It has the brand recognition of being "the" Linux distro, even though it doesn't deserve that title these days (if it ever did at all).
carlytm
joined 2 years ago
Didn't even notice them until they were pointed out in another thread a few days ago, honestly they seem, at worst, harmless. I disagree with them ideologically in a lot of ways, but I don't really think they're actively harmful. It's not as though they're posting hate speech or anything like that.
Found a PDF of the complaint from another article, which says "since at least January 2023" on page 15, so, take that as you will.
Damn, I have one of these that I use a lot for work, it's been pretty reliable so far, but this makes me think I should get something else to replace it...
Who would've thought that an incredibly dubious claim to "ownership" of a JPEG image would fall in value so dramatically?
"Bravephobes"
Maybe I'm just living under a rock but I hadn't even heard of, let alone seen, Hexbear prior to this post and had to do a search to see what you were talking about. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
"Surely all the people who share subscriptions because they can't all afford 25 streaming services will each get their own accounts if we block password sharing, as opposed to just not using our services any more!"
Yep, pretty much. If your system works, no need to change it.
The biggest advice I can give is to start with something like, as has been mentioned, Linux Mint, but also, don't buy into the idea that you eventually need to move to a more "advanced" distro. If Mint, or wherever you wind up, works for you, and you have no compelling reason to switch, then don't. All Linux is Linux, so to speak, the only things that distinguish distros are packages/package managers, default settings/configurations, and pre-installed programs. There's nothing preventing you from eventually becoming a power-user on a "noob-friendly" distro, if that's something you desire in the first place.
Do...do people really think Microsoft is stupid enough to kill off non-cloud based Windows? There are a lot of Windows users who, for either performance reasons, lack of reliable internet, etc. who would never get good use out of a cloud version. Microsoft is more than aware of this and there is no way in hell they'd shoot themselves in the foot like this.
I've actually had a pretty good experience with my NVIDIA card on GNOME Wayland, but KDE was unusable.