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Nope, this is “Your system ran out of memory and now this program isn’t reacting anymore (it’s trying to allocate memory but there is no free memory left). Please stop the program or try to get rid of some of its subprocesses to free up memory.”

Canonical is basically the closed to corporate Linux you will find on the free distro market… They are pushing stuff you don’t want for marketing reasons (for example their own proprietary Snaps when a better working open source solution already exists with Flatpack), love their telemetry (can be mostly disabled for now, but given the defaults and their other behavior we can already see where this is heading) and in general decide more alongside their latest business plan than actually making sense or listening to users.

But that’s okay as it’s rolling release and unlike other distros you only need to do it exactly once…

My first thought was: So Slackware works very well but is ugly as hell?

But those aren’t affected usually. For them it’s about stability because their certification processes are a lot of work and they won’t risk any interruptions unless absolutely necessary. So they actually pay a lot of money for support beyond the normal EOL.

That’s because the drivers are bullshit but not the problem in general. They work well for some very specific cards, not at all for other and in general it’s just random hit or miss.

And then, to make it more fun, not all wayland compositors are born equal either.

Basically yes. Or: the term is fine; in the eyes of people who never heard or thought about its racist origin.

And your were entirely on the right track when your first comment started with explaining the origin first. When that’s your starting point and you then get the response “But I’ve been saying it for years”, it’s probably far more successful to go with “Yes, but it can be offensive for people knowing its origin, so why not use available alternative terms?” than with “bro it’s been fucking racist for years”. In one case people have a high chance on thinking about it, in the other they will instictively feel attacked and get defensive about it.

I just don’t understand why people are attached to it

Because words aren’t racist, people and opinions and sentiments expressed by them are.

When the term ricing is used for so long and 95%+ of people don’t know where it came from and have zero negative connotations associated with it, your argument (from their perspective) sounds like this:

“Don’t use the term, by its obscure origin you didin’t even know about it is racist”

“I’ve been saying it for years without any racism intended nor perceived”

“bro it’s been you are being a fucking racist for years”

And then you are surprised by the negative reaction…

Correct. There are still games that don’t work because there is actual work being done to make them not work.

I wonder where the problem is… must be Linux’ fault.

There’s probably a chameleon there, but well camouflaged…

You just type ZZ… then the program assumes you fell asleep trying to exit and stops.

I’m still waiting for more distributions to include it to replace my old 3A+ home server.

That’s defintiely the wrong title.

No, it’s not the user catching Linux in trying to pretend user friendliness witht the terminal.

It’s Linux catching the user in still hating it when he gets the wanted user friendliness, for the sole reason of being conditioned to hate the terminal.

Of course not. There is a market for investing very little for some cheap malware and then putting it out there, waiting for the small amount of people (out of a billion of desptop users) falling for it. Also you go for the weakest link in defense, so scamming random desktop users is rarely a technical feat. It usually exploits the human, not the system.

But we also all know how money is actually distributed. So millions of random users being scammed for some money is still not the high reward scenario a server is. Much more work is invested there because the rewards are so much higher. And yet even then you often target people as the weak link. System security for a company is mainly user security. Teaching them to not fall for for scams as an entry way to the system. And there are a lot of professionals that basically made this their own social science of how I convey those things the best, how I enforce and regularly refresh those lessons, how to make people stick to best practices.

Are you trying to tell me this all happens in parallel to a technical server structure that actually isn’t that safe but rarely exploited because nobody could be bothered to check for vulnerabilities as it’s just Linux and the adoption rate is low?

The cruder the malware, the better your chances of running successfully in Wine.

Because throwing together some simple executable using inbuild windows functions is much easier than programming something well-build and hidden based on deeper system layers. So your random “I just encrypted all your files because you clicked this .exe, now send me bitcoin to get it back”-bullshit might work well on wine (which is why wine should be run as it’s own user with no priviledges to access anything but your Windows programs).

Also there is no incentive for companies to fix an exploit quickly. They will only release the fix with some scheduled update anyway or else people might notice that there was something worth fixing and that’s bad for your stock price.

Malware for desktop users is the low hanging fruit with little rewards. You just hear about it because it’s so rediculous easy.

The real money is on servers, so that’s were real money/work is invested to develop malware for much higher gains. How successful are they again?

Distrowatch’s source for popularity is how often the different distros are clicked on on their own homepage… which has the toplist featured prominantly on the start page.

So their ranking completely and utterly worthless, as it’s prone to manipulation and once you basically pushed your distro to the high spots it’s guaranteed to stay there as a rarely used but highly rated distro is of course attracting more clicks from people wanting to know what it’s actually about… see: MX Linux being on their #1 spot forever.

I could never get myself to using a track ball. An ergonomic mouse on the other hand…

I know they officially don’t. And I didn’t try to say that Sway was bad in any way or that it is their fault. I was just stating facts about state of it with NVIDIA graphics (that kept me -as a long-term i3 user- from switching to Wayland).