Yeah, exactly, when you want to do a full upgrade it’s technically best practice to check if there’s anything which requires intervention. But I never bother honestly, and the one time there was an issue it was resolved by just uninstalling one package for another.

It does still happen occasionally that updates need some intervention, it is still policy that you should check the blog in case, but it’s only happened once in the last two years for me.

I worked in France for a while and I deeply agree with everything you said… Except μ is by far the most useful Greek letter since it is used as a prefix for units of measurement, e.g. μm, μL, etc.

Also the Swiss layout is even worse, it combined all the bad features of the French and German keyboards and then just moves around all the symbols a bit more for good measure.

Firefox hasn’t broken like that for me in years, it tells me it needs to restart because it was upgraded in the background and restores the session perfectly, usually

Over 30 years of support :)

Well you can run doom on Linux, so obviously yeah

With Windows if you don’t have a tpm you have to get a whole new computer lol

“there’s no such thing as the cloud, just other people’s computers tiny water droplets”

That should obviously be help!! like with sudo

24-hour time is equally uncommon in Australia and New Zealand, but it looks like it could be one of them based on the currency conversion, could also be Singapore though, which has Dollars very close in value to those

Two “program files” folders, user and generic “appdata”, wherever the user unpacks things, yeah

Yeah depending on your hardware things like that can still happen sometimes. I don’t think it’s a lot more common than on other OSes. It’s especially not really usual for something as basic as network drivers to misbehave though, especially suddenly. For what it’s worth, my experience trying to use Zotero on Windows on both MS word and LibreOffice writer was also a glitchy mess. Anyway, hope you try it again another time when you are under a bit less pressure and it works out better for you then.

Can you fiddle up a weird black screen with lots of $ and # symbols? Yes, its a Unix and its probably Linux.

You heard it here first folks, windows is a Unix and probably Linux!

It’s not that you neeeed it for most basic stuff, but if you search how to do something the results are more commonly terminal commands.

Yeah that’s what arch should actually be, cat ears and thigh-highs

Yeah, a pretty classic one, https://xkcd.com/1357/

“The fediverse” doesn’t ban anyone for anything, it’s not a monolith. Anyone can start their own server if they differ from existing ones. And if an instance is defederated by everyone too…

If you use arch (btw) it still does

Cars’ buttons need to be used while preferably not looking at them, that’s a pretty different situation to a smartphone

Mastodon doesn’t have low character limits, it’s not terrible for having a conversation