People aren’t as opposed to paying as the loud people on the internet would suggest. Particularly if it is the best software around, hence why Photoshop, AutoDesk, etc have such a stranglehold. Even more so if you’re marketing to a business. Is a company really going to use a vibe coded app, or pay their engineer to spend time decompiling and reverse engineering your app while production grinds to a halt, and THEN somehow maintain vibe code, or are they just going to pay for the thing that works and that they can use right now? Similarly, game piracy has never been easier, but Steam makes money hand over fist. Many piracy sites I’ve seen refuse to crack indie games.

I’m not telling you what to do with your life though, it’s a gamble to be sure.

Fedora on the same tier as Manjaro (and below Ubuntu) is probably the most offensive ranking I’ve seen. Even if this is solely referring to complexity.

No shit

Which is a decent idea tbh…

But!..did they open source the shirt designs?

I tried to check if this was true, but some guy was all like “sir, you’re not supposed to be back here” and “please step away from the cash register” 🙄

Ohhhh

This isn’t entirely wrong, but sometimes you should just do the thing you want to do in the first place. For example, MOST distros are “new user friendly” these days. Mint is cool, but you don’t need to go to Mint first if you want to use, say, CachyOS. Rolling distros I’ve found to be actually EASIER to deal with. Literally just update regularly and you’re good. Don’t have to reinstall for an upgrade, or have outdated software with bugs that were patched 2 years ago. Obviously yeah, there are distro where you have to do or customize everything like Arch, Gentoo, or LFS, but most people don’t ever want to build up to that in the first place. If it has the featured you want, just try it. Nix is maybe one of the exceptions, but at the same time it’s so different so you’re not going to get a ton of transferrable skills from an easier distro anyway.

For real, OP must have been rich. I ran Windows 7 on 1 GB well enough. It got slow eventually but I used it until 2016.

Jesse…what the fuck are you talking about?

There is nothing preventing you from running local apps on a phone, including local Ai or CAD, it’s just not necessarily practical or cost efficient to do so, nor is the software there the same way as say AutoCAD.

Nice try with the ad hominem attack, but I use my phone for a lot of different local apps, including gaming, photo editing, office suite, local music that I have purchased and collect instead of streaming primarily. Android even supports desktop mode so the workflow is very similar, and a phone is a good solution if you can afford but one device. I still have a desktop, but hating on phones for being cloud hosted makes no sense… because they’re not.

You may personally dislike app stores, and I don’t really disagree, but it is completely irrelevant to the discussion.

You ARE wrong, not because the population at large does or does not use a lot of web hosted apps. That’s irrelevant. Obviously, the internet is popular for a reason, and you are not inherently superior because you run more local apps then the ever-elusive “them”.

You are wrong because phones are fundamentally not cloud based. They are not thin clients, they do not remote in to a virtual desktop on someone else’s computer to do every task. Phone OSs run on bare metal. End of story.

You could say “electron/web apps sucks” or “we need to use more than 5 centralized websites that are all owned by billionaires and sell your data” and everyone here will agree with you. There is no need to make up problems that don’t exist just you you can say “you thought THAT was bad?”

For real, I have little to no patience with the myriad of Windows bitching posts these days. I’d say “skill issue”, but Linux is easier to set up and maintain than Windows. The only work I’ve had to put in was when I decide to fuck with perfectly functional defaults just because I can.

And how is that any different than a desktop tower?

A phone is not “the cloud”

Oh well

It was funny the first 5000 times I saw someone do it, but now it feels like I’m on a 5th date with someone who is still going on a monologue about epicly owning their bitch ex.

Bunified Ixtensible OEM-firmware interfaSe

it’s really quite simple. The B is silent because it is French.

Yup

If you do end jup switching, KDE is generally the way to go, though GNOME is usually good about depending in implementation by the distro, but Garuda is rolling so you should be good there. Some Window Managers support all Wayland features as well.