That is just so sad that it’s the way you have to do business. Constant praising and sucking up.

I disliked that look back then and I still don’t like it now. After being happy for GNOME, I’ve now moved over to Xfce. Just random info from me.

They also have LinuxZip installed

A thought, as I don’t know the answer, but a lot of these VPN providers provide access to VPN exit nodes in multiple countries. So the VPN app could provide an interface to choose the exit node. And of cause other functionality like reminding you that you need to pay.

Agree - I’m sharing files, not databases…

I agree that there should be a grace period after payments are stopped before they delete stuff. But I see no reason that they should provide you with free access to their service - if you haven’t paid, service is cut off.

But that is just my opinion.

If you pay them to store your files and you then stop paying - should they then provide the service for free?

Still new with Linux as my regular desktop at home, after ditching Windows (kind of), I’m amazed by the level of things I can try to go into a try to make stuff work, that does not do as I want to. But also, annoyed about the level of things that sometimes needs to get tweaked and thinking “why the hell do I need to make these changes” like super fast scrolling in Firefox for whatever reason.

Windows have more or less “just worked” for me for the last 30 years (not remembering anything too critical, always better than every Linux attempt until recently). But I also didn’t treat Windows in a way that I had to reinstall it every 6 months (whatever that causes that). What have gotten me over the tipping point with Windows is all the push for me to subscribe to extra things (OneDrive), use Microsoft things (like Bing, even though I used to use it over Google), Edge trying to trick you into using Edge and copy your stuff from Chrome, and changing defaults to Microsoft apps.

At work I changed to a Mac. I was actually surprise at how many graphics issues I have noticed and other weird minor bugs. The biggest issue here is the keyboard layout when you remote into Windows servers and some modifier keys are mapped differently combined with non-English keyboard layout.

I have tried twice getting a notice of failed payment due to change of banks and therefore change of credit card. But then I gave it the new card’s details and everything was good. However, I don’t remember if I was passed some doomsday deadline or not.

Not saying it’s not an issue and I would consider it bad business for Microsoft to delete users data without proper notifications and a long enough time frame to fix any payment issues. However, deleting data online is not ransomware - if Microsoft deletes the data, then they have nothing to hold ransom.

Oh, I wanted stable system but with latest kernel and gaming stuff

PikaOS is based of Debian Sid, meaning you’re not getting the Debian Stable stability. However, I don’t know anything about how PikaOS uses packages from Debian Sid, so there might be something that makes it more stable than directly using Debian Sid.

What ransomware?

Thank you for the explanation. Makes sense to use the codenames.

Every time I want to contribute to Debian documentation, translation or the like, it feels like the tools and/or bureaucratic process is super heavy and then I just don’t have time for that. It might just be me or that I haven’t found “the way” but other things I can do much easier. Haven’t tried to contributed to Debian Wiki, so that might be easier.

I’m still noob when it comes to running Linux. Debian has always been my favourite - just the philosophy behind it, but also the stability and broad usage. First OS book I read fully was on Debian. Then coming to try using Debian, it failed me (some things didn’t work and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it) multiple times. However, Debian 12 was the turning point and Debian 13 seems to work at least as good.

I would argue that backporting one package does not ruin everything. If you backport a lot of stuff, then I would agree that it changing distrio to something more up-to-date should be considered because of the increase of potential problems.

Novice question: Couldn’t you have switched to Trixie months ago and also don’t have to change to Stable? I thought that would give the same result.

No, no, I would convert the number to a string and just check the last char to see if it was even or not.

Do you apply it to the outside? Then it’s the outside of the glass that gets heated and not your blinds inside your house.

But you don’t see all the people that does not ask for features, but could benefit from them. I worked IT support for years and I often suggested features or different workflow to users because I could see they were doing things that could be done easier.

Except that if people don’t know the feature exists, they might not ask about it. If you see the feature exists and you don’t want it, it is easier to figure out how to turn it off.

There are many feature that are turned on by default - this is just one of them.