It used to be somewhat better: Corel Linux and Creative apps existed…

Thank you for the info! Otherwise I would have missed the deal. The affinity suite is the best thing since Photoshop 5.0

2008 ultimate

I’m still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.

Thanks I might try that. Unfortunately I can’t mount everything at boot, because that would take forever with some slow NAS around the network.

Yeah, though I presume I’d need to set xdg values so mounted shares through nautilus will show up in programs/interfaces. I’ll look into it, thanks.

How on earth can people stand using Windows full time? Everything I’m on a Microsoft product I feel claustrophobic!

Isn’t it a feature when Windows is gone?! 🤷😵‍💫

It’s more of a double edged sword: snaps were great imho when they replaced the mess of old we had going on with thirty or so incompatible ppas.

But why force snaps for central stuff like FF/Chromium and soon Thunderbird?

I just upgraded an old PC and reinstalling Ubuntu meant that all my configs of these apps and then some broke. Snap is using incompatible storage for dotfiles and configurations. And more often than not central Desktop functions like the cursors (atm no hand cursor in FF for me!), sound and common extensions don’t work ootb. For the odd piece of speciality sw I’d had to go hunting for before that’s alright. But not for everyday stuff

Come on canonical, don’t enshittify you great distribution…

Genau so ist es! Und was brauchen wir für eine funktionierende Infrastruktur? Genau: Arbeitskräfte! Und woher bekommen wir die? In meiner Branche gehen in den kommenden zehn Jahren 3x mehr Menschen in den Ruhestand als demografisch nachkommen. Ohne Einwanderung sind wir doch am ****$&#@

For me the direct opposite is true. About two years ago Google stopped giving me any accurate results, feeding me a bunch of semi-related garbage instead. DuckDuckGo feels like the Google of old: results that actually (literally) contain the terms of the query and not much else. I’d hate using the internet without it.

Honestly all this feels like the railway’s Dieselization 100yrs ago. When the end of steam powered engines was drawing near, coal hauling railroads and Baldwin Locomotive in the U.S. tried all kinds of whacky and hilariously inefficient engine designs, just to keep the ol’ ways alive… none of these worked out - everyone who stuck to it lost hugely. Viz. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_class_M-1

Hegel

Leider ist das Schreiben gerade für Senior:innen ein großes Problem. Das sollte nicht legal sein.

I won’t be buying. I got into refurbishing old quality peripherals a while ago, might not need any new and neutered devices.

Soo… Bye Logitech, it was good while it lasted with you.

You know that abebooks is a subsidiary of Amazon, right? As is ZVAB in Europe. They really have the market by the reins.

Er hat gesagt, dass ich dumm bin!

Wenn du versuchst daran zu denken Nicht daran zu denken das du dumm bist Obwohl du nicht dumm bist Was hast du dann gedacht? Hä?-Hä!

Who cares? Oh, all of you … Ahem - have fun then, I guess