Pretty sure this is exactly what the "immutable OS" is for, like what's found in Fedora Silverblue (and less notably in the SteamDeck).
It essentially lets you break whatever you want in userland, but it mounts the root filesystem in read-only, and literally re-images the entire machine each update w/ the added bonus of halting and rolling back the update if any errors are detected during the update. All of which occurs "magically" behind the scenes upon shutdown, so it requires essentially little to no user interaction to manage core updates.
Also all graphical software is limited to flatpaks, so you really take out a lot of the user confusion about installing on Linux and dealing with system-specific weirdness.
I want to preface this with noting that I 99% agree with you on this, but to be fair Windows "just works" right up until it doesn't.
What got me off Windows was how frequently all the UWP-powered system apps (like Screenshot Tool, Calculator, etc.) and even core stuff like Explorer would just have some key functionality just break randomly.
Not implying that programs on Linux don't also just randomly shit themselves, but to pretend that Windows just works is a bit silly.
I've never understood the issues people have with Nvidia on Linux.
I've got a 3080, powering 3 monitors, using EdeavourOS, running the closed-source drivers.
Genuinely zero issues so far, and yet everytime I mention it I get a bunch of alleged know-it-alls telling me how terrible my experience should be lol.
Windows has it's serious flaws, and I would never willingly go back to it at this point, but the installer is too hard? This sounds like a you-issue rather than a Windows one.
Yes, the subscription option has a monthly/yearly/lifetime structure set at $2/$17/$100 respectively.
Each of those unlocks all the Ultra features (which includes removing ads).
Which is separate from the one time payment of the $20 to only remove ads.
Easily the surface-linux kernel project, that level of dedication is incredible and without I wouldn't have my favorite laptop running linux right now.
And probably all of KDE's various developers if possible, since I both love the actual desktop environment and all the various tools they provide (like Elisa, Kdenlive, and KDE Connect).
You have completely misread the app. The "Sync Ultra" is not the same as the one-time "Remove Ads" option.
If you want "Sync Ultra" for a lifetime, it's $100 or w/e it's listed as, that comes with all the extra features listed in the app.
If you just want to remove ads and use the app without the Ultra features, you only have to pay $20 once.
Right, and that's totally fair. But one might expect a more tech savvy userbase to at least try and understand what's going on or being said by other users. Instead, there's just a lot of parroting going on, which is disappointing and also kinda needlessly harmful to the app's / dev's reputation among the users here.
If you used the DuckDuckGo browser, it can act as a fake "VPN" to intercept and block tracking requests from other apps on your phone.
Multiple users have shown in the comments of a bunch of different threads that none of the tracking links are firing off when you load / use the app if you've already paid for either the one-time support or the subscription model.
The Android and iOS apps don't actually run games, they're essentially just the store and community tabs + SteamGuard. The hardware survey explicitly exists to tally up what kinds of hardware is actually being used to play games on Steam, so that's why it's not counted.
You'd think that, but so many of these users complaining don't understand how ad serving works. They're acting like this is some outrageous conspiracy to gather user data by the dev himself, or are being willfully ignorant about the proof that none of ad tracking SDK even loads when you use either the one time removal or the subscription.
I really thought that most of the early adopter crowd for a federated service like this would be at least mildly technical. But no, that's a stupid assumption in hind sight.
Because I want to support the developer? Sync has had a ton of work put into it over the last few years, it's a non trivial task for a developer to commit that much time to a free app.
I also hate patreon, so $17 a year is a steal. It's also literally like a chipotle burrito every 12 months. I think I can fit that into the budget.
$20 once, for an app you're going to use daily for the foreseeable future mind you, is not the unreasonable take that people on here seem to think it is.
You get what you pay for, and Sync has proven it's track record with the Reddit app already. This isn't just some random app dev asking for money on his bejeweled clone.
Just finished a watch, incredible job pulling all of the great parts from the show together into a very convincing "movie".
There were a few (like literally one or two) rough / noticeable jump-like cuts which I imagine were just unavoidable with the source material and what you needed to do with those scenes.
Overall this is a fantastic edit, you should be very proud of this and I have already recommended it to a lot of my friends and will continue to do so (probably in lieu of ever suggesting the show itself lol).
Yeah, it's an impressive amount of work and more options is always a good thing, but there's really no reason to go out of your way to buy a new MBP just to run Linux. Though I wonder what the used M1 market is looking like these days.
Pretty sure this is exactly what the "immutable OS" is for, like what's found in Fedora Silverblue (and less notably in the SteamDeck).
It essentially lets you break whatever you want in userland, but it mounts the root filesystem in read-only, and literally re-images the entire machine each update w/ the added bonus of halting and rolling back the update if any errors are detected during the update. All of which occurs "magically" behind the scenes upon shutdown, so it requires essentially little to no user interaction to manage core updates.
Also all graphical software is limited to flatpaks, so you really take out a lot of the user confusion about installing on Linux and dealing with system-specific weirdness.