I enjoy when the news headlines remind us they CAN be good

Best part of the joke is EXT4 partitions (and BTRFS, ZFS, etc too?) are invisible to Windows, so it’s just “flailing its gun” at the wind the whole time.

As an owner of an old pine phone, I can confidently say avoid for now. Not remotely ready or reliable enough.

People would be making TikTok videos eating asbestos and cramming it up their bums claiming it cures COVID

Glad you like it, not sure it’s a fit for my lazy living room machine though.

But there’s no memes out there!?

No worries, their machines rule, I have a bd790i motherboard!

Cool!

dynebolic

Ooh neat there’s one I’ve never heard of

LOVE Minisforum- but I’m looking for an interesting distro, not interesting hardware to run it on. :)

I’m a Plex guy so that part is appealing but I admit I mostly watch youtube in this scenario

Nix looks like a fun way to wild away 3 weeks, not entirely sure this is what I’m after for a living room TV box. :D

Okay this looks kinda neat, but the page says it “isn’t available for public use yet”? More of a DE/tweak than a distro?

Firefox/Mozilla operated without any of the new additions for nearly the entire history of the internet until this year. If anything, “over”-reacting to the new policies was too weak a reaction. You do you and all, but I’ll agree to very strongly disagree.

Mine is E2EE.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-firefox-i-loved-is-gone-how-to-protect-your-privacy-on-it-now/

That article says it better than I can in s short post. Firefox’s terms of use/privacy policy went over like a lead balloon last month.

I think it’s incredibly important that people know, with absolute certainty, whether or not the new Mozilla/Firefox privacy policy in any way applies to / covers such a service.

I’m not saying I know the answer- What I’m saying without a concrete, permanently applied answer it’s not even considerable.

Holy shit, Canon convinced you to install a mobile app? Who’s holding the gun to your head? We’ll dispatch authorities as soon as possible.

Been there. Accepted

To answer your questions though, I suggest the non-Cosmic version of Pop!OS. (and switch to wayland if it’s not the default yet- not sure, I’ve had this install for YEARS) It’s a good blend of “just works” and “up to date enough” to run anything, and I recommend steering well clear of Arch. I’ve been using Linux for a decade and I’ve always found a way to whoopsie it into a broken state. That’s a “me problem” yes, but if I can fudge it up that easily and I have experience using it, I think it’s unsuitable to recommend to anyone.

Most people live in a web browser- does it really matter if the desktop environment isn’t riced enough or isn’t windows-ey enough? That said, it takes actual hackery to make any version of Windows usable these days, so I’ll forgive a distro not being “absolutely elite” for someone’s preferences. Let’s not compare Linux forums to Windows forums, where no-one has ever, I repeat ever received ANY useful advice besides reinstalling their Windows, am I right?

I typed 6 words. Are you alright