It's barely the second most popular OS, after Android. iOS is pretty close behind it. And yet the amount of complaints Windows gets seems to be far higher than that of Android.
Touchscreen (and 2-in-1) support in general is quite good, both Gnome and Plasma (two most popular "desktop environments") support it well. It should be about as responsive as it is on Windows, because the response time generally comes from hardware and not software. However, I must warn you that I've had a similar HP 2-in-1 (although a different model) and there simply wasn't a Linux driver for the touchscreen so it didn't work at all; all the other tablet-like features worked fine. I would first check on a liveUSB - the touchscreen should work there the same as it will on the installed distro. If it doesn't work, well, there's your answer.
If by GNUIX you mean GNU Guix, they yeah it's good enough. I've tried it on real hardware and didn't find any issues. I would consider switching to it, but my day job is Nix-related so I'm running NixOS to make things easier. The learning curve is really steep for both Guix and Nix but I think their approach is great in the long term and worth investing some time into.
Honestly for something repetitive like this I'd suggest trying to avoid user interaction completely. It's probably better to get that info from the DVD drive itself (blkid -o value -s LABEL /dev/dvd), or if that fails assign a number.
UK libel laws sound way more reasonable to me. They force you to take accountability for your speech. Generally opinions and even hyperbole are fine (e.g. in this case, it's likely OK to say that you think this person is Darth Vader). But if you spout some nonsense factoid about someone, be prepared to have some proof. US could definitely use some of that (it would put a lot of right-wing media companies out of business immediately, and I'm all for it)
IF the EC decides to move forward with the review and IF the review recommends suspending it and IF the EU Parliament votes to suspend it; each if being significantly less likely than the previous.
Can someone explain with less legalese? In my reading, the court decided that it did not have the jurisdiction over it because... UAE decided that it didn't want the court to have jurisdiction over it? That shit would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
To me it seems they're behaving (driving? riding?...) in a very surprising/unsafe manner on the road. Admittedly I'm from a country with a completely different driving culture. Do people just ride scooters like that in China?
Also, there's this interesting legal question of who is responsible when one of those things crashes into a car or a pedestrian.
Other than that, this is cool as heck and I want my bicycle to do the same now.
For example, in the US, Samsung has had locked bootloaders on all its phones since the Galaxy S7.
Yikes. While shopping for a new phone last year I was under the impression that at least in the European market they still allow you to unlock the bootloader, even on the latest models. The catch is that there's pretty much no third-party Android distros that work with the phones, because they don't release drivers or kernel patches and people have to scrape them from first-party OS images, which sounds horrible.
You can (on most Android phones) run an Android fork that doesn't have Google services running and gets software and updates from elsewhere, e.g. GrapheneOS. Can't do that with an iPhone. I get that you're still ultimately dependent on Google to continue Android development and make security updates, but it's way less of a dependency. And yes, GNU-ish Linux on phones would be awesome.
So that anyone with even a shred of decency is gone and only the most rabid genociders remain? I think organizing a protest - even as meek as this - is better than just running away.
Both iPhones and MacBooks (to a lesser extent) rely on US services provided by Apple. They (techically) can execute arbitrary code on your devices if you have auto-update enabled (and probably even if not). They're almost definitely spying on you, your habits, your decisions etc.
Yeah, kind of. However under capitalism getting regulations passed is at best a temporary fix until the capitalist hands out enough bribes. Unless by "getting involved in politics" you mean "join your local socialist party".
"Created"? There's been a duopoly since the inception of smartphone. This ruling does literally nothing to change that. Even sideloading wouldn't fully fix that. The only true fix is to force manufacturers to provide an unlocked bootloader and drivers (at least binaries), but I can't see this happening.
Yep, I think that "cut a liberal and a fascist bleeds" is in the same vein. I understand where it's coming from, but I feel like instead of alienating people who self-identify as liberals we need to point out that liberalism is self-contradictory (private ownership of capital is eventually incompatible with equality before law, democracy and liberty in general). So, when times get tough (because of centralization of capital and thus power in the hands of few, combined with lobbying/bribes/regulatory capture) liberals will have to choose one or the other - those who choose private ownership are fascists, and those who choose liberty are communists. I don't have a good catchphrase to encompass that idea, though.
It's barely the second most popular OS, after Android. iOS is pretty close behind it. And yet the amount of complaints Windows gets seems to be far higher than that of Android.