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.

lol

Because no one should do that. It seems super gross (and I’m American)

Decades and decades ago. Not remotely new. Your question was outdated 25 years ago.

The artist Lescop is great. I know some french but not enough to really 100% follow the lyrics

I was kind of kidding, I just think it’s wild that out of all the options, mint is recommended 9/10 times

Pop os is easy and doesn’t look like windows 95

In the US, 411 was the number you dialed for “information” meaning to ask for phone numbers iirc. So it makes sense, you just may not have that context

just looked that # up. Yes, it is. People are very stupid, but in this case it’s more of 1) a case of needing to know. many people do not need to know how to maintain a computer; many don’t even own a desktop these days and other systems do many auto-updates. and 2) again, these bad practices affect other people who do properly update their machine. We don’t live in a vacuum.

firstly, you’re assuming everyone works in an office.

then, that those lessons stick.

then, that malware only affects those who essentially opt into it.

All of these are beyond-stupid assumptions.

PS. not one security training I’ve had did more than just mention in passing updating your device, if even that. Because guess what, IT departments don’t give a choice. They manage that and force-install updates.

Your other weak-ass assumption is that work lessons (if even applied at work) also come home.

Yeah dude, you’re just wrong in your thinking. Top to bottom.

I’m sure 90% people using computers understand the security implications of not updating and not rebooting,

Deranged. 9% is probably higher than reality. 0.9% maybe.

Also you’re responding to a comment about widespread collective damage as though only a few individuals would be hurt.

I’m so lost. For kids learning to code, I think this image actually might help them understand

Is this funny, or is it a useful illustration?

Unless those are mostly overly complicated, it doesn’t speak to what I’m saying. But I guess it means people like doing their own engineering better than relying on others

I am very aware of the progression. But you’re vastly glossing over how much complexity (and feature set) was added after jQuery. If JavaScript sucks, how would you change it? Shitty browsers implementing it poorly in the past (and safari doing so today) doesn’t make it suck.

JavaScript frameworks actually exist for two reasons, one, vanilla JavaScript lacks ease of use (does not suck and I don’t care who disagrees) and two, people love over engineering the fuck out of technology. See: technology since the iPhone came out. We have advanced systems around the world spinning up processes to make up for the fact that touch screens are hard to type accurately on.

Ah yes, for windows to suck, Linux would have to be invulnerable to any issue

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They cannot be bothered to check spelling. And now someone will get mad at us because we noticed