When the US government demands that System76 hands over all info they have on the people who use their products, or decides to ban access to US software from countries Trump has decided in his mind are “playing unfair”, let’s see how far PopOS being FOSS takes us.

It is Linux! Honestly mentioning SUSE was a mistake since most people aren’t gonna use that. That would be for enterprises or government.

OpenSUSE, particularly openSUSE Aeon is the one I would use if I wasn’t too knowledgeable about Linux. It just works out of the box, and it’s an atomic distro so a lot of the guides out there for other atomic distros apply to Aeon.

“Legitimate competition is when other countries impose unwarranted tariffs on us while their companies monopolise our markets.”

PopOS! is built by a US company BTW.

OpenSUSE is German, Mint is Irish and so is ZorinOS.

Excellent, they should. Europe has many services that are already on par with American alternatives (certainly when it comes to Microsoft’s services), many are cheaper or even free, and actually respect our data.

We also have SUSE and OpenSUSE from Germany that work as very serviceable alternatives to Windows. I hope this wake up call that has been the US’s betrayal of all past allies leads EU tech to capitalize on it.

I don’t disagree with you.

Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.

The chicken or the egg, which came first?

If i were to guess, I’d say North Korea doesn’t engage with more standard economic activities because the entire western world refuses to do business with them. So they resort to illegal activities instead.

Not that this excuses much, but countries still need to survive somehow. Cuba is a country that doesn’t do any of the hacking that NK does, but that doesn’t save them from being mercilessly cut off from the world economy either. And NK knows this.

Also, I’m not a north Korean bot and I resent that the discourse around this topic has become so polluted that I have to preface by saying this.

Indeed, a little bit of intra-class war for them, for a change.

Idk what Microsoft did to the product but I wouldn’t call it an improvement.

I think the article we’re looking at here isn’t really hyperbolic. They got AI to write all their code and broke the Keyboard.

Just FYI, if you can live without swipping, I recommend FUTO keyboard., it is basically Swiftkey but it actually works and doesn’t come with Microsoft’s spyware built in.

It’s what I use now, and I’m really happy. Don’t be fooled by it being in Alpha, because it works flawlessly (minus the swipe, which is hit and miss).

So this explains why Microsoft Swiftkey is total dogshit now. Also why the Outlook app barely works.

Its unbelievable.