Canonical always used GNOME and I don’t see that’s changing.

except during the period when they used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28user_interface%29

You don't have to pretend. Different strokes for different folks. I like KDE, you like gnome. Let's hope they both prosper and give more people reasons to leave Windows.

Using it for years now on my VPS with rootless podman containers and steam game servers. The hardware is moderately dimensioned but it performs very well and is extremely reliable. Never had a borked OS upgrade. Is there any reason you'd advise against it?

At the end of the day it's still Linux, and it's really well supported by documentation, packages and how tos. I tried Debian and ran into some driver issues Ubuntu solved. Why worry so much and just use what works. I'm sure Ubuntu server minimal is similar in weight to Debian anyways.

you need to build the kernel with clang to build the kernel with the rust support

I believe this statement is incompatible with how C works. The kernel can load modules written in any language as long as it outputs a .ko, so there can be no technical requirement for building the rest of the kernel itself with clang.

No. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/logger.1.html

No. Most distros have their primary DE. Ubuntu uses Gnome. And Kubuntu doesn't count as a different distro.

Why would you want to use Ubuntu as a server?

It is for me 🙂

When I say Ubuntu I’m typically talking about the Docker image or a VPS’ (non-desktop) server OS. I don’t want to use Ubuntu as a desktop OS so I’ve never given KDE vs GNOME thought at all.

Simply no. Canonical always used GNOME and I don't see that's changing.

From the user's point of view, if you discovered KDE you might have discover other distros as well. Kubuntu still be your start point though, or even where you settle.

Some of it is due to AI but much of it is people finally paying attention to security. For a long time no one thought about security vulnerabilities. These days many bugs in Linux are considered a security issue and thus gets there own CVE

Glad you had a good experience

It's natural to think that way if you don't think the implications through - like the infamous WWII plane showing holes in the fusilage and the implications on which parts of the aircraft needed reinforcement. :)

I haven't even looked at this yet but someone posted https://lwn.net/Articles/914632/ elsewhere in the thread, so sending it to you. As noted, less time to find in recent versions.

yes, you need to find the vulnerabilities before the hackers and it just so happens that LLMs aren't terrible at it.

Nice to know! So I can switch to the flatpak and not wait for my distro to ship it

If you put someone on a pedestal, they will eventually shit on you.

"such a lemmy moment" 🤣🥱

ai, protecting people from ai.

Many governments and secret groups sit on Zero day exploits for years until they need to use them.

Average people are finding them easier now using AI, which is a good thing. Instead of 3 letter organizations sitting on them.

Such a lemmy moment, unable to admit AI is capable of anything that might be considered useful.

Yes AI is good at writing bugs, it's also good at finding exploits.

Been away for almost a year and came back to many here thinking they're smarter than Torvalds. It's stunning. Goes with what I've been saying about broad DC hate, it's going to cause friendly fire.

i claimed no such thing. i asked for a graph because i was interested to know if that was the case.

and what we've been seeing in the industry lately is that llm use of any kind results in more regressions, because more code is created and it tends towards average quality.