Wait for the distro to officially release an upgrade path. Only do a fresh install if it doesn’t work.
On Windows however whenever I would get a new pc in which I was prepping for staff(I worked in IT) the first thing I’d do after unboxing it is a wipe of the factory Windows install and do a clean install with the latest ISO from Microsoft.
No bloatware, network managers, anti virus etc nonsense. We had all of our own stuff for that which applied via Group Policy anyway.
Too much fuss about nothing. Samsung just want to be sure that they aren’t getting ripped off on warranty repairs and that they have an accurate idea of the devices repair history. Especially with 4 - 7 years OS support on new models, that phone will likely belong to several owners over the years.
When I worked in Telecoms back in 2005 - 2008, Samsung had the very best repair centres. Out of all the OEM’s their repairs were the fastest and the best quality and if a phone went in for repair more than twice, they would replace it on the third repair with a brand new unit.
Could not say that about Nokia, HTC, Sony Ericsson or Motorola. (There was no iPhone yet in my country at that time)
Gnome Foundation likes to think of themselves as the pioneer in DE’s and the default choice for Linux. Which was true for a long time. Cinnamon and Mate run Gnome, for example. I’m not sure about XFCE.
If you’re THE leading DE project at least try to accommodate those DE’s that depend on your code or meet with them to inform them well in advance and discuss the best options for those DE’s.
In other words, work together for the good of all users instead of doing your own little thing in the corner and leave the others to deal with the mess you made…
Purposely breaking backwards compatibility knowing full well that other FLOSS DE’s rely on it is enshitification of the worst kind.
We all lose in the end.
The enshitification of Gnome continues until it be it’s own little isolated thing and previous gnome code will have to be forked to make progress that users actually want.
That will probably go for gnome apps eventually. The Mint guys might have to rewrite all the bloody apps to work with gnome 3…🤦
To quote Clem, head of Linux Mint: “At a time where GNOME applications are less and less designed to work anywhere else than in GNOME, a project like XApp is extremely important.”
Libaidwata breaks backward compatibility with older gnome versions and amongst other things doesn’t allow theming natively, so the Cinnamon team are going to have to fork off and maintain the older code which works so they can continue to have theming and stuff with Gnome apps.
Gnome seem to like doing the opposite of the Linux philosophy which says interoperability should always be a priority so that the code can be shared as freely as possible.
I can’t tell whether they are stupid or lazy over at Gnome. It’s not enough to strip the DE down to nothing but now even the code that worked with previous, gnome still widely used, is being dumped.
They are a little island unto themselves.
We have this already. It’s called Ubuntu + Gnome
Grey suits. Where have I seen that before?🤔
I saw a documentary recently where they show how virtually all the worlds brands are owned by BlackRock as the largest shareholder.
BlackRock has 4 major shareholders: Rothschild’s, Du Pont, Rockefeller and one other I forgot. Rothschild’s holds the larger share.
The same Rothschilds who boast about creating the state of Israel.
Whatever you use, Apple, Google, Coke, Pepsi, Amazon, Boeing, Airbus, whichever car you can name, they basically own it. And all your money goes to them.
It’s near impossible to escape their grasp. So don’t waste your time unless you self host at home or find truly independent alternatives.
Nope. In Linux the typical action is to immediately get a fix out ASAP and be done with it.
Plus it’s unlikely that AntiVirus would actually make any difference. Even in Windows many things go undetected. All it does is bog down your system
I think we all saw this coming. But the worst part is this: they want to replace white collar jobs like Developers, Managers, Architects, Engineers etc - all the educated people.
Whereas it should be used to replace manual labour jobs in conjunction with robotics to spare humans doing heavy and dangerous labour, freeing them to go study and get white collar jobs. Thereby improving society and raising people on the bottom, to the middle and beyond.
Instead they are cutting down the top and the middle, making these people jobless and poor thereby increasing the poverty!
Just so that a few billionaires can get even richer! It’s disgusting!
Blame everyone but themselves and their greed… Interesting how Ai never replaces the CEO or The Board…🤔
It’s just a big money grab! Everyone is trying to get rich quick. Like with the App Store. Everyone is hoping their bot breaks into the big time and makes them rich.
This is what is terrible about society. Few are making bits that help people, they make bots that appeal to the base desires. A race to the bottom if you will…will man ever learn???
Wrong. According to the companies who pay for iOS and Android exploits in other to make tools like Pegasus, they say it is far harder to get a working android exploit than it is too get a working iOS exploit and as a result they pay more for Android exploits because ios exploits are far more common.
Why is this? Because Google has an Android security team that actively seeks exploits and patches them and Google also invites people to Hackathons and pays them for exploits.
Android is now harder than iOS.
https://www.wired.com/story/android-zero-day-more-than-ios-zerodium/
Yes, very good. It’s made them stronger and better than ever. If they can find a good solution to the Gapps issue they could sell in the West.
It would have been Huawei occupying this spot a few years ago already but after Trump blocked Google from giving them access to Gapps and selling in the US, they lost massive market share.
But they were well on track to overtake everyone. And they are actually on the rise again, even without Gapps so let’s see what happens next
Hardware is the same across the board. PC’s have equally good hardware… Literally only the aluminium body is still unique to apple but the internal components are the same as any other OEM.
I work in IT, so I’ve seen alot of hardware from many OEMs including Apple.
I’ve had 15+ year old PCs running XP on the same box and still being used daily to run a CNC machine… They can’t be replaced because the software was never updated by the developer to run on anything else. But the hardware is rock solid.
Exactly. It should say “lease” instead of “buy” or just “price” .
They know that too but you know why they don’t use “lease”? They would have WAY less sales. Almost no one would click that.
So they use “buy”/“price” to make you think you own it, and then think they are clever when they define it as “buying a licence” in the Terms.
That’s plain and sneaky so I don’t feel sorry for them when people pirate stuff.
I wish every dev had the option of “go to my website and buy this from me with an eternal licence included” as well as the option to lease it from the Play Store.
Same goes for music and movies.
Yes but the android phone will still work fine for at least the next decade and all apps on the play store will still work on that phone for the next decade.
On apple, if you never update your phone, eventually you won’t be able to update or install apps because they require a version on iOS you’re not on. We don’t have this problem on android. Most android apps can run on Android 6 and up.
We are now on Android 14. 6 was a very long time ago…
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