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Always the same gadlighters trick: acuse others of doing what you are doing.

And nothing of value was lost.

That's what this conversation is about. Normally I'd chastise people for not reading through to the body of the linked article, but this time it's right in the headline. You literally could not have reached this post without reading it at least once.

It's called having a conversation and typically in those people move past the starting point on to other related topics. There's no need to read malice into it.

You're welcome to not answer further, too.

Well, yeah. What kind of security do you think normies are running? They won't even get hijacked by an unpatched Windows 10 exploit, they'll just try to download The Last of Us by opening "WatchOnlineMoviesFree.exe" when a pop up tells them to.

Well exactly, although let's be honest: "normies" will ~~downgrade~~ upgrade to windows 11 because they always want the latest greatest thing.

Business operations will go with whatever is cheapest to maintain, which is the entire point of LTSC and the article in the link.

This might be true wherever you're from (I'm assuming US?) but it's in no way reality where I live. Here you must use a secure OS for businesses, you can't just use whatever.

I suppose. We would have to know if it's worth their while to work on security flaws (which I imagine they will put zero effort into and pretty much just answer to bounty hunter reports) for $30 a year.

But because I know Microsoft and am used to their shenanigans, I wouldn't hold my breath on that lasting for too long.

I personally use Fedora (starting yesterday actually), but Mint is definitely a serviceable distro that works for a wide variety of people.

I simply don't like how it stays so behind on updates (I see that as a big security and privacy risk), but if you don't need windows-only proprietary software, or all you do is browse the web, then Linux Mint is a familiar and usable enough distro.

If you're going to criticize Mint for being behind in packages, then you also need to criticize Debian, because that's where the philosophy comes from.

Wow! Thank you for going through the effort of figuring out whether there was a solution for me. I really appreciate it!

You're most welcome!

Which a shame because I do want Linux to be more widely used than it is currently, and I think small annoyances like this are part of what is holding it back.

And yes, I completely 100% agree. Hopefully there will soon be a fix for this, because like you said, it really sounds like something that should be able to be fixed relatively easily, lol.

Anyways, best of luck to you in the future!

Hey, so I just tested this and you're right, it doesn't work as you described.

I suppose I unconsciously found workarounds and just ran with it.

For the examples you mentioned:

I'm is achieved by typing ' and then space.

ç you can get with AltGr+<

The other two, I have no idea what they are, but I trust your judgment.

I also went around some forums and yeah it appears other people report it doesn't work as it should. A bummer.

Maybe there already are some custom keyboard layouts out there you can download?

To get

I hear you, but me get this straight:

Windows fleeced you out of a technology they were supposed to support for the years to come, but you're still gonna snide Linux and stay with Windows? Lol.

How long do you expect that to last?

Sounds lovely, thank you for that feedback. I'm very excited to try. I'm gonna try to install Aurora OS (immutable) and boot from a pendrive on my wife's Mac (it has an Intel processor still, so it should be fine). If everything works well, I'm sure shell be very happy.

I predict the big replacement for supported Windows 10 will be unsupported Windows 10. I expect that's a pretty safe bet

Famous last words before getting a keylogger that leads to all your bank accounts being drained due to lack of security patches.

Also, this is pretty much not possible (if not illegal) for business operations since those generally require having a secure OS to work on.