Some weird nations will make you president with such a big gift of god°!

What is the base data for your analysis? Is this data available?

And how did you come to the conclusion that "missing high quality linux desktops" are the thing "holding back" Linux?

Is this based on some statistical work you did?

If we talk about feelings - did you ever have the feeling that corruption, lobbying and blackmailing could play a role?

BTW - why do you think Linux is missing high quality desktops? I am working with very high quality Linux desktops since many years and I wonder why people are using such low quality desktop OS that are sold commercially.

I'm not seeking funding, I'm not writing a scientific paper. This is a public forum and I stated an opinion.

> If we talk about feelings - did you ever have the feeling that corruption, lobbying and blackmailing could play a role?

If you want to make the argument make it, I will listen.

I working with Linux desktop for decades and like it. My point is that the hardware is the bigger issue.

Would you please like to explain why it is better? Thanks!

Free kernel livepatching, the whole Ubuntu universe is supported(more than 20 thousand packages), 10 years of support, compliance help.

Its also much easier to install on cloud servers than RHEL.

Ubuntu used to have security support for "main" only. All other software, e.g. in "universe" had patches trickle in from debian but no dedicated support. This is particularly problematic for long or extended LTS when debian has dropped the old stable release that would be pulling from.

"Ubuntu pro" is basically trying to fix this shortcoming compared to debian and to pay for a security team for universe. It is available as a subscription.

TLDR: If you use software from main it is completely irrelevant. If you use stuff from universe it is now as good as debian, if you pay (first 5 devices are free).

But that is life - you will die at the end. This is not a reason to be depressive, there is a way to find freedom accepting the volatile nature of everything. Enjoy your life, do not harm anybody and do positive work.

Your comment is unrelated too the parents comment.

There is a much higher probability that some human monstrosity will be taking you out in the blink of an eye.

What are your facts about what most people want? Did you do some statistical work in this field? It would be interesting to see your results.

As a competent HN reader you certainly are basing your view on some facts?

Oh no this is totally just my opinion, and I can only defend it with rhetoric, anecdotes, and common sense logic.

Don’t get name wrong, I don’t think the OP meant something malicious and I don’t want to word police in general. It’s just that this joke comes up all the time when Django is mentioned in a crowd. It may have been funny once but now it’s just kind of banal.

On a Linux system, how to secure a system so that users are not able to run binaries they downloaded from the internet?

How can application whitelisting be achieved?

Does Flathub come with any features that help with that?

But people using forums also got so many things wrong.

One thing that really went wrong: people using forums as issue trackers.

Just look at the mega topics that exist for one $thing with never-ending addition of posts that are a nightmare to search and extract knowledge from. Instead of using an issue tracker, they post more and more messages to the one forum topic dedicated to $thing. Some hardware related forums still do that. Ultra long topics with hundreds of posts, somewhere between page 157-178 there are some nuggets you will never find.

Also the extremely annoying UIs - as an example look at the minimal navigation / pagination buttons in many forums. Well, OK, that started to change slowly, but still we have horrible UIs everywhere. Annoyances like most space on a forum page still wasted for unimportant side information do exist - some designs are so bad that the most important information has the smallest font size.

But while the good old slick and dirty PHP forums still delivered with all that warts, mostly because these people still knew how to program fast software, then came the ruby programmers and brought us a vision of forum software that should get a premium lifetime award for coding horrors. JS heavy frontend with grotesque front-end anti-patterns and a monstrous bloated backend that breaks when your forum actually has some attention. The time of "internet software as a satirical art form" has not stopped until today.

So hopefully the old-school PHP devs can easily iron out the annoyances of the past and still deliver internet software that is fast and usable.

Happy release party, PhpBB!

> Just look at the mega topics that exist for one $thing with never-ending addition of posts that are a nightmare to search and extract knowledge from.

That's basically the default experience of discord.

> Ultra long topics with hundreds of posts, somewhere between page 157-178 there are some nuggets you will never find.

Yep, you have to go through each page to find them all, it's called research.