The moment I can get a laptop-style RISC-V device with virtualisation support I’m doing it. Double bonus if I can actually use it as my daily driver.

It doesn’t - that’s the point.

I would guess that they’ll be sourcing a next-gen RISC-V processor ASAP, since those will enable virtualisation. If they stick one in a laptop shell I’d probably buy it pretty quickly. Doubly so if it has EFI.

Oh I think we all know why…

Art isn’t open source, right?

I’m sure I’ll get shouted down for this suggestion by the haters, but I’m going to make it anyway because it’s actually really good:

Use an Ubuntu LTS flavour like Kubuntu. Then, add flatpak and for apps you want to keep up to date, install either the flatpak or the snap, depending on the particular app. In my personal experience, sometimes the flatpak is better and sometimes the snap is better. (I would add Nix to the mix, but I wouldn’t call it particularly easy for beginners.)

This gets you:

1. A reliable Debian-like base that you only have to upgrade to new releases every 2 years
2. Up-to-date apps, including confinement for those apps
3. New kernels every 6 months (if you choose - you don’t have to, though)

If there were an occasional thing where I looked at it and thought “wait, is this Loss?” that would be funny. But I see them way too frequently for them to be funny. They need to be subtle and occasional, taking one off guard. Instead they’re frequent and unsubtle.

This is why we should be ranching echidnas.

I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to reveal to the world that your butt is an outie

Can confirm. I once ate in my lab and accidentally ate a capacitor I absent-mindedly thought was a piece of broccoli.

Lol imagine a canonical employee using nixos

Fun is scheduled between 10:00 and 14:30.

Unfortunately not

I also wanted to do this when my cat sent by Steam Deck flying across the room and cracked the screen

Surely it’s named after the octets it edits?

My favourite Euphorbia

Uhh this is a bottle stopper

And they’re providing Ubuntu for free. If you were a paying customer and the contract you’d signed with them said they’d provide Firefox as a deb, that would be a different situation.

I agree, but unfortunately our opinions don’t move a gazillion finance bros

over the course of a few updates, they replaced half of your programs with snaps (without telling you),

You don’t need to lie. A full list of debs that have been transitioned to snaps is:

• Firefox
• Thunderbird
• Chromium

as you can see on other comments I’m not alone with that stance.

Being in the majority doesn’t necessarily make one right, as shown by [insert election result you disagree with here]. But if you actually are serious about that, you do realise how entitled it sounds to demand that someone do free work for you in the particular way you want it done?

And I believe you mean prerogative.