Nearly all of my friends make less than $5k per month, and all of them have SSDs as the boot drive in their computer.

On Debian Testing or Unstable you don’t have to worry about that as much. Right now, I have rustc 1.80.1 from the Testing repo, just one version behind.

I have most certainly had OS installs (from every vendor) that worked flawlessly for a while. Why are you pretending as if those don’t exist?

Where is the mail server getting incoming mail from?

It would be cool to pay a monthly subscription, that’s then distributed among the software I use or have installed. That could be integrated into a package manager even. I don’t know if any Linux distro does something like it.

I’ve been thinking the same thing lately. It would be cool if at least there were some sort of metadata maintainers could include on packages saying, “if you want to donate money, upstream accepts donations at this link: <…>”. Then I (or someone else) could put together a tool that helps you track what upstream projects you’re donating to.

I understand that isn’t nearly as easy as just a subscription though. The issue I see with that is legal - you’d need a legal entity specifically for accepting payments and disbursing each upstream project’s share, plus all the accounting and such that goes along with it. I don’t see why it couldn’t be shared across multiple distributions though. Upstream packages could create an account with the funding service, then distro maintainers could include some sort of Funding-Service-ID: gnu/coreutils metadata and a way to upload a list of Funding-Service-IDs to the funding service’s servers.

I think that would be doable, but it would require buy-in from distributions, upstream maintainers, and someone who could operate such an organization. Not to mention users.

Which came later, Windows XP, ME, or Vista? Sure, you probably have that memorized, but if you didn’t it wouldn’t be immediately obvious. That’s just a problem with using codenames instead of numbers, nothing to do with unserious names. At least Debian releases have reasonable version numbers alongside the codenames, unlike some other operating systems!

I work for a major network infrastructure company. We can choose from Windows, macOS, or Ubuntu for work laptops. I chose macOS, but I’m probably going to switch to Ubuntu with my next laptop refresh since a lot of our internal tooling works better on Linux.

You aren’t stuck to Fedora with Asahi, I’m running Debian on my M1 Pro MBP

It’s technically possible to install the KDE 6 packages from experimental onto bookworm, but it is far from ready and will probably (eventually) break your system.

Debian 12 “bookworm” will never get KDE 6. KDE 6 will be first added in Debian 13 “trixie”.