I could see an argument for companies that work with healthcare or government that have to have systems / software specifically audited / vetted / approved before use. But yeah you’re absolutely right, getting that far behind the times sounds like a nightmare when it does finally go EOL.
As much flak as they catch, you gotta hand it to Ubuntu for offering up to 12 years of support to companies willing to pay for it. It doesn’t make sense for anything but a paid service, but dang is it impressive.
I need to start doing this more… “Active” starts to get pretty stale.
What about New Outlook (New) with New in the icon?
How else are you to know which version you’re using??
I mean the alternative is just eating their shit… what’re you doing?
I just sent them a note along with my CCPA opt out request saying how I could no longer recommend their products unless they revert their practices.
And then I followed it up by telling all my family not to buy their stuff. Gotta at least do something about this BS.
This feels a lot like the argument of well what if they break TLS? A lot of hypotheticals when I don’t have any reason or proof to believe that they’ve made a back door
I was able to install Linux on my 2015 MBP, but weird stuff didn’t work OOTB like the webcam and while I eventually got it working, it was less than polished because it was all reverse engineered workarounds by the Linux gods who managed to figure out the exact commands that were needed to be run.
Also the hardware support is not great, for example the webcam. I installed Linux on my old MBP but it was a hassle to get the webcam working involving some dubious command line entries with sudo
They can lie about how the advanced data encryption works…. But then they also tell you that you’re shit outta luck if you forget or screw up your decryption code. If they really had a back door, then I would expect them to take a much less hard line on you’re screwed if you lose the key.
I would be surprised if they had a back door too given how they’ve pushed back on back doors from the NSA and EU
More power to you! To each their own, I prefer most of the tweaks that Bluefin did and they make it pretty easy to turn off some of the more controversial ones.
It’s basically Silverblue but with all the nice to haves already built in. They try to make it extremely user friendly for install and then just using it without tweaks or having to add anything yourself
They recommend using brew
to install CLI apps. There are also dev containers and toolbx
, but the latter is not recommended.
You should look into the Universal Blue images
I especially like Bluefin
A new preferences dialog has been added to Software Manager that has, among other options, a toggle to show unverified Flatpaks — but the distro makes clear this is “not recommended”
I bet they wish they got a picture for proof
In case you actually don’t know:
One of the great tricks is also [Super] + [.] to bring up a mixed emoji and emoticon library!
I think Washington state has outlawed them except for things like safety signs and I think that’s great.
This is from like 15 years ago, so maybe it’s not true anymore.