Just a bad title. It’s “Ubuntu Certified”, as Canonical has added it to their certified program.

Framework, the company, has stated that Ubuntu and Fedora work well on their devices and that Fedora is(was?) recommended.

I got my Framework 13 in early 2026 and been running CachyOS on it since day one. Haven’t had any incompatibility issues at all.

The “Ubuntu Certified” label is supposed to help schools and businesses use it for purchasing power to say “oh these repairable laptops are also officially supported by Ubuntu” if they wanted to use Ubuntu in the workplace.

So prohibition 2.0? How’d that work out again?

Pretty sure I’m going to buy at least 2. But would want 3 or 4. I feel like it’s gonna be limited per customer and there’s not going to be enough…

That’s why I buy clothes made with polyester! No plastic here! In fact I don’t think I’ve ever seen clothes with “plastic” as a material before…

I mean I get where you’re going with this, but I still don’t see how this effects Linux. Oh no I can’t access reddit without a government ID…cool I don’t use it anyway?

And if Lemmy or whatever else requires one then oh well, I’ll find the dozen or so forums that don’t care then

Ah just looked up EX mode. Didn’t know capital Q entered a different mode, I just wrote “Q” to emphasize the key in general not capital Q specifically lol.

Personally I love vim, it’s just powerful enough for me for my bash scripts. Anything more complicated then I’m using a proper IDE or something more simple I’m using Kate or whatever graphical editor for my DE.

Nah, just looked it up. Recording mode is activated by pressing “q” and allows you to record your inputs for a macro. So if you forget to do “:” and just press “q” you’ll enter Recording mode and have to press “q” again to exit Recording and then you can do “:q” or whatever you needed.

But if you don’t know what you pressed and don’t know how to exit Recording mode then you’ll be stuck. I’ve seen coworkers get stuck in this from time to time.

We’re a RHEL shop so our vim version may be different, but Recording mode doesn’t let us exit vim directly, we have to exit Recording mode and then exit vim. Again, might just be our setup.

Just had a conversation at work about using Linux full time. Coworkers asking me what issues I have and what games I can play.

I mean it’s not all sunshine and rainbows…but I told them my Start Menu opens every time I need it. I don’t have explorer.exe randomly crashing. I can search in my Start Menu for things and they actually come up properly. Oh and with btrfs snapshots I can update whenever and if it breaks I just rollback and wait for a fix. Which has happened…once in the last 5 months of using Cachy+Plasma.

I feel like I can actually use my computer now. With Windows I dreaded doing updates. With Linux I update whenever I want and it doesn’t fucking bother me at all.

Could be in recording mode, which usually needs a couple ESC or a Q then you can :wq

Idk who’s spending $200 on it. It’s $100 for the basic, but it goes on sale often. Same with Ancestry’s test. They always go on sale.

You can buy appliances without smart features still?

Best Buy has dozens, if not hundreds, of fridges without smart features. I can buy a 18cu top freezer fridge for $450 right now.

That same type of fridge back in the 1970s cost $300-$400. Adjusted for inflation that’s $2,000

So I don’t get this post. You can buy cheap fridges still and it’ll probably last a long time if you take care of it. Read repair reports or Google random problems for a fridge you’re looking to buy to see the most common failure points and see what the repair cost would be to factor in future costs.

Stupid post.

Shout out to Switch and click doing a run through of different distros as well. Probably the best from a “normie” perspective IMO.

At 3am? 12pm? 7pm? 8am? They’re going to be there 24/7?

Because I got all of the time in the world

That’s cool, I’ll just bring all dozen ballots from my family to the local registrar office drop off. No USPS involved.

Thanks for the warning Trump!

Nah if you have the ability to game and sleep as much as you want then more power to you.

I just don’t like hearing “oh I’m tired” and I ask why and someone says “oh I went to bed at 4am because of a new MMO expansion” like, ok? You’re tired because you were up all night having fun?

Or especially if you do that and also fall asleep at work or something. Like I’m not picking up your slack because you decided to game all night.

But if you have a newborn or you’re taking care of an elderly parent or whatever then yeah I’ll help you out if you ask.

My sticking point is if it’s self inflicted or not.

Tired because you stayed up all night playing video games? Yeah, don’t have much sympathy.

Up all night studying for whatever exam or you pulled back to back 12 hour shifts for work? Yeah that sucks man.

Personally I hope no one buys this “console”. There’s been way too many rumors and general discussions that this will be the “last Xbox” and Microsoft has already lost the “first party” game front.

There is zero reason to buy Xbox at this point. Game Pass is stupidly expensive(and you can’t even buy Gold separately anymore). This new “console” is supposed to be stupidly expensive as well.

I would hope this would force people to just switch to PC, but the hard heads will buy Xbox and the noobs will buy PlayStation.

I loved my original Xbox and the 360, but Microsoft has been on a steep decline since. The writing’s been on the wall for a long time.

To play into the theory here (China invading)…

Apple makes phones. Lots of people buy the phones. If apple can’t make phones, then they can’t sell phones, then people can’t buy phones, bad for economy.

If China invaded Taiwan and it wasn’t a “peaceful transfer of power”, then China could just level the whole country, which would destroy all the fabs and little Susie down the street can’t upgrade from the iPhone 18 to the iPhone 19. Again, just playing into the theory.

Americans are consumers. I’m assuming they think(CIA/gov) that as long as iPhones, TVs, and porn is available then Americans won’t care about Taiwan getting invaded.