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This price point makes me wonder what the purpose is: do they really have such a large user base that their 1 EUR/year subscription will add significant funds to develop the app further? I doubt. In which case the only effect will be to lose users who refuse to pay. Disclaimer: I use their app for navigation and I quite like it
Would you mind sharing why Linux is not an option? I'm planning to switch a fintech team of 20 to Ubuntu and wondering if I missed anything when doing the PoC
I've got mine on https://www.gentlemanstore.hu/kiegeszitok-1/ It wasn't more expensive than buying direct
Well I know for medium and large companies it may not be easy, depending on what cloud services they currently use. But for micro and small companies, that use cloud storage, and maybe some virtual machines in the cloud, there is no excuse. A Linux VM is a Linux VM no matter whether it is hosted on Aws or OVH cloud
Companies have the option to migrate to EU providers to avoid the taxes on their infrastructure. Yes I know it's not that easy. Bite the bullet or pay the tax.
Can I run a bash script before I configure Ubuntu when I start it first time? I couldn't find, but maybe I missed it. If I configure it, then run my script and then clone, the clone will inherit the user, language etc settings which I don't want
The aim of the initiative would be to express to the EU commission the citizens desire to become less dependent on the big tech companies. I appreciate the complexity you mention, but it would be the commission to work out what is achievable or not. My view is that everything is, it's just the question of timeframe. There are areas, e.g. my school example, that would be easier to transform, other areas as you say more difficult. But we need to drive this and keep on the pressure, otherwise nothing will change. It's already great to see that we are talking about it
Yes, but extend it to school education as well. Governments are spending millions if not billions to purchase laptops with Windows for schools. Why can't we teach our kids the basic digital skills on Linux? If their first experience is with Linux, they will stick to that.
Sorry I thought it was the same. I think I came across this before and it seemed a bit too complex for my level but I will give it another go
Thanks - I will give this a go if I can't find a solution for customizing without firing up the os
Yes, this is what I use to flash the image to the SD card. The issue is that I want to change the official image before flashing and that is where I'm stuck
Customizing the Raspberry Pi Ubuntu image
Hello, I would like to customize the Raspberry Pi Ubuntu image before I flash it to multiple SD cards. I tried to use Cubic: I downloaded the official image which is an img.xz file. I extracted it, and converted the img to iso since Cubic only accepts iso files. However, when I try to add this source iso in Cubic, it complains about having a wrong file format. Can you suggest a better way to try and customize it? I just need to uninstall some software that are there by default, and install others that are not there, nothing crazy really.
"No OS" will not make it to the average internet user, which is 99% of the population. If they have to select, they will select windows. The remaining 1% will figure it out, but that 1% won't make any impact. We need a model that would pave the way for Linux to the average internet user.
The issue is that 99% of people don't want to install an OS, they just want to have a computer that they can use as is. I'm not saying my proposal would be ideal, but something needs to change in the current model otherwise in 10 years time we will still be whining about Microsoft's 90% market share
I tried to find the Windows equivalent of this to compare the prices, but they don't make it easy...
Yeah that is good news, but as you say, it should be the standard. I'm wondering if they make any donations for Ubuntu. I know they don't have to
Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/11958306
As we all know, the EU loves regulation, sometimes even overregulation. One area where I feel that regulation would help is computer hardware sale. When I want to buy a laptop and I visit the online retailers, normally 80% of the laptops come with Windows, 10% Linux and 10% Freedos or without any. I would very much welcome if the EU made it mandatory for manufaturers to offer the choice of OS when buying a new laptop. Just like you chose the color, how much RAM you wanted, SSD size, you could also chose what operating system you want it with. As part of that, manufacturers would be obliged to send a fix donation after every sold piece to the corresponding Linux distro team, which would help the chronic underfunding issue. Not sure how much the manufacturers pay for Windowsfor the license, but theoretically the Linux equivalent machine should be cheaper even after the donation. Any views are welcome.
Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop
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As we all know, the EU loves regulation, sometimes even overregulation. One area where I feel that regulation would help is computer hardware sale. When I want to buy a laptop and I visit the online retailers, normally 80% of the laptops come with Windows, 10% Linux and 10% Freedos or without any. I would very much welcome if the EU made it mandatory for manufaturers to offer the choice of OS when buying a new laptop. Just like you chose the color, how much RAM you wanted, SSD size, you could also chose what operating system you want it with. As part of that, manufacturers would be obliged to send a fix donation after every sold piece to the corresponding Linux distro team, which would help the chronic underfunding issue. Not sure how much the manufacturers pay for Windowsfor the license, but theoretically the Linux equivalent machine should be cheaper even after the donation. Any views are welcome.
The difference is that I realized that even before this hype I tended to purchase European. The only thing that I had to change is to drop Google, and now I'm in the process of dropping Windows as well. Apart from that, my household is full of things made in the EU.