It’s his walkpaper.

This better not awalken something in me.

Obviously, yes. My point is: Do you read and understand all changes in the code for each update? You need to trust the maintainers, cause they could theoretically push out any code with the update.

That’s not what I’m saying.
I’m saying you need to trust the people making your OS cause no way in hell is anyone else able to audit every update they push.
Whether your OS is trustworthy depends on their history. In that regard, I’d give Ubuntu a solid B-

Yes, they’re taking the source code from upstream, modifying (“patching”) it, compiling it, then uploading their compiled binaries to the Ubuntu repo where your system downloads them during an update.

You can technically download the source code as well, if you activate the source repo. But hardly any end user does. And the source code you get doesn’t compile to the same binary you get from the repo anyway. (This would be called a “reproducible build”. Some distros try to be reproducible. Ubuntu doesn’t, they have other priorities.)

You trust their repos.
With every apt update, they could push whatever code they want onto your PC.
Same as with literally any binary-based OS.

So can Canonical. The difference is, they don’t.

You can tell it’s a man by how badly he parked.

I think I was pretty clear with what I was asking in this thread:

“Is anyone here using an enterprise Linux distro?”

Can I assume you’re not actually running an enterprise distro?

I mean, me neither, yet, but:

• Both SUSE and Red Hat have had a minor release this year, with their software being less out of date than Debian
• I feel like enterprise distros seem to be very different in the areas where differences between distros actually matter: Package management (which can be fine-tuned a lot more with application streams, security updates, package modules, etc.) and complete, up-to-date documentation (which is the thing most people miss in Linux).

I was really looking for real world experience, not a re-hashing of unvalidated opinions that have been around for >10 years (when they might have actually been true).

Shortly after getting my driver’s license, I stupidly merged onto a road with a 40 mph speed limit without looking left.
A car was coming right towards my driver’s side door. The driver of the other car made their brakes squeal (this was before ABS). Right before they would have hit me and probably killed me (this was before airbags), they released their brakes, swerved around me, and kept going.
It was some really impressive driving, and it likely saved my life.

Oh yeah, Jeeps do that.

Probably the number one cause of borked Linux systems - trying to “de-bloat”.

right. This is Weston (same distro):

The idea behind Linux is to create an operating system anyone can use in any way they want.
That includes the North Korean government using it to spy on their people.

Yes, of course. They can hardly use an OS that phones home to the US.

Rebecca Black OS.
It is the only Linux distro to date built around Weston, using Wayland’s full capability:

It doesn’t include any Rebecca Black theming or is related to her in any way.
It’s just called that cause the dev is a fan of hers.

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This is a loaded question. It pretends every supporter of Israel also supports the current government, the illegal occupation, the ongoing war, and throwing the Geneva convention out.

I support Israel’s right to exist as a sovereign state and a homeland for the Jewish people.

But I support none of the above.

And no, I don’t have a good solution for this age-old conflict either.