The most reasonable choice now may not be the same forever. The optional indentifying fields themselves may have not have changed on Linux over the years but external changes in soceity has prompted this conversation.

With nefarious “child safety” laws popping up the introduction of an optional age field is tone-deaf and suspect. There are other objections to SystemD but this personally pushed me over the edge to finally try out another Linux distro (from Mint).

Personally I’d have little interest in Linux if not for it’s free software license.

Would Linux’s license not count as about Linux? I don’t know if this is the case here but there’s a lot of companies that sell hardware running Linux and refuse to follow the license, e.g. by providing source code.

Hurd rescently became an option with Gentoo Linux (experimentally). Debian offers it too.

GNU stands for “GNU’s not Unix”, which itself means ‘GNU’s not Unix not Unix’. If two nots logically undo each other then you might say GNU is Unix but in programming you would likly apply one assignment at a time: expressed as GNU = ! Unix = Unix or simply GNU’s not Unix.

Google Pain Services*

A middle finger to those you’re jailbreaking from.

Maybe others really believe it’s not “nothing” 😒

If votes determine if a post is constructive, and bots are the majority… 😬

Poisoning the well.

Companies make money using open source code and ignore the licenses which compel them to release their source code (due to ignorance, laziness or selfish gains). While AI generated code cannot be copyrighted then you cannot apply copyleft licenses to that code. Telling human-authored code from AI slop may be difficult or impossible - that could make it more difficult to enforce copyleft compliance in a lawsuit.

Do not accept the premise of assholes.

(3rd option: don’t accept the premise)

Perhaps we could update our software licenses to include “no implied babysitting”.

Not quite miss, but my fingers still type for the wrong programs in the start menu: task manager, notepad, etc.

Are they lying about secure boot being a reason or can I go back to thinking SB is part of Microsoft’s EEE attack on software freedom?

for the average joe using the terminal is too hard

The average Joe can certainly find it difficult to justify spending the time learning the terminal… but actually learning how to use the terminal is easy (and I’m tired of everyone pretending it’s not). If we tech literate people can put aside our low expectations then maybe we’ll find it’s easier to teach that expected.

Then we can consider something like downloading apps by visiting websites (perhaps after dodging malware links from adverts in modern search engines) a solved problem: don’t do that.

This is something which ought to be taught in school as part of using a computer but users being tech literate probably goes against tech corporates that have their claws in education.

Maybe modern search engines are part of the problem here. A local computer geek can probably offer better advice (better “tech tips” if you will).

Mint is the most similar environment for Windows to more easily transfer over and get used to?

Mint kernel version appears rather old - does it support the latest AMD GPUs out of the box?

Pretending to be the average Joe to see what issues may occur certainly has it’s place - before an expert informs them of what they ought to do. That’s not to say people creating software cannot do better to appeal to the average user’s needs but it’s falls on experts to teach them to do tech right.

The zed-industries Github repository lists Zed licenses as AGPL, Apache and GPLv3.

The AGPL refers to the GNU Affero General Public license, which does not limit others from competing. Unless you mean the fact that forks must share source code when accessed over a network?