https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Sony_Ericsson_Android_Phone

I think they misread “our biggest launch” (the last line in the post) as “our biggest lunch”

That doesn’t sound easy enough for a new player

genocidal parent-company

What genocide did Microsoft commit? I somehow missed it

I feel like I’m an average person, and making the OS look nice is very high on my wish list. My day 1 task on a new system is to copy over my backgrounds, set up themes and colours, set up the right level of transparency.

I’m only half annoyed that I did all that on bazzite before I discovered I couldn’t stand an immutable system

I have only had problems from dist upgrade when I have been running server software (specifically email and mailing lists). Games, productivity stuff, pictures and so will be fine.

They’re not saying they went to Zorin, they’re saying they went from windows to Linux recently.

They are right to be happy about it

You can buy nearly any budget machine and load Linux off a USB stick, but most people just take whatever they have and their last windows action is to download a boot image and write it to a USB stick, then boot off the stick and tell it to use the whole disk

Then use your backup system to restore your documents, pictures, web and mail configuration, and game settings and saves to your Linux machine

Because 100k people found it when they tried to find a Linux

If I want my GPU supported without having to use level not parameters to boot and without manually installed drivers, Mint isn’t going to work

(I know because I couldn’t tolerate the restrictions of bazzite which was the default for my machine, so I installed Mint 22.1, it wouldn’t boot successfully. I added the nomodeset (noModeSet) kernel parameter at the boot menu to get the computer booted, then had to download and install the drivers)

People on new high performance hardware might find that all difficult

This is what you wrote:

This is only affecting roms that are Google approved and have Google play services installed…

What I’m saying is your connect would have been less confusing of you flagged that you were using an acronym oddly:

This is only affecting roms that are Google approved and have Google play services (GPS) installed…

GPS is usually decoded to global positioning system, which all phones use. Your usage of the acronym for something else is needlessly confusing. You could avoid the confusion by decoding the acronym yourself: … Google Play services (GPS)…

My different printer does that when it takes a break from printing to disconnect any stringy plastic, for example when it moves to check the print adhered correctly. Mine behaves better when I cancel. I can prevent that behaviour by turning off “AI check file”

Mint is pretty popular and that’s not much other than reskinned Ubuntu

Google don’t restrict unlocking the boot loader. I just checked on my Pixel 9 Pro Fold and the OEM unlocking toggle is still there. The only barrier is enabling developer options by repeatedly tapping the build number in settings/about phone, just like it always has been

You can only relock the bootloader with a signed OS image loaded

Red hat (in '99). I chose it because it was included on the disc that came with an IT magazine I bought at the time

I moved to Linux From Scratch a few years later, then to Debian. I have been on Debian based OSes since then, I like Mint at the moment

Knoppix was my favourite recovery and rescue live CD

I abandoned the brand after the S4

And Outlook. My quick sig is:

-- psud

But on Outlook it is

-- <ctrl-z>psud

The op image incorrectly used the singular when they meant the plural

I use them a lot