Yeah, I’ve had a couple Parker pens since I was a kid. And I still use a beat-up metal Cross pen that was my grandfather’s.

Overall you are correct.

But standard Parker and Cross can refills have been the same for longer than I’ve been alive. Very easy to get.

In that case, no. Like the other responder said, those are just some dependency packages.

Lots of software uses packages made by Gnome. These are simply dependencies for other software you’re installing.

Are you asking if installing them will add the Gnome desktop environment?

And nothing of value was lost.

If whales are fish, then so are coelacanths.

Or maybe I should be allowed to use a device I purchase however I damn well please.

No. It’s a loss for everybody. It doesn’t save grandma, and it prevents power users from using the device they own.

That’s what’s great about reality: it doesn’t matter if you’re convinced.

Breaking news: people age

Spyware is not a virus because it does not self-replicate.

I mean, duh. Eggs don’t come out of the mouth.

Technically, everything about those games is stupid. Aside from the fact they are fun, I mean.

See, you say that as a Linux user.

Ordinary folks don’t talk or think like Linux people. Nobody understands what a “process” is, let alone what a container is or what isolation means.

And if somebody is used to “pres butan get bacon” anything else is going to sound like gobbledygook.

Also: a modern distro running gnome or KDE is harder to screw up. Folks don’t need to use clunky package managers like Synaptics. As a result, they are less likely to break things.

They’ve been doing this for probably as long as they’ve been in business.

Chuwi has been around for a long time.

I don’t believe the word “trust” has ever been used to describe that company.

c/shittyyoushouldknow

Cautiously optimistic.

It’s also not worth my time or money to track down old, beat-up Chromebooks and put Linux on them, and yet here we are.

I’m weird, so the things I find fun are weird.

I look forward to thrifting one in a few years, then installing Linux on it.