Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next

• oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  … the offical linux shop I understand that Linyos Torovoltos grew up under communism and originally couldn’t legally sell Lunix – but the Soviets lost the cold war.

  I’d rather spend a few bucks for a legitimate copy than risk installing some virus infested illegal version I found on some sketchy website.

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  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I went to your second link and I think it gave me a virus. I keep having these verbal tics now.

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    • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      blahaj.zone

      I’m afraid that you’re well past any hope of removing Arch from your life. The best that can be done is managing your install. I suggest sequestering Arch to an old Thinkpad to slow its spread.

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• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Red Hat.

  The other distros? No idea.

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I knew someone was going to come back with Red Hat. I just didn’t expect it to be you!

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    • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hey even I use Linux daily.

      Actually, I’m not really sure why “even I” should be shocking. I write code for a living. Surely I should be using Linux once in a while.

      Anyway RHEL is probably the only Linux distro I can think of that costs money and comes with support. The major cloud providers sometimes have their own Linux distros they use as well (looking at you, Amazon) and you can argue they are selling Linux, but not as directly as RHEL does.

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      • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’d like to go back to KDE Neon, but it doesn’t play nice with thermals on my Surface.

        (and I totally expect you to be a Linux user … why haven’t you bragged about using Arch yet?)

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• RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have an official Ubuntu CD, but I think it was just a donation, or maybe a “pay shipping” thing.

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