I didn’t know this, but Oracle is shity in so many ways.

Resistent to rust.

Debian is fine distro and many people rely on it as strong foundation including the people that build ubuntu and mint. Maybe Debian is the hidden champion.

When Ubuntu became popular, it had some advantages like reliable release cycles, slightly newer packages, better integration of proprietary drivers. Stuff that was not wanted in Debian stable main at the time.

Other non-debian-based distros also brought some advantages.

Personally, I’d love to see Debian as the base distro with Mint, Ubuntu and others building ontop of it. I like my apt update. I just won’t send novices straight to Debian when the derivates have more desktop users.

Reboot?

How to install Linux software using GUI?

On your GUI Desktop Environment, you use your GUI Application Launcher to start the GUI Terminal emulator. Then you simply type “apt install foo”. Easy.

See, the GUI is not harder then the normal way.

Well, if you prentend iterm does not exist, you can probably still use a mac to browse the web.

5 years in the EU

If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine.

Other than avoiding ecosystem fragmentation, I’m not seeing tangible benefits of running the latest android.

You mean Word, Excel, and so on…

Exactly. Some things just work in every civilised country.

Real pros carry a thing to unlock the carts without a coin. A small metal piece on your key chain or wallet dies the trick. We still return the cart every time. This is just common sense.

Seems wild. Are employees not a relevant cost factor?

Fairphone?

Just get a list or phones with replacable batteries. It’s a short list and you sort by price if more than one fits your need.

Bulgaria, Hungary, Kosovo are European contries

Your logic is sound, but Bending Spoon is not know to care about value. If Vimeo owns any infrastructure, they’ll sell at it at ebay.

You don’t have to switch if you like what you found. Some people distro hop, some stay on the same one their whole life.

Too answer your question: Keeping your data is not hard and you should have a backup. Keeping your configuration/customization is a different story; if you don’t like the defaults, the tweaking is practically lost when you swap distros or DEs.

Too address the elefant in the room: Those beginner-friendly distros (e.g. Mint, Ubuntu, …) that you “start with” are actual full-fledged Linux distros under the hood. They usually try to create a UI that’s easier to navigate for someone switching from Windows (rarely from mac) and have a friendly community. They are opionated on some design choices but otherwise 99% identical to the underlying generic purpose distro.

Ubuntu is based on Debian. Mint is based on Ubuntu. Most Everything build for Debian will also work on Ubuntu or Mint. If you like Mint and it works on your hardware, there’s no objective need to switch to Debian (or Arch or Gentoo) ever. People switch as a learning exercise or for bragging rights.

The main purpose of trying different distro is to find your style. Experts could probably configure Debian to look and behave just like Mint, but it’s easier and more consistent if you get it all of the box.

That’s why she brought her baby. No one is going to kidnap someone with a baby. To much hassle.

I follow your logic. The alcohol in rotting fruit is the same substance in our drinks and most likely has the same effect. But, is this a problem that needs research? Who eats their booze?

Habit? Tradition? There are establishments in town that sell beer, wine, whiskey, or cidre. It’s a thing, people do.

Is binging on fruits a thing humans do?

It’s Secret Intervention Group, but close enough.