And furthermore - the companies in question are true megacorps, ie evey bit of additional power/money they get (and for the matter of this pov: you give them) goes to absolutely the shorties practices and abuses ever.

It’s a moral thing - I protect my data for the same reason I recycle or consider my (indirect*) carbon footprint.

(*indirect bcs more like which companies or people I support)

With your data you support misinformation, deregulation lobbying, (any) government shitty things, ad culture, anything to protect the stock market as-is or their stock falls, dogshit approach to keeping their respective monology over their market, … and their size and reach allows them to just be bigger than a lot of things like municipalities, even smol countries, the quid-pro-quo aint in the peoples favor.

I simplified example (bcs someone else already made it happen) - imagine, if Google autonomous cars go on sale, suddenly railways projects disappear around you.

It’s rare, it’s bad, but it’s also adequate and it does the job.

People that chose the “red” drive … Once you install Ubuntu a mysterious shaman will once again introduce you to the red and blue choice, … well, I mean, not exactly, it will be just a giant bag of mixed pills drives for different distros and the ominous warning be like “you only really need to take one, but there is no actual limit”.

Im not using Fedora (nor Debian or Mint), I like my weeds to tumble & my susey to be open.

Also I … wouldn’t ask which distro is easer to install just to switch to that one bcs of that reason. Sounds redundant.

But with Proxmox (a hypervisor) for virtual machines Debian is my go-to (as with most users everywhere) and Im too lazy for templates so I install a few Debians from scratch now and then - and it takes like no time. So I was wandering if Mint just has less steps or some other friendliness tricks.

I’m not familiar with Mint and I only installed Fedora twice/on two baremetal PCs … but how much easier can you go compared to Debian?
Is it like a cleaner UI or more preinstalled essentials?

It takes too long to listen to Lemmy users tell you why not to.

I’ve seen (walked by) less pleasant cubicles.

OP wasn’t yet born in the late second millennium, they didn’t suffer through monthly reinstalls.

/j!!

But yes, for home users NT Windows came with XP.

Charting is ops passion!!

Yes, this is my experience also, it was stable and only a few (at the time) legacy bs didn’t work out of the box.

I liked Vista (I was never a RAM peasant & I liked the glass theme) and hated XP.

I was also always sad how Me was brutally sodomised by shitty third party drivers (who just renamed 98 drives).

I considered W8 and 11 just as mediocre moneygrabs or maybe a marketing stunt.

So eloquently put & efficiently communicated, I only wish I could be that articulated with words.

to shrink reliance on Big Tech

Right there in the title

Well, that’s a challenging Linux install.

It will however run Doom as is.

Do they even process it or is the goal just to have plastic waste but with extra steps?

Oh, they can break it down.

Being notified about Raspberry Pi > raspberry pie > cream pie delivery.

Thx.
Tbh that’s a hard one for me.

Oh, that makes sense.

Also learned that W10 got stuck with classic paint, layers, AI, new UI are for W11 (MS Paint).

Just the classic “AI will take over” meme … is what I was aiming for.
You know, if you build something smarter and better it will take over, that’s the point, otherwise you need chains.