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This was not exactly unexpected, I've been banging on about exactly this since 2022 when it became obvious that Canonical intends to drag linux into a snap walled garden one way or another. By 26.04 they will have made it impossible to install deb files at all because of changes they have made to &q...

https://www.osnews.com/story/139462/mic ... rocessing/

Sort of inevitable really.

Disguised with a load of microsoft feature doublespeak, but it is only going one way.

We are just entering the first spell of dry weather (more than 2 days without rain) since October last year. It does seem very strange, the lawn is not waterlogged, the lakes that have formed in fields starting to dry up, soon they'll stop overflowing onto the roads - so they'll be dry. Potholes wil...

Given that Softmaker is a German company and that Softmaker Office is far less alien (to an MS Office user) than LibreOffice - and is better with MS Office files - I am puzzled that they didn't go down that route. OK there's a cost but it is a well supported product and I reckon a good deal was to b...

Cue Bob Marley!

There's Q4OS version of 22.04 Quark + Trinity https://sourceforge.net/projects/quark- ... o/download

It's not so much a process of conversion as gradual slide. For example our road distances are in miles, but the BBC have decided that for broadcast purposes we use metres/kilometres as well. We buy fuel in litres but still use mpg (miles per gallon) as a measure of fuel efficiency - well lets face i...

With October 25 looming I can see that they're possibly trying to tap in to the potentially huge market of folks who would like to get off the M$ adver-go-round and keep using their perfectly good hardware for a few more years. I would not be surprised to see other attempts in the coming months. Tro...

Well, I had a look and it was quite an experience. Had a look at the Cinnamon/W10 version as these days I'm running Mint LMDE6. To my mind Wubuntu is a waste of time, energy and effort. Oh and the font rendering sucks big time. That may be because the fonts are not actually defined....but it was not...