losing integration because “containerized”

Bollocks. I’ve seen that many times with Flatpak (can’t speak for Snap), and every single time it was either because the packager failed to set up permissions or because the user messed with permissions that the application needed. Break off the tip of a screwdriver and it will no longer function as a screwdriver.

Well then I guess you haven’t tried to get a password manager like KeepassXC to work with a Flatpak browser, because none of the solutions I’ve seen are “fix the permissions”.

From the article:

The latest kerfuffle will only be seen by Enterprise users running Windows 11 24H2 or 25H2 who have a July 2025 cumulative update installed as well.

Are you running Windows 11 Enterprise?

The mail client is available, it’s just in beta.

The Tom’s Hardware post linked in the article has an estimate of how many downloads it was:

From October 29 to November 28, team Bazzite is happy to share that the site had 730,000 unique visitors, and it served 1PB of data during a month, for the first time. How many Bazzite OS downloads does this imply? We looked at the various ISO installers on offer and noted that an Nvidia GPU friendly ISO was 7.5GB, and an AMD GPU-ready ISO 6.6GB. So, if we assume an average of 7.0GB per ISO, that would be about 143,000 Bazzite downloads – getting close to 150,000 new users, as a best-case scenario.

Windows: searches bing before ntfs

They’re already getting sued over ChatGPT helping people commit suicide. Imagine the uproar once the advice comes with ads for rope, knives, etc…

“Our deepest sympathies are with the Raine family for their unimaginable loss,” OpenAI said in its blog, while its filing acknowledged, “Adam Raine’s death is a tragedy.” But “at the same time,” it’s essential to consider all the available context, OpenAI’s filing said, including that OpenAI has a mission to build AI that “benefits all of humanity” and is supposedly a pioneer in chatbot safety.

How the fuck is OpenAI’s mission relevant to the case? Are suggesting that their mission is worth a few deaths?

You can use distrobox/distroshelf to set up a container with a regular distro and install packages in that instead of layering; if a package installs a GUI application you can export the application and it will show up in your applications menu.

Now they say only enable it if you understand the security implications, but eventually they’ll downplay the security implications and enable it by default.

Steam Deck Verified games should be fine, and a lot of non-Verified games were only downgraded to “Playable” because of issues that may not matter on a desktop, like small text (what’s small on a Steam Deck screen may not be small on a monitor) or needing to manually trigger the on-screen keyboard (a desktop is usually accompanied by a physical keyboard).

Maybe I’m just picky, but I think Mint replacing the standard Firefox icon should lower its place on the list of distros for people coming from Windows. Out of their preinstalled applications, Firefox is the one a Windows user is probably the most likely to be familiar with, and out-of-the-box they’ve got it pinned to the taskbar with an icon that a Windows user won’t recognize. There’s so many other distros where a Windows user can log in and clearly spot Firefox.

They have a pro version that adds AI features, no idea the pricing yet though.

The aricle says the AI stuff is tied to Canva’s Premium subscription, which is 120 USD/year:

Canva Premium subscribers will also be able to use AI-powered Canva editing tools like image generation, photo cleanup, and instant copy directly within the Affinity app.

To add to what the others have said, shader compilation is enough of a problem on Windows that Microsoft is working on a system to deliver precompiled shaders from the cloud for supported games on supported hardware.

Console games only have to deal with a fixed set of hardware, so they come with precompiled shaders for that hardware. PC games don’t know what they’re going to run on, so the shaders are compiled on the machine where the game is played.

Gizmodo’s article has more detail.

Maybe if the robots get damaged at the same rate their workers get injured they’ll get more interested in safety.

Their web page doesn’t really mention self-hosting, but there’s github link way down at the bottom and that has self-hosting instructions.

Google’s post also added that a few Privacy Sandbox technologies that have seen broad adoption would be retained.

"We will be continuing our work to improve privacy across Chrome, Android and the web, but moving away from the Privacy Sandbox branding,” a spokesperson was quoted as saying.

Seems like it’s not completely dead.

Mint was the default suggestion for people switching from Windows until a few days ago, and then Zorin popped up.

Feeling lonely? Enable Copilot and feel paranoid instead!