Facebook isn't real. Discord isn't real.
A distraction from what, Nancy? What are we supposed to be paying attention to in particular? Some evil policy that will be maintained by the next Democratic administration?
Might as well liquidate my 401k and take it to Atlantic City myself.
I think at this point you just activate it electronically. You can download the installation media straight from Microsoft.
(Not to pick on you specifically)
for mass adoption someone's going to need to figure out how to make it as easy to install Linux as it is to install Windows.
No. This has been true for a decade already. Install Windows from scratch and it sucks too. It will be missing essential software and drivers. It will have tons of absolutely STUPID default settings selected. For mass adoption we need to seize the factories where consumer electronics are produced. There is no alternative. Until then, computers and mobile devices will ship with this garbage and that is what people will use.
The sticking point is not how easy it is to install, or the quality of the software (or how difficult to use and shitty the stock software is). The sticking point is that people are spending hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars on a machine and want it to work "as intended." They don't want to do anything they are conditioned to think might void the warranty. They'll just tell themselves "oh, it works fine I guess."
It is easy (enough) to spend $1,000 on a laptop, unbox it, set the instruction booklet on fire, and wipe the drive before even peeling the plastic film off. Most people simply consider this a ridiculous thing to do.
Dual boot is totally viable, but much less necessary than it used to be. I did it for a long time and finally stopped about a year ago.
If you choose to dual boot, I recommend partitioning the disk using the Linux installer first (leaving space for Windows), then installing Windows, then actually installing Linux. Also, Linux and Windows will fight over whether your hardware clock is in local time or UTC. The path of least resistance is to configure Linux to use local time (this is an additional step to setting your timezone). Finally, Windows has a feature called "fast start-up" which effectively hibernates the OS when you shut off the computer. This will make the NTFS (Windows) filesystem inaccessible on Linux. You should disable this feature.
Cracks are mostly just a cosmetic blemish. It will still taste fine.
If there is one universal constant of pirate media, it is that nothing is ever labeled correctly or consistently ever.
Well, they ain't proper. They still can't make up their mind what gear they want to be in somewhere around the middle of the magazine, but there is no chain rub on the derailleur cage any more. Shit rides spooky quiet.
I think the rear derailleur is just janky. It skips the same gear on the way up and on the way down. The limit screws are set pretty well and any adjustment on the barrel adjuster just makes the rest of the shifting worse.
I just realized can probably use my car bike rack as a "pro stand" to properly tune my bike's derailleurs.
As the sun continues to set on the X11 display protocol, X.Org - the premier implementation - has been forked by a former developer who accuses its maintainers of "abandoning the project, and letting it rot forever."
He's not exactly wrong. X.Org is essentially mothballed. It is an enormous, complicated piece of deprecated infrastructure, with a very limited amount of resources and experienced maintainers. The corporations which sponsor Free Software development don't particularly care about desktop end-users, and the resources which are being spent on desktop experience are largely being spent on Wayland compositors. On the other hand, it appears many of his commits on X.Org were reverted for sloppy management of licensing / attribution, as well as some regressions which were introduced.
It is worth noting that when Wayland was introduced in 2008, X.Org developers were among its biggest advocates and contributors. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now, and the work of building an alternative is mostly complete.
That said, Wayland is not at all a 1 to 1 replacement for X, and like with the introduction of Systemd, there are a lot of people with strong feelings about this, a lot of conspiracy mongers cranking out YouTube slop. People throwing out accusations about how "they" are trying to ruin Linux yet again.
I personally have fond memories of X. Especially in the later days when the whole "unix porn" phenomenon bloomed and there was a sort of renaissance of customization. I miss herbstluftwm terribly. That said, I've been running Wayland for something like 6 years now and I do not really get why people hate it. It works fine, and it actually has a future.
Update:
It's also worth noting the author of this fork is a chud. Some excerpts from the README
This fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to eliminate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.
Together we'll make X great again!
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