the people behind the appimage spec at https://appimage.org/
… have a listing of available software at https://appimage.github.io/
note that this isn’t a curated repository like your os repos, but rather a directory of community-provided submissions that pass some basic automated tests.
it’s been over a decade since canonical ended that little ‘experiment’ with azn.
afaik, it’s strictly opt-in. further reading: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-insights-how-telemetry-is-changing-on-ubuntu-desktop/73442
although they’ll still see web traffic from your system if you hit their mirrors for updates and package installs–as would be the case anywhere online.
2 months. lts or not, ubuntu’s freeze date is and has historically been about two months before release.
if the 2 year cycle between lts is too long for someone, they don’t have to stay on that ride.
just a reminder, kubuntu uses a different installer than ubuntu–one that offers btrfs (timeshift compatible configuration) out-of-the-box, as well as a choice of install type.
the ‘minimal’ option is not much more than the base kde environment. no snaps, no snapd installed. hell, it doesn’t even have a web browser (instructions for mozilla’s own repository is here
the daily builds were a trainwreck here leading up to the release, but somehow it all sorted out at the end. my test installs of release (ubuntu, cinnabun, studio, kde) went ok… with only a few minor issues, like the blueman applet crash in cinnamon.
kwik trip (upper-midwest us) has both roasted and fried chicken. neither is cheap, but they got it.
yup. once it reaches the threshold, the congressional and legal battles that follow will likely keep it from ever actually taking effect without a constitutional amendment.
i think gnome, suitably configured, is a great choice for a basic pc or chromebook|box alternative. simple windows, fewer options to get lost in or to screw up, big fat launcher buttons for the one or very few things that’ll ever get run. throw in atomic updates and flatpak only applications, and it’s near perfect for these users.
and if you have a potato pc, read s-l-o-w-e-r
i’m not even recommending 8gb laptops to most users anymore… especially not ones with soldered ram that are stuck with only that.
it won’t. ubuntu’s announcement pertains to the extra demands of gnome, their flagship release, and it’s default configuration.
mint doesn’t ship a gnome spin, and cinnamon, mate and xfce are lighter-weight… and mint is not dependent upon snaps, nor is it even configured oob with snap support enabled.
latest Gnome desktop, modern web browsers, and typical multitasking workflows
so use a lighter-weight de (xfce, lxqt, budgie), and don’t go crazy with brower tabs or open applications, and you’ll be ok… like you’re probably already doing now if you’ve got a ‘marginal’ pc.
that’s probably per ‘household’ not ‘per line’ or ‘per person’.
i’ve still got an ‘emachines’ here. granted, nothing inside is original anymore, except the optical with the curved silver bezel. has an am3 board in it now (originally a barton core on nvidia chipset). i keep it around because it has ide ports… and yes, i do use those. had to dig it out twice in the last month.
that’s a different thing. chromium edge has always had the ‘load at startup’ option (enabled by default, of course)… to make ‘loading’ it when you do run it, ‘faster’.
this new innovation will launch the actual browser window, too.
I only had 360kbit/s for a while
they still sell dsl that slow here… and of course the telephone company charges those people even more than they do in town for 20-60mbit dsl or 100-1000mbit fiber.
there’s a few projects for running windows in a container… winboat and winapps are a couple that come to mind. dunno if they’re ready for ‘prime time’ yet. interesting concept, though.
made me look over to the office door to see if it was the same as the one i’ve had up here for over twenty-five years…
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