I think their point was that MacOS -> GNOME was a smoother transition than a diffetent desktop environment would have been, which led to them naturally discovering more keyboard-oriented workflows. Not that GNOME is any more keyboard oriented than other DEs.

Nature is healing

As already mentioned, Ubuntu/PopOS/Kubuntu/Mint are maybe the four most identical distros in the entire ecosystem. But your point really does hold true even with less-identical distros.

Currently, I have an Ubuntu Server, an Arch PC, and an old laptop “test machine” running Fedora. These are totally different limbs of the Linux family tree, but things pretty much work the same in all of them. The main difference is the package manager: Apt vs Pacman vs DNF. But like, they’re all doing basically the same thing under the hood: checking your installed software against some repository to see if anything needs an update. The actual workflow is pretty much the same with any of them.

After that it’s pretty much just a question of downloading the desktop environment and software you like. Or finding a distro that comes pre-installed with what you want. To make a gaming analogy: linux distros are like Dark Souls classes: starting stats and equipment, but the starting point doesn’t lock you into your you build in the future.

NixOS is a different beast for sure.

Mint is a good choice for your first linux.

The most proper use for a Real Book.

Loose leaf tea, re-steeped several times over the course of the day. The caffeine content goes down with each successive stepping, but good quality whole leaves will still let you get several cups out of them.

I stop making it at 3, which usually gives me enough time to metabolize it and sleep normally.

Dr Hook and any member of the medical show.

“Arch isn’t a difficult distro! All you need to do is run pacman -Syu now and then! Even my grandma could handle it!”

(Which is true until something goes wrong and now you’re way more on the hook to un-fuck the system than just about anything that could ever go wrong on a Debian or Fedora based distro)

But it can be “software I forgot I installed and consumes resources despite me not really using it”

I don’t want president Gavin Newsom either, but I don’t see how anyone could possibly think “A reality TV businessman billionaire who’s BLUE on the TV charts is what this country needs right now”

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sudo pacman -Syu

[No patch notes were read, zero idea what that update will do]

If the only race track you consider is “personal desktop computer usage” then sure.

Finance, there’s a whole lot of arcane statistics underlying risk management.

Tech, the bleeding edge of computer science is really just applied math.

Synology, with QNAP as a close #2. There are other decent options, but they aren’t quite as polished so they may require more “actual computer knowledge” to troubleshoot from time to time.

I don’t think this is a rating, but a diagram showing how tall the socks of the users of each distro are

I used windows XP today because the phase noise analyzer at work runs on it.

We’re not allowed to connect it to the network, though.

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The plot is an inverse of population density: rural areas have more exposure to cows, cities do not.

I mean…

[Gestures broadly at the state of the world]

People see headlines and the comment section of the social media platform where that headline was posted.