I didn’t. Last time I looked, it was still in the early stages.

And you don’t actually have to upgrade daily. I often wait a couple weeks or more and the machines don’t care one way or the other.

Sure.

I run Tumbleweed, but people are free to do their thing.

I think you’re confusing user interfaces and API structures there.

Also file systems don’t have to be in the kernel. User space file systems are a thing and work fine.

In that case you’re left with applications implementing it, and hoping for something homogeneous. Which may or may not happen.
I wouldn’t trust it.

Folders, or directories, really, may not be worthwhile, but when you have more than fifteen files, they’re quite convenient.

Besides, Plasma can look like anything else anyway, so why switch?

Twenty years ago, you’d run it every now and then because it was kind of fun. I’m not sure if it counts as actually using it though. There were actual window managers for that.

I’m not sure what the use case is nowadays, I’ll have to install it someday.

I’m glad I don’t have to go through this shit

I’ve thought that so many times seeing people’s children around me.

I agree that many recipes are poorly written. Especially non professional stuff from the web.

Still, I’d hate to prepare anything without having weighed all my ingredients beforehand.

I see that you don’t bake much. 🙂

make && make install

Done.

If it’s your os drive that dies, nothing important has been lost except for a few minutes of work. You can boot from a variety of media (cd, usb…) for recovery, or drive replacement. Worst case, you’ll have to reinstall a few things in the following days.

It’s also why it’s not a bad idea to separate the various aspects of the system on distinct drives.

The OS is the least important part of your computer.

Android may be vaguely user friendly, but it’s horrible to use for anything except launching a self-contained app.

So it’s ok-ish for phones, but horrible as a general purpose system.

For a grey background, yellow text is usually preferred.

We can’t tell you. It’s a secret.

Ten minutes? What are you doing for the other eight? Basking in the warmth of a job well done?

There’s no purpose. It’s 100% security theatre.

I agree about that today, but it wasn’t always so easy to install linux for noobs as it is now.

And yet we still did it. From floppies.

Ubuntu’s role in the ecosystem is important.

I think it used to be. There’s still some inertia, but Canonical has used up a lot of goodwill through the years and other distributions have picked up the slack.
Nowadays I wouldn’t point a newcomer towards Ubuntu. It’s trash. Just use anything else.