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It even hides the speedometer, an important element of the game!

Lenovo LOQ, Linux Mint user here. That shiny Copilot key? Completely dead. Does absolutely nothing.

Microsoft made this key mandatory for OEM certification — so Lenovo had no choice. They literally removed the right Ctrl key that existed for 30 years and replaced it with a branded Microsoft button.

EU banned IE bundling in 2009. But a permanent AI logo burned into physical hardware? Crickets.

You can uninstall software. You cannot remove a key from your keyboard.

This is hardware-level vendor lock-in and nobody's talking about it.

I always had problems with Flatpak apps. External disk access, drag-and-drop, D-Bus access… almost everything eventually turns into “install Flatseal and manually override permissions.” Sometimes even that is not enough and you end up manually mounting folders or changing permissions manually. Terminal access is awkward because instead of launching apps normally, you need to remember long flatpak run com.organization... commands and cli parameters won't work, file paths behave inconsistently and looking like file:///run/user/1000/doc/a5h42f, and apps randomly cannot access folders they obviously should. Broken desktop integration, weird filesystem isolation, after years on Linux I honestly feel like if an application already has a native .deb package, most developers do not really check whether everything fully works on the Flatpak version before releasing it. People usually criticize about dependencies being large but I don't even care if the app manage to work. Flatpak sounds great in theory, but in daily Linux usage it often creates more friction than convenience for me.

It's very fun sub but this is egregious

It's disgusting consumer behavior while Gnu/Linux in it's roots is immaculate academic conception born in mind of Torvalds (who after all turned out to be a sellout to corporate) and Stallman, and not ment for brainless mass consumption.

It enables Redhat, XDG and other Big Linux Lobby cronies to continue their sick depravity of puting a next leash of corporot framework standards on mainstream distros. The general integration of systemd stack into linux fundamentals then makes it harder for anyone to not use it, to look for some alternative, and homogenises the ecosystem.

Unfortunetely developers likes to cater to this mindset for some reason, and that gave gnu/linux it's worst diseases so far like appimage, flatpak, snap, modern desktop environments that pull shitton of systemd dependencies. It's a staged takeover by Big Linux Lobby that requires 1) developer of slopsoftware 2) a Dunnig-Kruger "power user" who enjoys slop. Those power users will then direct linux newbies to sloppy distros like Ubuntu, Mint, Arch and it forks, that uses systemd. Instead of newbie getting interested in the heart of linux system, through linux advertising on social media they are encouraged to waste time on "ricing" and configuring games. That's the image of gnu/linux distributions, as "highly customizable" shown in contrast to "uncustomizable" Windows. This is a flawed comparison as Windows is explicitely a closed source loosely customisable product, and also it redirects the newbies attention from customising lower level aspects of the system. New users are infantilised and recommended "distros that just works" or "easy distros". Coincidentally, those distros also uses systemd stack... This general mindset of making distros supposedly easy to use for "Windows refugees" led to creation of absolutely the most vile disgusting slopdistros of all time, like zorin or endavouros which feature PAID VERSIONS and brings absolutely NO MEANINGFULL INNOVATION into gnu/linux. This is a complete joke. Ritchie, Torvalds and Stallman didn't bust their asses just so a couple of incompetent devs can make such paid shitware for people that don't knwo any better yet. That's what we get for enabling this mindset.

By promoting "easy distro", you are silently enabling the homogenised Redhat tainted FOSS ecosystem and it keeps growing. This has to stop, and linux community as a whole would do themslves much more good by focusing on lower level aspects of OS freedom, rather then trying to make sure "linux gets popular" or wether "it's the year of linux desktop". "Linux desktop" is a fake term invented by Redhat and XDG to push their framework of xdg-desktop-utils. Most bare bones linux distribution has the potential to be used for daily work aka "desktop" provided it can run X11 and dependencies for office suite. But Big Linux Lobby also pushes for inclusion of their XDG trash, dbus, pulseaudio, as it supposedly ameliorates the desktop experience. Userland utilities of low and high level should be as configurable at deployment as kernel is, and we should push distro maintainers to incirporate more choices into OS deployment process rather then less, more configurable scripts and less Calamares installer toddler-GUI stupidity.

5.) Most of your Applications will not run Natively on Linux. Sure you can run things in Wine, but it will never run as well as it does natively. Some things just don’t work in Wine or they’re a bitch to set up. Quite of bit of business(at least the ones that my friends work at) write a lot of In-House Applications using .Net. Having that company switch to Linux would require to rewrite those applications to run on Mono.

4. The community is not fully matured yet. People just want to use Linux so they can hate Microsoft or Apple. These 15 years old basement dwellers who have enough programming experience to code “Hello World” in C++. Not to mention one of the answers to questions are: RTFM, WorksForMe(tm), and You Break It You Fix It On Your Own.(To be fair, not everyone in the Linux Community it complete dickwads. There are some great people that will help you out).

3.) Some of your devices may not work on Linux. You may install the latest version of Ubuntu or Fedora and discover that it doesn’t work with your printer. That is no fun. Not all hardware works correctly with Linux.

2.) It can be tough learning a new Operating System. Why attempt to learn something new when you’re going to just use Firefox to surf the web no matter what OS you’re using.

1.)It’s a cult, and last time I check joining a cult is bad. It’s different if you’re setting up a Linux machine for a web server(though you should use FreeBSD or OpenBSD), but trying to convince everyone to install Linux on their Desktop because Linux is way superior in every way.