This normally isn’t a thing.

KDE by default doesn’t have a mac style global menu. If the third party extension that provides this looks fancy but doesn’t work perfectly ask the devs to do more free work or roll up your sleeves. In any case its not part of KDE.

If you use a proper style sheet/dark theme for both QT and GTK and set flatpak to use it you really shouldn’t have any complaints about dark themes save for websites. Trying to make websites all dark themed is a fools errand. You’ll eventually find that some don’t style right if you force it.

Use integer scaling. Buy devices that are 4K at 24-32 or 1080p at 11-14" you know the most common sizes?

Mint has basically contained bad decision making by Ubuntu and individual versions are supported for 5 years. The average computer lasts 6 before replacement.

Mint is fairly future proof I think.

Have you considered that just “reaping old process IDs” wasn’t enough responsibility for an init daemon on a secure, robust system? That maybe it should be protecting other parts of the system and tracking the liveness of a desired service?

What is the benefit of specifically doing that in init?

If I see an argument like this then I can only assume the interlocutor doesn’t do software engineering.

Its more likely that the user simply has simple needs like running stuff at startup which any init system can do and doesn’t see as much benefits as poster.

Also who loves systemd-resolved?

https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/t/advantages-of-zfs-on-a-single-disk-vs-btrfs/850

Wonder why not set a maximum width and have the de respect it eg you maximize and the window grows to max height but not max width

It needed those things brought in through the back door because the code was a steaming pile of shit security wise and would have been rejected at the front door.

This is already part of the trusted computing spec its called “remote attestation” I would actually expect it more targeted at multimedia who are hot to keep you from copying their stuff and banks.

Data recovery isn’t impossible. You can easily back up the recovery key. This is just typical Microsoft shit design.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/back-up-your-bitlocker-recovery-key-e63607b4-77fb-4ad3-8022-d6dc428fbd0d

He got pissed and called someone a bleeping n word. This isn’t really just a bad word its not like he said shit. It is gross behavior and it wouldn’t just “slip out”, as he said after the fact, if he weren’t actually racist.

Ya you are holding it wrong. If it wants a different basic library version than you have available to you then the solution is never ever to somehow go and get the library this will never ever ever work and will only succeed in breaking your entire system as all the other stuff now doesn’t work with the new library.

Sounds like self inflicted pain. If you absolutely needed the latest why are you simultaneously running debian again?

Did you buy a machine that comes with Linux and just turn it on and let it update? Alternatively did you buy something for Windows and act shocked when the wifi card was crap and refuse to buy one that actually works for $20?

Honestly Linux Mint was ready for normal people a decade ago.

Everyone has a right to go their own way. Everyone has a right to have an opinion on how you go your own way.

And no, it doesn’t run worse

Flatpaks that aren’t official products of the source project sometimes have interesting issues pertaining to their permissions, are harder to set as the handler for files, harder to enable usage of system tools, don’t follow system themes, are harder to start or use from the command line, and yes start slower than native apps.

I like the idea that even stable distros can have latest stuff easily or distros which don’t package a given project. I use a few myself. It is certainly annoying that it ends up teaching people about what dirs they need to share with flatseal, flatseal, desktop files, and the command line for something which is supposed to simplify things.

Kinda feels like less work to use rolling release with a more comprehensive set of packages.

There’s a good reason why there is no GUI installer in arch (aside from being able to load it into ram).

This is the dumbest conceit of the arch community. I learned Linux using Fedora back when regular usage required more know how than installing arch does and it was enormously helpful to have something you could click and install and THEN learn in a functional environment. Also following the guide isn’t THAT hard its just a waste of effort for a million people to do so.

There really aren’t any simple settings for grub that need a GUI and honestly the systemd service CLI for enabling starting and disabling is pretty damn easy

Ads are…already a thing. Shit like putting candy crush which allows you to spend real money to pay to win. Search suggestions in the start menu. The app store is an attempt at an Apple style money grab except the money grab only exists on the apple side because its the only way to get apps on the machine and MS never got much out its store in comparison.

Ads and subscriptions would already have happened if they had succeeded in using secure boot to lock machines out of alternative OS

This is hardly a blatant lie.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/get-rid-of-ads-in-your-windows-10-start-menu/ This is from 2015

https://www.cnet.com/tech/who-wants-ads-in-their-windows-11-start-menu-heres-how-to-turn-them-off/ and now

The fact that you haven’t noticed this doesn’t mean its made up

Obsoleting a lot of relatively recent fast hardware means people are either faced with a fuck off or complicated work arounds. Then there is forcing people to log in with their MS email account which they may not have or want or again forcing people into complicated work arounds. The implicit privacy issues of recall if it was rolled out as planned.

Ads in the windows UI both exiting and planned. The fact that they have discussed the idea of making Windows a monthly/annual fee.

Then the carry overs from 10 The fact that the start menu search is less useful than any linux DE or windows XP Re-enabling crap that people disabled on purpose Certain kinds of links opening in Edge even if people use chrome