Endless has a major update, KDE continues to innovate, Ubuntu backtracks on Wayland, O’Reilly trolls Félim, System76 and Tuxedo make some distros, and more on LNL 15.
News
Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22
KDE Stash virtual folder for dumping files from all about your directories, Snaps added to KDE Discover, Vulkan support added to QT 5.10
Ubuntu Is Now Uncertain about Using Wayland by Default
O’Reilly exits direct book sales
LetsEncrypt offering wildcard certs in 2018
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Linux hardware sellers’ own distros
With the recent news that System76 and Tuxedo Computers are making their own Ubuntu-based distros we discuss whether they actually are distros and whether they should even exist.
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Joe — Just FYI as a long-time XFCE user I’m enjoying KDE, I had a number of crashes with XFCE while using my editors (mostly Atom or Visual Studio code, both electron-based editors and both open source native linux) while in XFCE Xubuntu 16.04. NO crashes at all with KDE, and its a very nice environment. I use a Mac all day at work and its very Mac like, so the environment is very nice.
I can see your wisdom in only booting legacy mode; I had UEFI Secure boot running on my laptop to support Windows 10, long story I had to pay $50 to get the bios reset by having the laptop CMOS battery removed to get rid of the bios password (which naturally I lost).
Three lessons: 1. If all Windows versions are horrid, Windows 10* is easily the worst and will screw up your system upon adding ram and the like. 2. Always commit to open standards, legacy mode bios, and being able to do what you want to your computer. 3. Write down your passwords in a journal. Its worth the extra bucks to spend on something nice you can find and remember.
Love the show, looking forward to trying Solus soon.
Windows 10 constantly threw ads at me — it really was awful.
Felim, there are still some other DRM-free publishers like Manning, Pragmatic, and Packt, so you don’t have to give up on books entirely.
Yeah, but Packt haven’t always been as good, Pragmatic just doesn’t cover any areas of interest. I’ll take a look into Manning. It just seems like a major dick move. Sure it’s accountants driving it but my rage has yet to subside. Le sigh.
Hello from Argentina.
I really enjoy your show, thanks for doing it.
I am writing to this episode just to say I am using Solus since a year and a half and I am very happy with it. It is stable, has good performance and Budgie is beautiful. Truth is that has a couple of things that can be improved. The windows switch (aka (yes aka or a.k.a. hehehe) alt-tab;ok we have one now, I missed it, but I can’t do alt-shift-tab to switch backwards), and some specific packages that are not in repos. But they are minor issues really. I love Solus!
But to be honest… In my parents PCs (they live in other city, I help them through TeamViewer) I installed Mint Mate ( yes, another Debian-Ubuntu base distro)… This way I get rid of problems on packages in repo and certain compatibility issues.
Thanks.