I hope we don’t see that in Canada. We definitely looked that way last election but the yellow party had a pretty weak showing and the red party took a lot of votes to prevent the blue party from winning. Hopefully things reset a bit next election.

I mean only Linux as the product is released with only Linux offered by the company, as in not a choice between Windows and Linux. Linux first by design.

And Lenovo, I saved $100 and the time to setup Ubuntu on my Thinkpad. But I’m picturing something that is Linux only and a major release like a Chromebook or the Steam Deck were/are.

For the education sector and software developer sector these numbers are already met and well exceeded. For the consumer desktop, yes, I think so. I think some big company other than Valve and Google will sell a Linux desktop machine, be it x86 or ARM. When most of the stuff consumers use is through the browser, OEMs clinging to Windows is not going to last forever.

Masking take and permanent marker or pen works too if you don’t have electical tape.

Don’t need to open the case. Hold the soldering iron on the light until light goes out.

A 10 year old high end or midrange PC isn’t even that slow today. Perfectly usable

Bluetooth have been kinda crap but also HDMI audio devices have been buggy. Analog in/out (3.5mm) has always worked for me.

On the flip side, reading about an exploited vulnerability in a package and then realizing your machine isn’t affected because Debian has an outdated package in it’s repo

Ubuntu is always trying to sell you stuff by forcing it into random unrelated conversations

There’s a way to avoid this, I did it on my machine. I have no idea how to replicate it so this is me every time I use a different machine.

That money might be better spent on a few spare pixels

It depends where you live if you need a VPN or not.