I’ve been using Linux between 2018-2020 and on and off between 2020-2023 and regained daily status on November last year. It’s been great, but some things like lacking a proper office replacement (Only Office (FOSS), FreeOffice (Free as in beer), and WPS Office (Free as in beer) are all getting closer) are a bit limiting. Some stuff like lacking VRR and HDR were annoying (getting fixed now) and gaming has been improving. Game compatibility sometimes is a bit of a sore spot, but it’s been getting ever easier and honestly, haven’t had issues with NVIDIA drivers under wayland

Fedora isn’t all that easy for a complete noob to install NVIDIA proprietary drivers

Uranium is not that rare. Doesn’t Canada have quite a bit of it? Portugal used to mine it too, as well as several countries in Africa

They still haven’t an arm64 version :( such a build was apparently considered but ultimately not made

An open source architecture that implements a reduced instruction Set, in order to simplify design and cut costs. Still in its infancy

Hanna Montana Linux, just for giggles

How recent is your computer? Debian based distros, due to their focus on stability tend to have quite old packages, namely kernels

Manjaro has had a few flaky things happen with their organisation, so I wouldn’t trust them, Endeavour OS is apparently a decent alternative to them.

OpenSuse is apparently pretty good, am yet to move to Linux for gaming (will next month when I build myself a new machine lol, might go with fedora, which is what I use on my laptop)

It’s about once a semester (the updates) and I’ve only personally seen one, but it was fairly painless. Regarding your other questions, no idea

Something with KDE would be ideal for you. I personally use fedora, as it has a very modern yet fairly stable software cycle with one major release every semester

But you did have sex with me

I think the FOSS drivers support it? https://mesamatrix.net/ Seems to say that it’s supported, ut I’m not sure

Immich. Just found out about it, still gotta try, but looks good, an app that allows you to configure a Google Photos like app locally hosted, with automatic phone backups

Fedora. Because it’s the best supported distro on Apple hardware :P (running asahi here)

1945 is a really weird data point, because yk, WW2 was still going on, so at least for Americans, most of them were probably employed by the state or by the various enterprises that produced the weapons needed for the war effort

That kinda sounds like the exact same argument for the west to ally with dictatorships in the name of not allowing communism to spread

Hopefully some of the money saved from paying Microsoft will be put in the hands of Libreoffice and Linux devs

Without time zones it would be worse. Every little town would have their own time, calculated from their position

I mean, most revolutions end up pretty badly, maybe we just got lucky

Fun fact, I’m actually in one of the few countries they thought of couping, that they didn’t. Portugal in 1974 had a military staged coup against the dictatorship that ruled back then. It looked a lot like we were going to turn red, and Kissinger even said “let them be, it’ll remind Europe why communism doesn’t work”. Long story short, after a few nationalisations, an attempted coup by radical left, and some general weirdness, we managed to get ourselves a mostly working republic that still lasts to this day