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Tape is rated to a 30-year shelf life under ideal conditions.

Good luck when SSDs are less reliable when powered off than HDDs, and still pricier for huge capacities.

This was bound to happen, someone was going to attack the Nazi propaganda platform formerly known as Twitter at some point.

At least you can still use your older hardware, and at least Radeon cards as old as GCN1 are still actively supported outside of Windows.

Also, old games still exist and will continue to exist in some form into the foreseeable future, legitimately or not.

Like, if you’re not into multiplayer games, the Mesa drivers last time I thought still work well, great even, on Polaris and Vega cards as well as even legacy GCN on the Linux side of things, you can still use your RX 580 or 590 with full support going that route, for example.

You got Fooyin as a viable, and even really good, open alternative to Foobar2k.

Element’s still Electron-based for the desktop app, given Electron is Chromium and Google has the final say over Chromium, that doesn’t make it trustworthy at least in my opinion and I’m sure others’ opinions too.

You can always build a PC and not have to deal with that UEFI signing stuff as you’re expected to provide your own OS still, that option hasn’t been eliminated yet.

Also, AMD cards are more friendly to Linux users than Nvidia cards are, even with the existence of NVK for the latter; NVK only supports Turing and newer cards and Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta are too old for it, and since Nouveau is broken on Maxwell and newer by firmware signing, once those cards lose support in the proprietary drivers, unless NVK gets backported to them somehow, you’ll be SOL in the near future for 900-series, 10-series, and the Titan V, while Kepler and older is still supported by Nouveau, meanwhile over at AMD, Mesa actively supports Radeon cards going back to GCN1.

Basically, if you still have an R9 Fury or an RX 580 sitting around, for example, those cards will still be actively supported by Mesa open drivers for the foreseeable future, meanwhile your GTX 980Ti or 1080Ti, at least currently, are fully at the mercy of Nvidia’s closed drivers.

And so far LibreWolf and Icecat have both worked fine for me.

Wouldn’t that also block Firefox by proxy?

It’s going to get to the point where you might be better off going back to dot matrix if tank-based inkjet printers are somehow locked down via chemical DRM too.

I thought AutoCAD was pretty much the industry standard for CAD unless something changed.

Some governments outside the US either already have or are ditching Windows for Linux.

In the US at least, the courts are seemingly bought out.

Icecat’s good too. In fact in some ways, eg. cutting Sync out entirely where LibreWolf disables it by default but lets you enable it if desired, it’s even better than LibreWolf.

LibreWolf, or if you can tolerate some breakage, PaleMoon or Basilisk (I say ‘if you can tolerate some breakage’ because Goanna is hard-forked from old ESR code, and PaleMoon and Basilisk are both Goanna-based).

Good thing LibreWolf and other forks exist, including hard forks like the Goanna browsers.

No it’s not, it’s based on BSD, or more specifically Darwin, which is derived from BSD, so Unix-like, but not Linux.

Although, oddly, macOS is a certified UNIX OS so it can rightfully sit at the table with the SysV distros such as AIX, HP-UX, or Solaris, but it’s nothing like those OSes in its nature.

Plus RawTherapee and DarkTable are pretty good, and actually free, Lightroom alternatives to boot.

Good thing whenever I set up Windows, Notepad is one of the things I nuke, using Geany to replace it.

This is a bad sign if MS gets emboldened and starts paywalling basic OS functionality at some point in the future, though.

Fooyin, VLC, and Kodi.