Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: AussieEeveeThere is a tiny little warning blended in with all the other white noise on the screen, and blaming Linus is just silly.

TINY? lol - dude, there's TWO explicit warnings, very clearly put, AND info on what exact packages are about to be installed, AND you're asked to type a bloody SENTENCE to get through with it.
If that ain't clear enough then you're not really mature to use a system that gives you full control.

With great powers comes great responsibilities - and that goes for the package managers too. Most definitely.

But if you're after a OS that completely PADS you inside a fuzzy box where you can do nothing to harm you - well then Linux is not, was never and hopefully never will be your right choice.

It's a real shame to see such elitist nonsense being posted here. It's techno jargon in the errors, crammed around lots of overloading info that even "power users" screw up on. There is a reason why the term "sane defaults" even exists. Unless we want Linux on the desktop to continue to be gated by zealots and remain irrelevant, we have to appeal to users who don't have the time and patience to relearn every single thing and study all error messages, just to stop their system breaking.

Nah, this time I strongly believe you are wrong, Liam.

The text was clearly indicating that they were ESSENTIAL packages, if a person doesn't understand a term, in this case what “essential” means, then that person should look that term in a dictionary.

YES, Mr. Sebastian was affected by a flaw in the Linux system that should be fixed (and it is not about APT at all), but also, YES, the youtuber has responsibility in what happened too.

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Quoting: ShmerlWill they release their games for normal desktop Linux too, or they'll remain Stadia exclusive? In general, exclusivity is a bad thing.

At first, maybe; but if they achieve an hegemonic position in the industry, most likely they will not and only release exclusives for their platform.

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No exposure to Microsoft code or reverse-engineering of Microsoft software

Why is that? I'm curious I would have thought that the other way was preferable. (•ิ_•ิ)?

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There is a patch for this already, going trough QA atm: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/cmsjgd/unpatched_kde_vulnerability_disclosed_on_twitter/ew4npbu/ [External Link]

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Improved handling of kernel objects.

I'm curious guys, what does that means?

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Imagine if EA did this. . .

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Looks good, I'm not fan of having trademarks in my face but as long as it isn't the usual ugly case for office or gaming case full of lights I'm good. And I would appreciate a USB port or two in the front, I know those are ugly AF but IMO functionality is much more important than aesthetics when you can't have both.

And Liam, when you say they don't yet ship it outside North America, you are talking specifically about the US or also Canada? I went to check but couldn't find detailed info.

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I'm waiting for AMD to release Ryzen for laptops before buying a new one, is it known if a launch date has been defined yet?

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[center]Here an abstract showcasing some of the most interesting data:[/center]

Gnome is rising while Cinnamon and Unity are waning. The others DE look stable with KDE and Gnome on the head holding 22% and 23% of the pie respectively.

Only 10% claims to never use Wine, while almost 50% said to have used it over the last month.

Gamers think that 8GB of RAM is a thing of the past as more and more of us are upgrading our systems. 16GB looks like the next standard for gaming.

Apparently Ryzen has been a success for AMD, trends show that users are slowly changing their preferences (very slowly). In the GPU department, behaviour is quite similar. Screw you nVidia!

Still, the most used model is GTX 970...

Still want to see that dude/gal's 9 monitor monster. Wonder if he/she is using 1920x1080 on it like the other 61% of mortals.

If one thing hasn't changed is that for Gamin On Linux, a good desktop is the ideal gaming rig. Only a stable 18% use something else to enjoy their games.

Ubuntu vs. Arch, they are on equal ground sharing more than 40% of the pie. What does the future holds for us folks?

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I want to see a photo of how playing on those 9 monitors looks like.

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