Hmm ok

Salted Lennox, yumm

I am pretty confused by Musk saying this is an improvement. I have no doubts he might believe the Holocaust “wasn’t that bad” but would he admit that publicly?

I am fine with installing apps I use or want to try. I’m also okay with forgetting them and wasting the space honestly. All of that probably would take me ten years of “bloat” to match windows out of the box so yeah that’s not bloat, that’s just making software decisions. This post is really criticizing people for installing software? Wtf

They also stay pretty current with the kernel and many other packages. Their new DE is hopefully going to be good. They are trying to make a better gnomish experience. We’ll see.

That’s interesting. I have run Pop_OS! since around 2021 and I’ve had very few issues.

It’s basically a rolling release so that’s false

Ah very clear now

Pop_OS really gets less love than it deserves. imo it should replace Mint as the standard go-to recc.

What?

I wish PlexAmp did this so I could recommend it

I have a dream of living somewhere that at most requires me to bike 20 minutes while rarely/never driving. But I also want a place that isn’t super crowded and I can have a garden. Tall order, I know.

Yeah, I hate driving. I wish that in my (very walkable) city, I didn’t have to, but I do sometimes. Today was a rough start due to having to drive around town.

I think people often get exhausted with cities at a certain age. I’m starting to want to sacrifice all that I like about the city over the crowdedness and general rudeness you observe while adjacent to so many people.

Yeah, eventually I’ll move out of the city too, but overall as you said the trend is more people moving to cities

The stupid Google icons are bad but no I don’t agree otherwise

People are not leaving cities

You one to

What. The. Fuck.

Probably because they’ve been building their own DE (which will replace their GNOME fork) for a while now. It’s in alpha and hopefully will roll out in the next few months. Having said that, I don’t have issues doing the things I want to do. I think it’s fine for now because 22.04 is LTS, so most app makers support it.

Yeah, I get your reasoning – but there are other distros that match all of that as well. PopOS and ElementaryOS are two that I have personal experience with. Elementary had a rocky upgrade once so I tried PopOS and haven’t looked back. It’s great. Ubuntu minus the crap. The average user (getting recommended mint) probably wouldn’t care about being on the latest release and would likely not even run updates all that often, so even Elementary would’ve been a good choice for them. I have since installed it on my girlfriend’s slow/old laptop and it works very smoothly there compared with windows.