn’t do this, you can do it yourself. You can modify, for instance, KDE Discover’s flathub repo to use the verified subset.

I visited a local Microsoft office in the mid-90s. Their office employee kitchen had a poster of the Internet Explorer logo smashing the Netscape logo to a bloody pulp.

RickGuard

Let’s be honest now… Zuckerberg is building a globally-distributed, industrial-scale, disaster-proof spank bank for himself.

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• Sin/fulness? Spite/fulness? Stupidity?

Got it, thanks for explaining!

Thanks!

You mean the attachment in my comment above? It’s a webp file copied from the article, the table of year-by-year Linux desktop market share (global).

I’m not sure about the legal intricacies of it, but there is commercial software being distributed through flatpak on Flathub for a while now. The first example that comes to mind is Bitwig, a well-known, paid, commercial Digital Audio Workstation: https://flathub.org/apps/com.bitwig.BitwigStudio

Also, Flathub is working on offering paid apps: https://news.itsfoss.com/flathub-paid-apps/

I thought this may be a consideration too, but I would expect it to be a minority of websites that would do this, no?

I thought this may be one of the considerations.

For sure, it seems to be much less talked about than the distro itself. I’m not sure how well it works on other distros, so that would warrant research.

Out of genuine curiosity, what is the reasoning for using the Win user agent?

I know! This article kind of addresses that with this line: “although we can’t be certain of the exact numbers, Linux is clearly growing”.

Interestingly enough, reading through again, the 6% figure is from US government sites, but the growth numbers in the line I quoted in the post is actually global. Here’s the graph they’re referring to:

I hadn’t noticed that dip in 2025 until I looked at this graph more closely!