So all their products are breaking…

To be honest, I’m not sure if it would be more concerning for them to have just one fatal issue with their process, or two unrelated ones.

Yeah the issue is that so many companies were at the intersection of two monopolies – either one failing has catastrophic effects, and there’s no backup plan.

I mean yes they did “formally request” it, but given the power dynamic between a FOSS project and a large technology company, openSUSE is not in a position where they could possibly refuse. So is there a difference between a request and a demand?

To be honest, their demand that OpenSUSE rebrand left a bad taste in my mouth. I get the logic behind it, but the time for that passed a long time ago (probably about 15 years ago).

Tenacity looks great, and I didn’t even know about it! Thanks for the reminder, we should definitely be supporting the fork thats actually proper FOSS.

Ahhh I see. At least from Wikipedia, it looks like the auto-opt-in telemetry was dropped, which is good.

Wierd that it’s owned by Muse group now, but glad it’s alive and well.

What happened with all the privacy invading stuff which Audacity went through a couple years ago? I never heard whether it got reverted or not.

Many Python packages are packaged by apt to deal with this. Try apt search python3-.

Start by running vim and typing :vimtutor. You might have to install the vimtutor package. Its a good way to learn. Once you’re through the vimtutor tutorial you should be good to go, you’ll get better over time. I second recommending neovim over original vim. The command is nvim to start once installed.

Yes, cinnamon is its own DE. Its similar to KDE in layout, but iirc it’s a fork of a very very old gnome version. I remember seeing a benchmark at some point that Cinnamon was less resource-intensive than GNOME or KDE