In addition to what’s already been said, Canonical have a history of starting grandiose projects and then abandoning them a few years later. See Mir, Unity, and Ubuntu Touch for examples.
Alpine Linux is often recommended in similar circumstances. I’ve never tried it so can’t say how it is. Of course you could use Debian with a light WM.
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
The first distro I tried was Red Hat 5 back in the late 1990s but I never got a GUI working so I guess the first one I used properly would have been Mandrake iirc. These days it’s Tumbleweed.
The same risks apply to any software proprietary or open source which is why Microsoft have the following in their licence agreement:
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY.The software is licensed “as-is.” You bear the risk of using it. Microsoft gives no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this agreement cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, Microsoft excludes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. FOR AUSTRALIA ONLY: You have statutory guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law and nothing in these terms is intended to affect those rights.
LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES. You can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to U.S. $5.00. You can’t recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.
Knowing that and knowing that themes can have code is two different things though. I wasn’t particularly surprised as I thought (maybe wrongly) that global themes just installed all the other bits which would require code.
I’m not a tech person, so I used to use Linux Mint. LM is a simple and easy distro with relatively minor issues for the average user. Additionally, their main forum was active and quite supportive of noobs/non-techies. However, I have switched over to KDE Neon and not found similar support yet. Is their a site that is active...
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The gang’s all here. (lemmy.world)
A heavily pregnant Willow on the day she moved in (lemmy.ml)
She had her kittens a couple of days later
Ubuntu Snap Hate
I’ve gathered that a lot of people in the nix space seem to dislike snaps but otherwise like Flatpaks, what seems to be the difference here?...
Percy shortly after he moved in (lemmy.ml)
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/16 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
How do you say SUSE? (m.youtube.com)
I always thought those whoe said susa instead of soos are wrong....
KDE Gear 24.02.2 (kde.org)
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2024/14 & 15 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
The US Army is pushing adoption of Agile (2024) (www.army.mil)
Longtime Debian user, looking to branch out.
I use Debian flavors for my daily drivers. I have no complaints, no real desire to switch it up on that front....
Explicit sync (zamundaaa.github.io)
Fedora proposal to change default desktop to KDE (fedoraproject.org)
Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y' (learnbyexample.github.io)
Did you know that Vim has an Easy mode? It’s the hardest mode for those already familiar with Vim 🙃
openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March (news.opensuse.org)
Dynamic wallpaper changer lost
Hey guys,...
Your first distribution
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
User Beware: The Fine Line Between Content And Code | Hackaday (hackaday.com)
What is an active KDE support forum that is supportive of noobs?
I’m not a tech person, so I used to use Linux Mint. LM is a simple and easy distro with relatively minor issues for the average user. Additionally, their main forum was active and quite supportive of noobs/non-techies. However, I have switched over to KDE Neon and not found similar support yet. Is their a site that is active...
A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click (www.mikrobitti.fi)
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