Yeah, but in general, people who run Windows don’t use Grub.

Well, I’m at least glad to see that their sign isn’t running Windows.

You need to go around the pasture and eradicate the burr plants with prejudice.

Trust me, it’s for your own benefit. It’s much easier to remove burrs from the pasture than it is to remove them from your horse.

They may be quite different under the hood … but when they both run much of the same open source software and even the same desktop environment, the actual difference that a user sees isn’t all that significant. From the perspective of a non-techie user, Linux and BSD could be practically indistinguishable.

I replaced my girlfriend’s old Windows PC with one running Ubuntu. Pretty much no issues so far.

it’s like a painter not knowing what different brushes are for

IMO, a better analogy would be a painter who doesn’t know whether he’s painting on canvas, paper, or a wall.

And, as usual, instead of actually going after child abusers, they’ll use it to stalk their ex.

The cops would still need a reference photo to compare to though and they aren’t getting into my house for that shit.

That’s not what it’s for.

The purpose of this is to take your social media post of you standing with a gun and a sign that says ‘all cops must die’, and then using the background of that photo to identify and locate your house.

which is like going to work by horse

Much cheaper and more environmentally sustainable?

That’d be stupid because it wont go away.

It doesn’t need to go away. Just continue to ignore it.

It’s just an office suite, one that’s already fully functional and works great. It doesn’t need AI. Rejecting AI won’t hurt them at all, even in the very long term.

lalalalala

Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing for lalalalalalala AI to say lalalala. Have fun with the lalalalala training lalala data!

Reduced on appeal to $20, an apology letter, and 3 hours of community service.

Somebody should make a porno based on this. It could be a good porno.

a screenshot of a meme generator (so it doesn’t include watermark)

Why the fuck have I never thought of that?

I did get a chromebook … and then I put Linux on it.

(Not bad for a $0.50 purchase.)

If you want a stable system that just works, that doesn’t require tinkering and closely monitoring updates, and those are your only two choices? Yeah, Ubuntu is a much better choice than Arch.

I do not. No idea how this interacts with swap encryption.

You’re going to run into issues with your motherboard’s SATA or NVME (or PCIE) controller throughput well before you get close to actual RAM speeds.

Once you reach that bottleneck, the speed won’t increase anymore when you add more drives. The motherboard architecture just doesn’t support accessing any kind of storage device at that speed.

If you don’t actually need the swap, Linux isn’t going to make use of swap.

Eh, yes and no.

It will offload things from RAM into swap in order free up RAM space for disk cache. Which is kind of a weird reversal when you think about it, loading your RAM contents onto disk so that you can load your disk contents onto RAM. But by doing this to idle processes in order to disk cache files you’re likely to use soon, the system does become significantly faster and more responsive.

Yep. That’s why it can be nice to just have like an old 1TB drive completely used for swap. Things might get slow once it exceeds your physical memory, but at least it will eventually finish successfully – no out of memory crashes here!