Really? There aren’t updates with new features that you look forward to? Ever?

Garuda. It’s an Arch derivative that creates a snapshot of your system every time you update. That way, if the update breaks something, you can just roll your system back to the last working snapshot.

A surgeon can have a little fun as a treat.

I read a biography of Stallman several years ago. The whole free software movement was an attempt to preserve the early hacker culture where everybody freely swapped code. So, Stallman didn’t really “invent” FOSS; he just codified that early hacker ethos.

What was minix then? A non FOSS version?

It wasn’t FOSS, but then neither was Linux originally.

GNOME + Debian

Into the trash it goes.

Doing things the hard way doesn’t make you smarter.

Yeah, same, but I always set my editor to insert spaces instead when I hit Tab, so that the spacing won’t be different in other environments.

Some people think it’s dehumanizing. As an adjective, it’s more acceptable (“There is a female nurse”); it sounds a bit off-putting as a noun (“The nurse is a female”). There are some people who don’t like to use it at all, and that leads to awkward things like using “woman” as an adjective (“There is a woman nurse”)!

You’re probably okay as long as you stick to using it as an adjective, but you still might offend some people.

Heck even having a specific window manager vs another can seem farfetched.

That’s unfortunate, because people can be turned off by GNOME and decide that “Linux sucks” without being aware that GNOME isn’t Linux, and they can have a different (better) experience using KDE.

but if someone with 20 years of IT experience gets this feed up with it, imagine how your average user would feel.

Do you think “your average user” would run into something like this? How many people are running 4 monitors?