Are you trying to say I shouldn’t hit myself in the face with a hammer? That’s just looksmaxxing brah. Shit is clutch af

Narrator: they definitely are not into that shit.

None of what you describe here is fine.

I always thought the default font used by notepad, courier, is monospace. But I mostly stopped using windows years ago so maybe that changed

*sometimes

Are you saying that extensibility is the same thing as bloat? Weird take if so.

Oh did they renew their ssl certs so their repos work now?

Lol I cannot understand how anyone can trust those idiots at this point.

Fear and ignorance

But how will I sub to billionaire domsss??? This is blasphemy! Burn the witch!!!

X11 supporting it likely doesn’t mean that all software would support it flawlessly. What about Wayland?

I cannot even conceive of how angles not based on 90° increments would render various things without issues. Or why you’d want that.

It tracks that the guy I saw raging about linux more than once is defending bloat lol

Yeah, may have been. I haven’t been following many distros too closely until the past ~2-3 years.

After thinking some more on this, I think it may actually be preferable to suggest “flavor of the week” distros as long as they have a well supported base distro. In fact, I just thought about something a graphic designer coworker brought up a while back – he had been looking into Linux and had been hearing good things about a distro I still haven’t heard of anywhere but from him. It does kinda look decent: https://getaurora.dev/en/. Given that its base is immutable: Universal Blue, it seems like a solid choice for someone like him, as long as he can run a few graphic-y apps he might wanna use, like Krita and Inkscape, maybe Gimp. I think folks who are younger than me, like this coworker, are more open to picking up new tools instead of just clinging to Adobe garbage no matter what, and that’s a really good thing for the FOSS ecosystem as a whole! May be a good idea to let folks like that have a distro more catered to their aesthetic sensibilities. The base distro matters most for sure.

Well said.

Yeah, I think that’s the thought process. And I’m not sure regarding the kernel version, but imo that’s the most important thing to stay relatively up to date on.

You might be right, I’m not even sure what his actual intelligence level is and I didn’t express myself well. I just don’t like the fuck. He was at his most charming when he did the video with Actual Linus™ and he still kind of got on my nerves. And unlike some others, I do not think his criticism of Linux is constructive. And unlike others, I do not find the gamer Nexus expose on him to be a dismissable hit piece, because to me it showed a shady corrupt business relationship with hardware companies and sloppy benchmarking. Not to mention the sexual harassment accusations, which I find credible.

I advise against dual booting from one drive anyhow. Not because it doesn’t work just fine in concept, but because windows literally nukes the boot data randomly sometimes. It’s fucking insane but it’s a real thing that happens. Seems like something you can only call malware but instead we call it windows.

Think of him what you want,

Will do. He keeps damaging the reputation of the only real alternative to windows and he might be getting paid by Microsoft to do it. The last time he did this was fucking absurd. The terminal basically told him not to type a command unless he absolutely knew well what he was doing and he did it anyway. I will always maintain that if a user reads a lengthy and terrifying warning and then proceeds without any research, they have invited data and OS loss.

we as a Linux community need to stop recommending flavors of the month.

That’s not my experience of what happens. In fact I think it’s a problem that 95% of the suggestions I see are for Mint, and, unpopular opinion, I actually think Mint kinda sucks.

we never tell newbies what to base their distro choice upon

I don’t find that to be true at all