Not sure why you specify binary-based OS’s. Following Gentoo’s upgrade guide also gets you potentially whatever they want on your systemp

Yes! In fact, Chromium was originally a fork of WebKit, as WebKit was a fork of KHTML. In both cases the codebases have diverged quite significantly though.

The core of Safari (WebKit) is open source. If it weren’t they’d be violating the GPL license of KHTML.

Kubuntu, because it’s the most solid distro I’ve used that meets my needs.

They don’t really compete. Dark table does image processing, whereas Digikam’s major strength is its library organization.

In Python it’s really hard!

def __eq__(self, other):
    ...

How do you even write those subscripted hyphens???

Containers are great, but I find Docker’s way of making container images to be pretty bad, personally. Fortunately you can use other tools to create OCI images and then copy them into Docker, as the runtime is pretty nice for dev machines.

And in a mirror universe where that decision got made someone’s arguing “maybe we shouldn’t have cut funding to Israel if it meant allowing the genocide in Ukraine.”

A few off the top of my head:

• Every time I try it I have installation issues, across a wide variety of hardware. (Newbies have also reported to me that “Linux can’t even install” after trying Mint - when I sit them down with a Kubuntu install on the same machine it tends to go flawlessly)
• Cinnamon seems to have stability issues (this is one of the more common things I’ve had now ie friends complain about and ask for help with)
• the blocking of snapd in the repos and the way it’s done can be pretty confusing to newbies when they click a “get it on the snap store” button and things just fall apart. (I also think their blocking of snapd itself is fairly user hostile, but the fact that the UX around it is so bad is also a problem)
• On the subject of blocking packages in the repos - their own packages seem to have file conflicts with the Ubuntu repos they use but don’t put the relevant “Conflicts” lines in their deb metadata, which I’ve seen cause conflicts for newbies that break apt. (KDE Neon does a much better job of taking care of this IMO, but I certainly don’t view it as a beginner friendly distro either)
• The lack of a Plasma version is a major downside to me. (Random aside: I once had a newbie ask me how she could get the pretty version of Linux I had because hers was so ugly - she was running stock Mint and I was on Fedora’s KDE spin)

Yeah, I really don’t get why so many people call Mint good for beginners. There are so many reasons it’s not, yet it has this incredibly vocal crowd who insist it’s so fantastic.

Cars. They ruin cities.

I’m not here to change your mind, but man… Mint and Manjaro are not great introductions to Linux IMO.

Use Activity Aware Firefox and set it as your default browser.

I learned lolcode in college because we had to write a sorting algorithm in assembly and “any other programming language.”

Gretchen Whitmer.

Garlin Gilchrist is way more pro transit and would be great for Michigan.

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It is theoretically automatable, but on bare metal it requires having hardware that’s not normally just sitting in every data centre, so it would still require someone to go and plug something into each machine.

On VMs it’s more feasible, but on those VMs most people are probably just mounting the disk images and deleting the bad file to begin with.

I know at least of Freexian. But also, Ubuntu tends to cover the “Like Debian, but with enterprise support” niche.

What about ed?

They don’t call it a viitor or an emacsitor. It’s an EDitor!