At least for a long time, you had to set up RPMFusion to be able to play media, and having the additional repos tended to break on major upgrades for a bit after release

So, for beginners, it was a bit painful to suggest

That’s what I’m using these days at home

Only thing to keep in mind is that it won’t give you a notification when you need to do a major version update (pretty consistently every 2 years)

Probably less of an issue these days; they relaxed their stance on proprietary drivers:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/debian-linux-accepts-proprietary-firmware-in-major-policy-change/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

The moving parts are in the device rather than the cable with Lightning. The tongue on USB-C is required to be deep enough that you can’t torque it with the cable during insertion/removal.

It’s not an obvious comparison, but the mechanical engineers where I work seem to have a mild preference for USB-C

The expensive part of both is that you need a microcontroller in the cable

USB-C also has way more pins for data/power

In the US, I could count on a single hand the number of Hollywood movies my coworkers have talked about in the last two years

They’re also required in chili competitions, so…

Traditional Red - no beans

Verde - no beans

Homestyle - requires beans, and they must be “clearly visible on the top”

People’s choice - requires beans

You can compete in traditional/Verde, but are generally required to also make one with beans for peoples choice: https://chilicookoff.com/uploads/2025-26-ICS-Chili-Rules.pdf

I currently do, maybe not twice, but about 20% more to avoid them

I also refuse to buy several cheaper car companies because of ads I saw years ago, and bought a more expensive car for my wife to avoid them

I don’t know the price difference, but there’s also a toilet paper brand I will never buy

I’m sure lots of ads work on me, but if your ad is annoying enough, I will pay significantly more to your competitor

If your motherboard manufacturer releases firmware through LVFS, you can use

sudo fwupdmgr refresh --force sudo fwupdmgr update

But that should normally be offered through the GNOME or KDE update utility.

I’m assuming your motherboard manufacturer doesn’t support updating through the OS (or hasn’t released a new enough AGESA build) based off your issue

Cynically, isn’t this just because Debian did it with Trixie, so now Ubuntu’s next version is pulling in the change?

You’ve updated your motherboard’s firmware to a version that includes the fix?

What issue are you having from the missing instruction?

The reason I don’t recommend it by default is that there is no updater across releases.

The official upgrade process is to modify apt sources files and run upgrade, then full-upgrade, etc.

That’s fine for me but it makes it hard to recommend to people who may not be as willing to deal with modifying system files and reading some upgrade notes

I think mech@feddit.org is right, but one other piece I’ve heard is that “unmanaged” desktops make things like randsomware insurance harder

Although compliance is also a concern.

For us, on our Linux machines, they pay Canonical or RedHat for workstations 🤷‍♂️

Back in 2015, I was using Arch on a single core Intel Atom 1.5GHz processor with 1GiB of RAM

Most packages came from binary packages, and the AUR was the exception when I needed something specific outside of the main repos

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned…

Slack was taking a big market share over MS Lync

Microsoft rebranded to Teams and gave it away /for free/ to companies, getting them to decide “well, it covers enough basic features… We can save x million dollars/year”

Without thinking about what happens once Teams is the standard

Osmand~ and CoMaps (fork of Organic Maps) use the same map data, but different rendering/routing engines.

Osmand~ is everything and the kitchen sink. Any feature you can think of, it probably has

CoMaps is just the basics for 85% of people. It’s much simpler, its map drawing is much faster (no lag while waiting for tiles/branches/labels like Osmand), and much faster on-device routing than Osmand.

Their point was Cyberpunk was announced in 2012, and the first playable build was 2.0 in 2023…

Although cyberpunk is certainly harder to implement being a 3d high res game vs a 2d platformer

Just a heads up, you should just need the group set up

That is crazy that you weren’t added to it by default, though.

I was also surprised - you used to be able to modify a user’s group membership through the System Settings GUI. That’s a huge missing piece that you can’t do that anymore

I dont know your specific network topology, but I’ve always been able to use openconnect rather than Cisco’s client

network-manager-openconnect for NM support

Support for higher levels of ARM SystemReady seem like they’re poorly supported in the Linux ecosystem right now.

ARM boards nearly always require a devicetree entry for that specific board.

This may not be entirely a Linux problem, but my understanding is that some of the x1 elite laptops we’ve seen DeviceTree entries added in the Linux kernel are using SystemReady ES or SystemReady SR on Windows