Actually, if Linux/BSD/… doesn’t work the way I want it to, I can always tweak it. Win or Mac? Tough luck. So Linux’s usability is always there, whereas the proprietary OS’s quickly hits a very hard, annoying wall.

I had the Mandrake Powerpack that came with two books. I basically memorized the entire console handbook while on the loo…

Gretlat that they’re making progress! aTM windows still flicker or fail to show content. I’d love to use it in production later this year maybe …

I am dependent on a couple of programs I run via wine - and wine still isn’t directly compatible with wayland and buggy with xwayland…

It’s actually worse! Last jan Microsoft bricked the entire fleet of laptops in my company with a borked generic driver update. It overwrote the sd reader’s vendor driver blocking all storage access from working whatsoever. From one week to another more or less all devices refused to boot. They basically killed our entire company for half a week, until IT could walk people through efi-disabling the sd reader in every laptop (recent industrial models mind you) just because windows had pulled in the wrong driver. So… no - it’s not great at all with automatic driver installation in windows …

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…

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