"Microsoft has reached a deal to purchase Linux"
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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What a horrifying timeline that would be!
You're too late. The rebellion has flown away.
"Linus Torvalds sold his share of Linux to Microsoft for $1.8B"
1.8B is way too cheap for something as big as Linux, hell fucking Minecraft sold for 2B
If I were in charge of a distro I'd push this as an update on April Fools Day
Which is part of why I'd be a bad pick for the position XD
Mark my words. There will be Linux that does this and it will be the most popular distro.
Don't give Canonical ideas.
... time to re-boot development on Hannah Montana Linux, it is then...
You DID NOT activate Linux!
wrecking ball crashes through both your desktop, and also random parts of the actual file structure
Ubuntu pro?
Yeah, I was gonna say, it already exists
And it will be legal to fork it and remove that, yay GPL!
Consumers want bad tech
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Please provide your address, email address, phone number, and a scan of your ID card to activate Linux.
Maybe your bank login just in case.
Oh, you have more than 4GB of RAM? Looks like the Linux Starter Edition subscription wonβt be enough for you. Youβll need to upgrade to Linux Pro Home Studio with Copilot Standard for $35 a month
Ubuntu has that dumb subscription to get security updates that pushed me away. Sure it was free for personal use, but I don't want to have to give my personal information to get updates that are created primarily by volunteer open source developers anyway.
What do you think canonical should charge for? They do put a ton of work into the linux eco system
Y'know...this. I might not like it, and many of their choices are... questionable...
...but I think it's good we have some effort coming from full-time career paid Linux developers, rather than just sponsorship money from FOSS-leeches like "mEtA" and "aMaZoN."
By simply not using Ubuntu, and ignoring the MOTD on my VM servers...I don't really feel affected by their actions in any meaningful way. And that makes me happy.
As opposed to having to just accept whatever new footgun Microsoft wants to blast users with next.
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I don't understand what's the bonus of suscribing for those updates. Are they better or come before everyone else gets them?
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as far as I understand it, they aren't directly from upstream, canonical makes or backports those patches.
that's the whole point, subscribing gets you patches before the devs of the packages do for that version
Exactly. But the corporations do it because it benefits them more than starting from scratch. They should release all changes to the central repository for all to consume as part of the agreement to get the benefit of the already created software. Not hold onto the patches to give them to their customers and people who pay them with their personal information.
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subscribing gets you patches before the devs of the packages do for that version
Why would anyone want this?
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Best I can do is:
You must activate Linux within 30 days.
\ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\\ ||----w | || ||
echo "H4sIAAAAAAAAA1OIJwpw2SgE5KQmFqcqOCaXZJYllqQq+GTmlVYolGeWZGTmKRgbKKQkVhYr2HEp\
6BIFuBSQgEaMviZUQCM+X6EGJqmvgGDHABHULQoIIQjQzEcYp18DNh+hEaiuBirDBQApvkoY7gAAAA==" \
| base64 -d | gzip -dPretty sure I'm not gonna be running anything involving "gzip -d", seems like probably a bad idea, lol.
coward, I bet you don't pipe curl into bash either.
Ahah, ah... yeah, yep, uh, you got me, stinkin little coward over here.
But uh hey, I could always try that out on your PC, right big bro?
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Turn On Linux Backup Sign-in to your Linux Account to automatically save your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures to TuxDrive!
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canonical: that can be arranged
I want a wallpaper.
There's a Mac version labeled (horrific). So many levels to unpack there.
It hurts to download something from Limewire. Every time. I am aware that it is not the same place where an album was actually 4000 viruses anymore but I still react instinctively.
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Cool thanks. π
WOO.
I'm pretty sure there's a GNOME extension for it as well.
sudo activate
done
systemctl disable activationcheck.service
systemctl mask activationcheck.service
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Zorin OS is (last I checked) not free for the full version. IDK how they enforce that considering they are still open-source, but you can only get Zorin OS Lite for free. You have to pay to get the full OS. I've just always found that funny.
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Dear God, that would wake me up sweating
Fedora has a Gnome Shell extension that adds Fedora over the wallpaper.
Shouldn't be hard to make your dreams a reality
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