That’s what you get for dabbling with computers. Of course there’s many ways to do one thing. There’s many ways to do one thing with Lego, for fucks sake. Do you really expect computers to be simpler?

Look at the properties of the file in dolphin. It will show you various file signatures checksums.

That’s because the computer most people actually need is a tablet.

Installing Windows machines 10+ years ago wasn’t much more fun either… (I’m not sure it’s any more fun these days, but I haven’t done it in ages, so I’ve no idea).

In the last twenty years, I’ve pretty much only had nVidia hardware for graphics with very few issues.

Of course that wasn’t in laptops. Having a GPU in a laptop is asking for trouble anyway in my opinion.

I’ve been using Linux for over thirty years and the nice looking App Stores that have appeared those last few years have always been shit and have always been mostly broken in various ways. I don’t know why.

On the other hand, the ugly frontends to the package manager just work.

Or you could be in Arkham.

Isn’t the problem that it’s blocked by a number of patents, or something like that?

Linux runs just fine in 4. Or much less. It depends a lot on what you use it for. My 486 had a whooping 32 Megs of memory and ran Linux just fine.

Regarding MS, the main problem is the changing of the goalpost. And I’m not so sure there’s even any point to the whole TPM thing anyway.

They’re the ones that keep making the requirements more and more unreasonable with every update.

People use the command line because it’s so much faster and more convenient. But there’s often a gui tool. I use Yast from time to time. It has its uses too. It’s slower though (if you know the syntax).

Because when there’s a new hardware function, the driver has to add support for it.

Tumbleweed will update six months of packages or more without breaking a sweat. It’s all about using something sturdy.

It’s a WIMP system. They all work the same way. Worst case you have to click around a bit.

[…] in reality they just know how it works

In my experience, they know how a few utilities and how a handful of programs work, but have no idea how Windows works. Not that many people actually know how Windows works.
Roughly figuring out the boot sequence of Linux is relatively easy once you’ve used it for a year or two. What happens when Windows boots? Who knows? kernel32 probably is involved at some point.

Linux/Unix is actually relatively simple and logical once you’ve figured it out. Windows is a messy dark maze with grues waiting at every corner to eat you.

Install Linux on…

Never mind, carry on.

I do change the background image every now and then.

Only one belief can be right.

Or many could be right, or none. Although with how much difference it seems to make, it probably doesn’t matter much.

We don’t want a viditor, we want an editor. Why? Because ed is the standard!

Anything can be Unix if you’re willing to pay for the certification.