Hm, okay. I think I understand where @elucubra is coming from now. Thanks for this.

As an RPi 5 owner, I too am interested in this USB-C tomfoolery.

The founder’s shady history with OpenFeint, their entire privacy policy and shit like this, take your pick. Wikipedia also has an entire section dedicated to Discord’s controversies. No matter how you look at it, Discord has a great many shortcomings.

There’s another possibility: they didn’t stay home, but there’s just more of the other guys.

An astute observation for a dumbass.

Is the statement that the dog is chicken?

reeSilva is correct, but for the sake of everyone’s sanity: AVOID LINKEDIN AT ALL COSTS. That’s where all the self-important and out of touch people hang out and they’re the absolute worst.

lol, that is so unnecessary.

Hm, didn’t know about that. By the way, what is the word that is showing up as removed?

What’s wrong with Newpipe?

Exactly. There’s no moral dillema here. I’m keeping the switch in the “left” position and welding it in place, just in case.

And mine. And probably everyone else’s since the only banking app I can find on F-Droid is something called Varengold.

“It has a gradient so you know it’s AI.” <- Uh, what does this mean?

Check out mister Mainstream over here. The rest of us snooty OS connoisseurs use Collapse OS.

I would say it depends on the user. Some might feel more at home with KDE, because the layout is similar to Windows. Some might be coming from macOS, so they would be more at home with Pantheon. Some might choose GNOME, because…

Anyway, the answer is none of the above, it’s terminal only. Get good or get out. Using graphics is for quitters.

Switched around the time Windows 7 was out. The reason is Windows Update. It took FOREVER to do its thing. And it was janky as all hell. I distinctly remember clicking on the “check for updates” more than once, because it didn’t find any updates the first time dor whatevee reason. Anyway, I had one update breakage too many and I snapped. Had Linux as my main OS since then and a few years later it became my only OS.

Basically, I wanted an OS that stayed out of my face and Windows wasn’t it.

To my fellow Linux users: it’s okay to use a GUI. Really.

As a contrbuting member of Society of Linux Users on Terminals I am aghast, AGHAST at the very proposition of using *shudder* graphics on your Linux system. I mean, the very idea! If you can’t browse the web in console mode, then why even bother using Linux? GUIs are for quitters.

I don’t know, we’ll just have to see. But personally, I am not a fan of tying so many functionalities to systemd.

I’m not sure which distro would work with your laptop. I would suggest experimenting with live USB images. Maybe using something like Ventoy which enables you to try out multiple live images from one USB stick. But as far as applications go:

• GIMP is native to Linux and should work fine. You might also want to give Krita and Inkscape a whirl. Also, massive props for ditching Adobe. I hate that company as much as it hates their customers.
• Blender works on linux.
• So does Davinci. Allegedly. Haven’t used it, but their website says Linux support is available.
• I don’t code so, um, no idea. Sorry. Hopefully someone else will weigh in.
• Good news, Linux has working file explorers!
• No ads, at least for the most part. Ubuntu had Amazon’s search integrated into their search bar a while back, which caused quite a kerfuffle. Later, they added a toggle to turn this off, but this was years ago. Might want to check just in case.