This is why I never bought a second Samsung phone. The one I bought was pretty nice, but the the huge amount of crapware that could not be uninstalled really ruined the experience for me.

How do you do that?

It won’t happen any time soon unless Ubuntu does something drastic. I do think it would be a good idea for them to move in that direction, though.

Are you listening, Clem?

I’m not in any way saying that they shouldn’t have done that.

On the other hand, it was a cool product that many people would have enjoyed. And now it’s gone.

I said “not very sporting”. That’s hardly a condemnation.

While Valve didn’t do anything wrong from a legal standpoint here, I still think that’s not very sporting of them.

I don’t think it’s too niche at all. It’s too expensive, of course, but if this was $600 or $700 they’d sell a lot of them. This is the kind of machine anyone who can operate a playstation can use. At a lower piece it would have a very broad appeal.

There are things this does that would be very difficult to achieve in a custom build. It’s very compact and quiet and has very good driver support without any tinkering. It’s a machine you hook up to your living room TV and for that it works very well, including CEC support which is not standard on PC hardware. The price is of course hard to swallow and performance isn’t great but i think this thing will definitely sell all the units they can possibly make.

Seconded. Absolutely what I’d install in this kind of situation. I have an old machine set up for my wife with Mint. She only uses it to check her bank account, basically. So far zero issues.

Not me. I really want a Linux phone but one that is artificially hobbled? No thanks.

It’ll come in like a wrecking ball.

Linux has always been more pragmatic and focused on getting stuff out that works now. BSD has always been a promise that might be better in theory but is of little practical use to most people.

Damn! How am i going to pay off the FBI for my pirated anime now?

Better start selling a kidney now.

It will be available globally beginning June 1, 2026, at $549.

Ha ha ha, good one.

I was trying to be funny. My point was simply that it’s going to be expensive.

If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

I wanted to build a brew PC this year. But I guess it’ll have to wait until the bubble bursts.