What about a lightweight variant like Lubuntu or Xubuntu? 4Gb should be usable for a lot of things.

We can’t imagine anything but unfettered capitalism, so onward we go to our own destruction!

But our ignorant misconceptions are ubiquitous so they have become truth!

What problems with AMD Ryzen? I’ve been happy with them, except one that had excessive power drain on suspend.

My guess at the stance is I’d imagine it’s that switching away from snaps is switching away from Ubuntu’s support and security monitoring and updates to some less known/reliable/diligent third party?

Popey (Alan Pope) used to work for Canonical / Ubuntu, so he’s presumably not inclined to jump on the bandwagon of Canonical/Ubuntu/snap hate since he knows a lot of Canonical and Ubuntu people and their motivations and work. Not that there aren’t good reasons to criticize snap or other Canonical decisions, but it’s also plain that a lot of people just join a hate bandwagon and don’t even know what about it they object to. There is masses of wrong-headed criticism of Canonical out there e.g. I’ve frequently seen people criticize creating Upstart, saying Canonical should have used systemd, or bzr vs git! Presumably these people were annoyed at Canonical for not inventing a time machine.

Black/white as bad/good is a clear case where there is a clear logical reason to change IMO. That perpetuates unconscious bias.

And yet there’s a big push to rename git “master” branches, which have no slave connotations and are more analogous to master recordings.

Its not like I’ll fight it, but it’s stupid.

You do? Because I don’t. There is nothing racist about the concept of master. Is a masterpiece racist? Are master tapes, Are post-graduate degrees racist? We may as well declare “work” insensitive because slaves had to work.

Don’t get me wrong, there are many terms we should adjust. I just can’t see how “master” is one of them.

1g prerolls are actually the only round-number metric sale I see.

Shush! Lennart might hear you!

Well lvm makes a shit filesystem and btrfs is useless at volume management.

That was the point they were making. GitHub is to git as the snap store is to snap, albeit there are existing alternatives to GitHub.

I just retried an earlier failure. When I search for the address with “avenue” it works but with “ave” it goes “I have no idea what you could possibly mean”

Conversely I’d find taking my hands from the keyboard to change workspaces for instance to be clunky and awkward. That’s why I use keyboard first, TrackPoint second, trackpad or mouse distant third.

None I’ve ever used have been. I have a card I dropped in working right now on a 2 yr old Thinkpad.

Just throw in a $20 Intel Wi-Fi card if necessary, and don’t buy the first models of the latest CPU, as with any manufacturer, and Thinkpads are some of the another for Linux.

…I was almost tempted to answer it literally (geographically)

the documentation is very inconsistent and usually poor.

So many excellent projects are crippled by having little but reference docs and scant, over abstracted descriptions.

VS Code(ium) doesn’t work for you instead?

Really? I disliked Perl for 3 decades on unix and Linux and I’ve never felt like I have been held back by not knowing or using it. I don’t remember the last time I saw a Perl script, let alone needed to understand one.