I think it’s even simpler than that: they want a share of Google’s data, and more control about what ads they can show to their customers constantly. Their hardware platforms are okayish and sold for a quite low price, but they monetize it on ads.
Your explanation is interesting (and I learned a thing or two), but it fails to explain how such a term as Taco Tuesday could be considered a trademark in locations where the owner of the trademark is implanted.
Might be enough for touch-based interfaces though, or fingers don’t have a 4K resolution either.
There are simpler and better solutions than Sublime for that use case, IMO.
Both are text editors, but VSCode’s plugin system and various config options can turn it a fully fledged IDE for the languages of your choice.
Besides, Sublime is exactly that: good, old.
You’re comparing compiled executables to scripts, it’s apples and oranges.
Isn’t the Pi 3B still available for that kind of job?
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I checked on my machine, and out of all the packages I had on snap, only Inkscape, VLC and Slack were also available on apt. Spotify, Whatsdesk (a WhatsApp client) and Signal were among the most commonly used missing.