Same with Dell. They have (had?) a fairly hidden way to order *any* laptops with Linux (ubuntu). I've bought a few this way, both personal and for work. But last month I tried and couldn't find where they'd hidden the option.

I wonder how many hard drives they add every day to their datacenters... And if they have access to crazy 100Tb prototype HDs already...

Related question: can I, as an average consumer, have random foods or other tested by a serious lab for any pollutants ? Salad from the garden, mushroom from the forest, dirt from the top of the cupboard, air from the room, water from the tap, etc... Can I pack up samples and send them to a lab somewhere for an affordable analysis ?

I recently had the bad experience of not being able to print anymore on several Kubuntu systems. After a lengthy investigation I figured out that there's now a cupsd in snap installed as a dependency of Chromium. If you also have the normal cupsd, they conflict somehow and printing fails. Remove the snap cupsd and things work again. Let me just say this: that's dumb as fuck ! Who had the bright idea of duplicating critical core functionalities ?!? And not even test them !?!

Yeah, snap is annoying. But I've been on Kubuntu since version 4 I think, and on several systems. Overall it's been a fairly even ride.

Or wait a few days, it's not like your life depends on it.

Last month I couldn't print anymore. On 4 laptops and 2 different networks and 5 or so printers. Jobs would just disappear as if printed. Printers would wake but never print anything. I spent hours on the problem before finding an obscure reddit answer about a duplicate cupsd service running in snap, in addition to the systemctl one. I removed it (and Chromium of which it was a dependency but which I never used) and lo and behold it started working again. So, yeah, fuck snap.

Well, some old projects still use the old nomenclature.

See, and that's where you lost half of your users already. I've been using git for years, SVN before that, CVS before that. And I'm still lost at the most basic things when using git with more than just me on the project. Did modifications in 'masters' which is blocked to write and should have been in a new branch to be merged later ? Oh shit.

And now that someone does something about, they see that it goes catastrophically worse in no time flat. Complex problems rarely have simple solutions.

They might both be, I don't know, but one doesn't impact anyone else, while the other is like a metastatic cancer trying to contaminate everyone around it.

You forgot the white nationalists... GOP = Billionnaires + Evangelicals + KKK. What a throuple made in heaven...

Except for all the grift that went on. I wonder how much his insider trading friends ran away with ? And all the goodwill that was lost along the way. And also, do you think 'allied' countries are going to trust the US for anything now ?

Want a good Linux laptop ? Purchase a used 3yo high-end laptop. Put Linux on it (it takes about 10 minutes nowadays). Now you have a good Linux Laptop that cost at most 1/5th of an Apple and will last for another 10 years.