Debian GNU/kFreeBSD was definitively a thing.

Luckily I bought the prime version in 2018 or so for a few cents. Means I only have to configure Lawnchair when I get a new phone. Win for laziness.

Just get the older APK form one of the mirror sites.

It’s a PR stunt if 99% AI is fine.

So 99% AI is OK if the last 1% was made by non-AI, a real dog bark or so.

They are trading with other counties even if not officially recognized as a separate entity. Their goal of being recognized is now farther away than it was before.

You claimed they were recognized before.

Why are you being so combative?

I’m not. You just claimed the polar opposite of what even the speculation in the video said. If you feel that pointing that out is combative, it’s a you problem.

They did though.

No, Somaliland was not recognized before. Did you watch the video you submitted? They clearly spell it out at 2:15. Everything about it backfiring for Somaliland is based on outright speculation that maybe UAE would bribe other countries to recognize Somaliland.

If it backfired for anyone, it did so for Israel. As they said in the video, it cheapened the Abraham Accords.

I can’t be arsed to change the font.

Others just set a DIN 1451 font such as the widely available Bahnschrift and have nothing to complain about.

Atomic distros have a set-back of having to deal with Package Layering in the case of those that aren’t found on Flathub. That’s a bit outside of the wheelhouse of a non-tech savvy person.

Today’s non-tech savvy persons usually want Chrome, VLC, and Steam. Yes, there are exceptions but I set up Linux PCs for a few people with unsupported Windows versions recently and they are just fine with that because all they do is to access web services from Chrome, playing back the occasional downloaded media file, and some games.

the seemingly endless random named things

When you dig down for a bit, you’ll even find out that Bazzite is merely the gaming flavor of “Universal Blue” and the generic desktop (without gaming stuff installed) is called Aurora.

I am always trying to steer new users away from Cinnamon, which means away from Mint.

I’m not a fan of Ubuntu and its derivates in general (short version of the reason: Ubuntu continues to enshittify, its derivatives fight an increasingly harder battle to apply plasters to fix Ubuntu) and the reality since a few years is that an increasing number of people become familiar with SteamOS, its immutability and Flatpak use, so the old battle ground of .deb vs .rpm, where system config files are stored, etc. has just outlived itself. “A Ubuntu variant is the best because that’s what online tutorials are about” is no longer relevant for the vast majority of people.

Reaper and Bitwig Studio are familiar apps for many audio producers.

At the very least go back the first English version of the article chain.

At the very least

What you implied is that if a story originally came from a non-English source then it’s automatically suspect.

No, I didn’t. Learn to read. I stressed the regurgitation of a regurgitation of a regurgitation as a “source”.

And maybe you want to count in playstation and Xbox.

Xbox runs Windows.

• https://flathub.org/apps/com.bitwig.BitwigStudio

• https://flathub.org/apps/fm.reaper.Reaper

Professional alternatives exist.

Have you ever noticed how vendors who ship computers with Linux often do so at the same or greater cost than Windows?

Yeah… Even when going to Linux exclusively, it’s usually better to pick the Windows device.

As long as they don’t need nividia drivers.

Luckily NVidia is rather selling their GPUs to AI datacenters than to home consumers.

To be fair, Windows has had standby issues forever

I have the same issues with my Intel MacBook. Maybe “background tasks can wake-up the system if needed” is not really needed on notebooks and actually a dumb concept for non-phone devices.

Modern Standby is the thing that causes your notebook to heat up when closing the lid and putting it into your backpack.

It only really works on my Surface, on my work’s ThinkPad it merely mostly works, on my private Asus gaming notebook it’s entirely broken.

Old standby on my Steam Deck is what works most reliable in my household.