Finally, some sense.

Excellent OS choice - great for noobs and veterans alike.

If you’re running Virtualbox on Arch you deserve everything you get.

Artix is great if you don’t mind Arch. Devuan is great if you like lightweight Debian (server install). MXLinux is nice if you want Debian with a usability/UI focus. As for security focused, I don’t know what that means. A machine is either secure or it’s not. Chuck SELinux on there if it helps you sleep at night.

They say it like it’s a good thing.

Not at work. Certainly not.

No it’s not. It’s very relevant - it’s the reason I’ve never recommended the software to anyone outside of close friends.

outside US and UK (and few others)

If we’re considering just the US, Canada, UK, NZ and Australia, that’s at least 470 million people for whom the name is problematic. As an enthusiastic Australian user, there’s no way I would recommend a program called GIMP to my higher-ups.

Unlike the towns of Bra or Fuck in Austria, the acronym GIMP was chosen specifically because of its edgy double meaning.

It’s not just awkward for Americans, but for the entire English speaking world - at least 470 million people. How can anyone seriously recommend a business use a program called GIMP? It is a massive hurdle to adoption in the corporate world. They should change the name, or at least create a business-oriented alias.

Agreed. XML has been dead for at least 10 years. Still, at least it’s not YAML.

Lidar. China uses this to track aerosol and carbon dioxide distribution in the atmosphere. Likely some similar US-based scientific monitoring. Almost certainly not Elon - he hasn’t tweeted about it and there’s no X branding.

Linux user for 25+ years here. I’ve tried 'em all. These days I just use Mint.

Hey, I have that combination on my luggage!

Don’t get comfy, I used to be fedora, then debian, then arch. Mint + Cinnamon is my final resting place.

Dust off your VPNs folks, you can still browse old.reddit from a Hong Kong endpoint.

(I probably shouldn’t have mentioned this)

Yes, because the one thing we really need is more heat on earth.

The number of times that signing an online petition has prevented the plans of an evil corporation is exactly zero.

Ah, at last someone properly qualified to talk on the matter. So nice to see another graduate from the Kerbal Space Program.

This already exists as ‘Mixture Of Experts’ (MOE) models. It’s how Deepseek is able to remain competitive with a fraction of the budget.

I don’t want SystemD.