Have no idea, but we’re probably talking 10+ years ago, probably on Reddit when people kindly corrected people’s writing mistakes 😂

Totally off topic, and not trying to be a dick, but this helped me remember a lot vs alot

I would say it’s okay with more than yes/no. You could say yes, but only if code review by human. The difference is that if you can only say yes or no, you would have to say yes, but then don’t know if the details of the final rules of AI in the project would actually be a dealbreaker for you. However, these options are a little too much.

It’s been a while since I ran out of battery, so that probably makes it more relaxing for me. Also, I like that the screen is as simple as possible.

I make sure my phone has enough charge for whatever I’m doing or on rare/special occasions have a power bank with me.

I have out of because I don’t need to know exactly what my battery is on. I’m good with the graphics and if the indicator is amber or red, I really need to think about charging soon.

So, you’re number off

You mean that OS X lost a lot of users to… macOS.

Ecosia and Qwant is where it’s at - they are creating an independent search index to be able to ditch Bing and Google. And Ecosia is trying to save the planet and have so far planted more than 250 million trees - just an added benefit.

But the backup software verified the backup!

I think it’s “Safe” as in “No one was ever fired for choosing IBM” or more on the nose: If you choose to install Linux on all company computers and the CFO gets mad when Excel doesn’t work, why aren’t we just using windows??!?!? Then it’s your ass on the line. You will have a million enterprise software vendors that supports Windows, fewer that supports Linux.

It’s no longer the safe bet for a lot of companies/countries because of how USA is being run at the moment, but that’s s whole other reason.

Starting from version 12 or 13 (don’t remember exactly) proprietary drivers have been included in the installation images, which removed the biggest pain point (IMO) for novice users.

Yes, from version 12. I have some kind of relationship with Debian (I like the philosophy behind it) so I have always wanted to use that when I was going to switch to Linux. Version 12 was what did it for me - removed the installation pain points, as you said. I would use it on any set-and-forget computers (like parents mail-and-web computer) if I get the chance.

It comes with that magical “free software only” mentality

Less free than it used to be. Now you get closed source firmware by default, making the initial setup much better than it used to be.

Sometimes the pain is worth the gain :D Just not so many free afternoons for me in the next while, otherwise I would be trying Arch … but for now I will be using set it and forget it Debian.

I think sometimes there are hits and misses when installing a distro. Could not get Mint to boot after installing it so I ended up installing Debian - where Mint should be easier to get going, Debian installed perfectly fine for me.

To be fair, the UI Control Panel of Windows has become more and more fragmented. Windows 11 is slowly transitioning different settings into the Settings App. It’s going slow and I have no idea if Microsoft will ever finish the job. When Windows 11 was first released, Settings had so many shortcuts to Control Panel elements that it was totally useless. My thoughts (hope) are that Windows 11 is what Windows Vista was - a transition that would be a bloody mess - and at some point Windows 12 will come and people will like it because they reintroduce elements that people miss and fix some of these inconsistencies.

But how things are run, it will probably be filled with even more reasons to ditch Windows.

You would in fact be severely limited if you only used products made entirely by people who are ‘perfect’ in every way.

Who is talking about people that are perfect in every way? Do you think that people believe that Linus Torvalds is perfect? He is not. We don’t need people to be ‘perfect’, but not being part of a child molesting ring is good start.

Yep, the worst documents are yet to come.

Thank you for the explanation. Makes sense to use the codenames.

Every time I want to contribute to Debian documentation, translation or the like, it feels like the tools and/or bureaucratic process is super heavy and then I just don’t have time for that. It might just be me or that I haven’t found “the way” but other things I can do much easier. Haven’t tried to contributed to Debian Wiki, so that might be easier.

I’m still noob when it comes to running Linux. Debian has always been my favourite - just the philosophy behind it, but also the stability and broad usage. First OS book I read fully was on Debian. Then coming to try using Debian, it failed me (some things didn’t work and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it) multiple times. However, Debian 12 was the turning point and Debian 13 seems to work at least as good.