Grandma uses Signal, it looks like a normal texting app, nothing special

Having to go through 5+ pages deep to just request the PDF copy of a bill, sometimes requiring multiple logins of different versions of the same site because they haven’t migrated everything under one login

The companies who are training AI… On Linux servers?

Wait no, obviously smaller actors you’re referring to with your mysterious comment.

Or maybe all the follow on tech companies that are the largest customers using AI aaand who also mostly use Linux

No no I’ve got it wrong, US government entities want a backdoor so restrict AI releasing, then during that window exploit non-US companies using Linux

Would be nice to realign September, October, November, and December as the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months respectively

Desktop Environment, the software that controls the windows, icons, and menu.

Their comment is basically saying the experience of two distros using the same DE will be closer than the same distro using different DEs

If you are recommending a first time Linux user a distro, the goal isn’t to find the perfect one tailored for them, the goal is to get them to use Linux and not have a bad experience, putting a bunch of upfront conditions on choice is overloading

Distro hoping can happen later

I think the obsession part you are referring to isn’t their love for Mint or them regarding it as the best distro. It’s like someone asking which direction they should take to drive somewhere, there’s a sea of people responding with different routes with tiny differences and the Linux Mint response would be “Whatever the GPS decided”

You might enjoy sqlc

Its like a reverse ORM

SQL -> Go

There’s at least a small part of it related to the name ‘Fedora’