From reading online, it seems to be a feature of some segments of the US market.

I’m currently using my first Samsung device in a while (handed down by someone who didn’t like it) and it’s just like any other phone.

I’m not in the US though.

What I could hold against them is how some of their devices have extra features enabled within the brand’s ecosystem. I understand it’s a basic way to keep users with the brand without being too harsh (everything still works with another appliance after all), but it’s still a bit crummy.

We can’t tell you. It’s a secret.

Ten minutes? What are you doing for the other eight? Basking in the warmth of a job well done?

There’s no purpose. It’s 100% security theatre.

They even made a movie about it!

You’d get to hang with a rat too.

Amazing. They put a screen on one side and cameras on the other!

What incredible things will they come up with next?

I agree about that today, but it wasn’t always so easy to install linux for noobs as it is now.

And yet we still did it. From floppies.

Ubuntu’s role in the ecosystem is important.

I think it used to be. There’s still some inertia, but Canonical has used up a lot of goodwill through the years and other distributions have picked up the slack.
Nowadays I wouldn’t point a newcomer towards Ubuntu. It’s trash. Just use anything else.

Up to date and stable. Best of both worlds.

I’ve run OpenSuSE and then Tumbleweed for a while (as in years, now) on a variety of devices (including nVidia) with no real issues. It’s been by far the most solid of the distributions I’ve used since I started using Linux in the '90s.

More characters than Ascii? Surely you must be mistaken.

Oooh, I’ve had that with some device. I think it was a camera or something like that. I’d forgotten about it. It took me ages to figure it out.

It’s always been for USeR binaries. It’s the first time I’ve seen this bizarre backronym (40 years of Unix here).

That’s what a ligature is. Combining two characters so they don’t clash.

Did they Google windows error messages?

Commercial software compatibility has always been poor. It’s a classic way of locking users in.

A lot of people (regardless of age) have a very fuzzy idea (if at all) of what a file or a directory is. They wouldn’t know a operating system if it sat on their face.

The only way to get them to use Linux is to switch the system on their computers. And they’ll probably manage just fine(after a bit of initial grumpiness), since most interfaces are pretty much the same anyway.

But they’re never going to change on their own.

They’re in Linux now, it should show the shortcuts they’ll encounter everywhere. Not leftovers from another system.

But it’s got blockchain!

(does that actually still get any vc excited nowadays?)