China has ordered government offices to replace foreign-branded PCs and associated operating systems with alternatives that can be locally maintained. This includes dumping Windows in favor of Linux.
    • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
      183·
      3 years ago

      They have to make him look like a dictator somehow. It’s just more propaganda. Propaganda is everywhere in the west, especially here in the US.

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
        16·
        3 years ago

        Not a lot of people actually bother to look up how the Chinese government works so people actually think it’s just Xi running a country of 1.4 billion on his own

        • Insensata@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          3 years ago

          Running a country of 1.4 billion solely by your own is fucking metal tbh, they portray him as an impossibly cool guy.

  • kamraten@lemmygrad.ml
    25·
    3 years ago

    Based. Lenovo, ThinkPads especially + Linux is an unbeatable combo.

    Unrelated: What a shame that Linus isn’t a communist since his dad was an active one

  • NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml
    24·
    3 years ago

    Good, the rest of the country should be next. Now that I’m thinking about it, if China had a few tech companies developing Linux distros, I’m pretty sure they would surpass Windows with ease. The biggest challenges are usability and compatibility.

      • NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml
        8·
        3 years ago

        Definitely, they would say the evil CCP is spying on everything you do. Which is clearly not something Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram, and the rest do.

      • CritiGalDesist∞@lemmygrad.ml
        5·
        3 years ago

        People with even a bit of brain will know What Linux is and where it stands! The one not being able to differentiate between propaganda and facts is already a lost cause in this case/scenario.

  • holdengreen@lemmygrad.ml
    161·
    3 years ago

    Using Windows has always been a bad idea. At least run some version of it in a VM so that it is isolated and cannot do so much harm.

    • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
      111·
      3 years ago

      Or, better yet, use open-source programs that run well on Linux and don’t use Windows spyware masquerading as an OS.

      • holdengreen@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        3 years ago

        I’ve had the idea for a project where we take to Windows XP source leak and build a system from it. Or use React OS or wine or I think there was another one.

        • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
          6·
          3 years ago

          WINE is the best option for running Windows software without using Windows. I prefer not to use proprietary software though, and only do so when absolutely necessary, which is not very often outside of firmware blobs for device drivers. Luckily, I am a programmer, which means if something I want doesn’t exist, I just make it myself.

          • holdengreen@lemmygrad.ml
            2·
            3 years ago

            I think if u run wine then run it in a container, I don’t think it is totally containerized on its own. Not much inhibiting Linux on the desktop other than institutional adoption but we are getting that now.

            • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
              2·
              3 years ago

              It’s not completely containerized, but different WINEPREFIXes cannot access each other, and it’s still affected by Linux file permissions, so you can just use a different user and make a new WINEPREFIX for every program, and that would have the same effect. Running in a container works too, but can be a bit annoying for some programs.

  • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    3 years ago

    I’m curious, does anyone know what distro they will be using, or will they be making one themselves? In which case, will it be based off another distro?

    • folaht@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      3 years ago

      I’m curious too, but since I’ve been curious about this for two decades, I think it’s safe to say that they’ll be using Ubuntu Kylin, so based off Ubuntu.

      There’s only two other non-phone Chinese OSes I know of, DeepIn and RedFlag and I never see either of them ever being mentioned in relation to the Chinese goverment.

      • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        3 years ago

        That’s unfortunate if true. I don’t particularly like Canonical. I’d say Debian or directly Debian-based would be better.

        • folaht@lemmygrad.ml
          6·
          3 years ago

          Why is that?
          I kind of liked Ubuntu.
          It’s too bad their phone OS project failed, because it was a fun phone.
          I haven’t used it years though as I now prefer Manjaro.

          • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
            16·
            3 years ago

            Canonical is just another capitalist corporation. They included an Amazon ad with the Unity desktop for a while, for example. They also created a packaging format called snap that has a proprietary backend, and then proceeded to modify the APT package manager to use snap instead where possible without users knowing. Ubuntu now also enables telemetry out of the box without telling users or having an easy way to disable all of it in the GUI. Basically, normal capitalist idiocy.

            • angarabebesi
              2·
              3 years ago

              Canonical is the reason many people started to use linux, myself included. My first distro was Ubuntu 8.04 (a long long time ago). They are catering to the new users, which is why they do a lot of things that upset pro Linux users.

    • sometimes ashley@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      3 years ago

      I have run both Unity and Deepin (currently really popular in China) and they’re great, but not really for me. They seem to be designed to have a really nice, clean, simple user experience, and they do, but that’s just not what I need. Beautiful window managers though. Really nice.

      I should note also that the Deepin installer does not play well with certain NVMe storage, so be warned. I bricked a brand new drive with it lol.

      Edit: drive bricked for an unknown reason more likely

      • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        3 years ago

        How did an installer manage to brick a drive? I’ve messed up my drives a lot while learning how filesystems and partition tables work, but I have never been able to brick them (I actually tried once as an experiment). I wonder what they did to cause that.

        • sometimes ashley@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          3 years ago

          on second thought, it may have been a function of it going to sleep since right after it completed the installation, it booted once, went to sleep, and never came back. the drive isn’t detected anywhere anymore, not in bios, not by nvme list, not by lspci. I went “huh weird” and just popped a spare ssd in, meaning to figure it out later and never remembered to go back to it. that drive is still in here doing nothing lol

          so now that i say all that, it probably is sleep related.

          • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
            2·
            3 years ago

            Yeah, if it’s not detected by lspci or BIOS, I’d say it’s most likely dead forever. I’d say that it’s more likely to have been due to a defective drive than sleep. An NVMe drive like that is not easy to brick to that point. It would be either an electrical fault, or corruption of the controller firmware. There really isn’t anything else that would cause that, and I don’t see how sleep would have done it.

            • sometimes ashley@lemmygrad.ml
              2·
              3 years ago

              Hmm. Interesting. Those drives are very new tech to me (despite not really being that new lol) and idk much about them. Needless to say I’m nervous to try another one