You’re confusing the word “dominant”. They’ve never been even remotely close to being dominant in gaming.

Look up the revenue numbers. Nobody else comes close. Minecraft alone with its different editions is massive.

How about you implement it?

No, absolutely not. Apple is anti Linux. Giving them money over manufacturers with actual Linux support is the completely wrong. AMD is the way to go.

coreutils is, well, important. It’s fine to bring new software in, but you have to test it. And they haven’t tested enough.

They abolished alpha and beta versions because Canonical’s QA is so good, they don’t need them any longer…

25.10 is an interim release specifically there for testing new things.

You’re confusing alpha and beta versions with an actual release. A release without long term support is still a release.

the only functionality I’ve ever found missing is USB-C video out

Pretty basic feature to miss.

I hope whoever is managing this does it better than Ubuntu’s rust debacle

Honestly: Why? Apple M processor platform support relies completely on reverse engineering. It’s not a production-ready platform despite what some people keep shouting in forums. Even old M1 and M2 Macs can only reboot running Linux since this summer: https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/linux-6-17-will-be-able-to-reboot-silicon-macs/

A Rust rewrite of the bootloader is the least of their construction sites.

Unless you literally turn this feature on, then open the Xbox game bar and go to the widget and select to use it - it’s not just some “always on” thing, you have to open it to use it - then it doesn’t do anything.

“You can disable the Gaming Copilot widget from the game bar, however from experimentation so far the network traffic is still running with the user interface not open — I don’t know if this is a feature or a bug.”

If only Microsoft ever had that position. They’ve been distant third since the Switch 1 came out, distant second from day 1 of the PS4.

Wrong. You confuse the Xbox console with Microsoft’s overall position as game publisher which includes all of Activision-Blizzard-King, Bethesda, Minecraft, Halo, Forza,… across multiple platforms.

the vast majority of people will be OK with this

I don’t think the vast majority of Windows users are even aware of the Xbox Game Bar to begin with, let alone all the features there.

I forgot that systemd had been allowed to take over /tmp and /run.

According to Debian everyone is allowed to take over /run

Why on earth would the permissions on /var/lock be something for systemd to decide?

Because – as LWN explains – there no longer is an overarching standards body who makes the decision, so anybody can make up their own.

Debian’s continued use of UUCP-style locking does seem to be more than a little bit dated. The FHS 3.0 is clearly reaching the end of its useful life, if not actually expired.

Seems like Debian is more the outlier here.

Flatpak support broken, shovelware pile Snap Store pushed down users’ throats, and now this.

Anyone who thinks that Ubuntu is the best choice for new Linux users is fundamentally wrong.

The rounded corners are cosmetic. Using the 3-dots menu you cannot put a video into more than playlist at once any longer. The checkboxes are gone and clicking the new bookmark icon next to a playlist closes the window.

I use it all the time to categorize music.

Imagine Microsoft’s top management was competent and leveraged their PC operating system monopoly with their dominant gaming position (ABK + Minecraft alone are massive, not even counting Bethesda and the older 1st studios).

Properly attributed generated lines are easier to remove should courts declare them illegal.

What would projects with undeclared AI code do? Shut everything down? Revert everything until the commit before ChatGPT launched? Just say yolo and go on?

The middle ground, IMO, is not letting it spit out code.

Are SPEC files for RPM creation code? How much actual code is even written under the Fedora umbrella, except maintenance scripts and such? Adjacent projects such as Anaconda are in the rhinstaller organization on Github: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda

Either I overlooked the details or they aren’t spelled out. From my experience of packaging software for myself as RPM (for openSUSE) the amount of actual code are a few lines of bash scripting to invoke sed and such.

Much of distribution development is writing menial scripts and SPEC files. It’s tedious work with little creativity. The last SPEC file for an RPM package I wrote from scratch was years ago but it was so tedious work. The Arch maintainers even argue that their PKGBUILD files are so simple, they don’t pass the so-called threshold of originality and therefore are public domain anyway.

Much can be (and probably already is) automated. Compilation directives like CMake files already contain all the info needed to generate a workable if a bit bare bones SPEC file. I’d say an LLM might even be overkill for what a script could also achieve. The result is public domain anyway.

I guess it’s time to go shopping for a new distro :(

If you think that undisclosed AI contributions aren’t happening everywhere, you’re delusional.

Not yet released, right?

What? The author posted the code as patch set to review. That’s literally what the article is about.

The amount of contributions to FOSS from a downstream Ubuntu remix are very limited. Better donate to Debian or buy a Steam Deck.