Bluesky is not a true alternative. Just recently there were news about them banning opposition accounts in Turkey.

Right. And then we see comments like the one that started this thread: “whoa, there was a Pocket integration??”

Thanks for this! I would’ve completely missed the 2FA update without this post!

For this whole spring have I clicked hundeds of times that I’m aware that my trial is ending

This is… not quite related to the topic, no? Trial ending warning is not a “hey, here’s a new feature you might want to try out”.

They also introduced a new feature that they promote on a space that takes literally half the screen

Could you elaborate? I used to use Edge as my daily driver, now it’s my secondary browser. I have no clue what you mean here.

In a world without dark design patterns, there would be a single pop-up when you first install the application, to ask if you want notifications and/or suggestions for new features

This is exactly how it works in things like Office or Edge.

If you click “no”, it should never bother you again unless you go into a menu and opt in

Yup. Or unless a new feature is introduced, in which case a new pop-up appears. That’s precisely how it works.

Ideally, that pop-up wouldn’t even exist. They could just have a collective “don’t bother me again” checkbox on every non-essential notification

Edge, most of the time, just opens a new tab with “Your Edge was updated” and a list of new things.

If your user has already indicated that they are not interested, any further pestering is essentially harassment.

If it was about the same feature that you already dismissed - yeah, I get the sentiment. If it’s about completely new things - it’s a really weird thing to say. How are users supposed to know that something new was introduced? Sift through thousands of lines of changelogs…?

The difference is in convenience.

On the one hand, you can add a page to your bookmarks, after choosing the correct folder, of course.

On the other hand, you can click a button and a page gets automatically saved in your “read later” storage, with a description, summary, and a preview of the content.

On Firefox? I’ve used it for years and this is the first time I hear of Pocket

And then people get all pissy when Google or Microsoft show a pop-up of a new feature…

Wow, this is brilliant! Now all I need is proper mouse gestures support and I can migrate full-time!

Wait, how do you turn them on?

Yeah, I guess I sound a bit aggressive. That wasn’t the intention. I just get an allergic reaction when I see the “Linux is just better than Windows now!” stuff. It is - in some scenarios. In others it’s worse. Someone who wants to do IT (and it kinda’ sounds like OP’s heading there) needs to understand that.

It’s honestly extremely surprising to me that there aren’t still any proper FOSS solutions that handle this. Is it because it’s super difficult to do? I’ve no idea, but it’s definitely something that’s preventing a lot of businesses to switch over.

Just FYI - SCCM is not the Autopilot equivalent, it’s the Intune equivalent. Intune’s Autopilot is, kind of, what Task Sequence is in SCCM.

As far as “life support” goes - it’s full featured. Security updates are still coming in, not much else they can add feature-wise in there.

As for the cloud - everything has its uses. Cloud is great if you don’t want to deal with all the bare-metal stuff. It allows one person to do the work of four, with the trade-off being that you lose some of the fine-tuning, control, or optimisation. As the saying goes: “the ‘s’ in 'Intune” stands for ‘speed’".

Don’t fuck the cloud. Just use it when it’s better than on-prem.

I love Linux. I’m running Linux and love the experience.

But…

i7-4970 i7-4790 so running windows 10 with all its bloat was not going to be an easy task for em

What in the world are you talking about, man??

Even ignoring the silliness of the “bloat” - i7-4790 eats Win10 alive and asks for seconds.

I stated that as long as they dont know how to work with wine/lutris or know any specific linux packages that run windows games on linux they should not be able to play in the middle of lessons

So… No, you didn’t stop them from doing that. All it takes for them to get back to playing games is to google “linux roblox how to” and 20 minutes later they’re good to go. Windows has AppLocker, and GPO to prevent running unwanted software - have you researched alternatives for Linux?

does this mean linux now is ready for the education sector?

Well, depends on scale. The setup you did is fine for, what, a single classroom? Two classrooms? It’s completely unusable for a larger school - for that you need an MDM solution, ideally with some form of IAM. In the Windows world that’s SCCM/Intune with AD/EID (local/cloud). Correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s only bare-bones equivalents in the Linux world for that, which would be the bigger a problem the larger a school you’d be dealing with.

I didn’t notice any slowness in connection after sleep/suspend, but I can’t say I was overly paying attention.

How about this - I configured Kate to have full Markdown support, with preview.

There was an update today. The Document Preview plugin got disabled and once I enabled it, it’s no longer able to display Markdown preview.

That’s what I call “unstable”. Shit randomly breaking for no reason at all. And I know it’s probably SOME dependency SOMEWHERE that got updated which broke a DIFFERENT dependency, but that’s kind of my point - things like this just don’t happen on Windows (since around Win10).

Do you get a window?

I run games in full screen mode, so maybe it would work. Seems like Wayland has Ctrl+Meta+Esc as the equivalent of xkill. I’ll try this if it happens again.

To me “stable” means: “fire and forget”. Maybe a reboot needed every couple of months because something broke, or having to kill a hung process. That’s my experience with Windows nowadays.

I’m on Garuda Linux, which is based on Arch Zen, and every now and again something random breaks. Network connection doesn’t stand up after sleep. Steam randomly breaks. Signal refuses to connect. One monitor’s brightness doesn’t go back to default value after the OS dimmed it due to inactivity. Uninstalled application still shows up in Application Launcher’s search results, even though I deleted it from the KDE Menu Editor.

Lots and lots of little things like that.

Steam does something weird when running a Windows game via Proton. I haven’t figured out which task to kill to kill a game it’s running.

More stable

Wellllll, I wouldn’t go that far.

I just had to reboot because clicking anything in the browser randomly started sending the CPU utilisation to higher 70s, which was triggering the fans to spin at full power.

Then I ran a game on Steam and Steam said it’s running, but it was nowhere to be found. Had to reboot again.

Both of these happened completely randomly after I changed nothing, just browsing the web.

Hey, thanks for your comment! Someone on Reddit was able to help out, I posted the solution in the OP.