I started with Ubuntu (when it was left, right and center in my country) but soon gravitated towards Debian. The old packages can be a pain sometimes ( I even tried running Debian Unstable for sometime and ironically that is quite Stable as well) but other things are quite sane.

The distro isn’t hard to use (though it does not hand hold like Zorin OS, say) compared to likes of Gentoo or Arch and deb packages are quite common (for third party software).

I ultimately(distro hopped a lot) settled on Void Linux but Debian, IMO, is still slightly easier. The only Achilles’ Heel is the woefully sore update cycle since the focus is on stability.

When million dollar AI companies pirate everything in the world

Silence

When one single person pirates something

Jail time

I wish it was available in more parts of the world. I don’t mind the mid range specs (they are decent enough for my use case). The long update cycle plus presence of microSD slot is a good thing. Does it have, by an chance, the good old 3.5 mm Jack as well?

It is not a power profile problem since I have looked into that. Even under normal circumstances, simple stuff like having tons of tabs open cause it to creak. Yes the hardware is not cutting edge but my previous laptop was worse (4 GB Ram) and whilst Linux showed it’s limits then, it never came close to crashing ever. I don’t think my Debian install in the past ever freezed on older laptop.

But it is bonkers on this model.

This issue did not affect my previous laptop. However, under heavy load, my current laptop sometimes freezes and even REISUB sometimes failed to work. The only way is to force power off via button.

This persisted across all distros from Debian based to Fedora to current Void.

Other times, laptop will stutter to a near halt post some complex process and even after said process(like a Handbrake task) is closed, continues to act as if the resources were never freed.

I only used Windows 11 for a single month b/w 2016- current (other wise, distro hopping was default) and it was stable. I can’t pin point the actual root cause (driver issues, kernel level problem) but still persist with Linux (Windows has its own stuff of problems that we all are aware).

There is no one reliable distro. Mint, itself is based off Ubuntu and also releases LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).

If reliablility is measured in terms of how stable a distro is, then likely Debian with it’s conservative approach to packaging updates comes to mind (No wonder large number of distros are based off Debian only).

I would even argue as long as someone isn’t messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon( meant to showcase KDE packages) or Linuxfx (or whatever it has renamed itself to, one of the few shady ones IMO ) or Trisquel OS (a GNU certified distro where running into dependency hell isn’t new); it will suit user’s case.

Debian, Slackware, Void, Zorin, even rolling release like Arch (basically any one that meets the user’s use case is reliable)

Betteridge’s law of headlines strikes again!

There is no way to be sure. Either case, it can be a case of Hanlon’s razor. “Never attribute to malice [in this case: baiting] what can sufficiently be explained by stupidity”.

Amongst the apps mentioned as bloated on Windows were Teams, Discord (major offender) and WhatsApp. The latter is a curious case because a Universal Windows app existed (now being deprecated I guess?) that was more memory efficient than the Web wrapper.

And in case, someone in interested there is a terminal client for WhatsApp (and Telegram) called nchat. Sure, it is not at feature parity with web client (images is a big problem, for obvious reasons) but the simple fact that a third party client taking so little resources exists is a damning indictment of Meta. It shows that resource efficient clients are possible (provided the parent company junks the metaverse).

It is a generic one at a forum. The screenshot is from the comment section of Windows Latest site.

Back in the day on Reddit, some subs had a rule where names had to be blurred or removed. Since then, it is reflex for me to just cut out the author’s name (not that it mattered in this specific case).

If you have Spotify Premium, try a third party client. Even GUI clients like Spotify-qt are memory light [though not at feature parity] whilst terminal clients like ncspot, spotify-player take 1/10th the memory. The latter even supports Spotify connect.

First NSA started snooping, but I didn’t care because it did not affect me.

Then Israel started snooping, but I didn’t care because I was not the target.

Then India followed in the footsteps but I didn’t speak and instead tacitly supported it.

And then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.

The first response is in a satirical vein to the second (immediate below) one. The hiring for complex ML model is a dead giveaway.

state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted

I think it’s called malware.

Sheer uselessness. It will do as much to reduce fraud as the UK law has done to reduce porn content for non adults. What it will mean is that people with multiple SIM, will need to have an always active plan on that number, something telecoms will really like.

Also, it essentially means the death knell for WhatsApp Web (in India) because as stated in article, who wants to log in every SIX hours.

The built in Web browser by default is Chrome but can be configured to be anything else as well ( including Firefox if the user chooses to)

I only got a cookie pop up (though even that can be suppressed with other extension) . I had opened it on Desktop with uBlock Origin. By any chance, did you open on mobile?

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He is also one of the Co founders of Palantir, quite a notorious company.

When I used to be on Windows, I shifted to Process Explorer. It is developed by Microsoft only I guess as part of their Sysinternals suite. I think it retains an older style UI but is significantly more powerful (has/d virus total integration for one).