How he thinks he can make more billions by forcing yet another subscription model that takes ownership away from individuals.

Instead of ever-bigger screens thanks to flip open folding displays, how about the same size phone that flips open to an easily usable qwerty board?

I wasn’t going to bother responding to this comment because the question is ridiculous. Asking me which distro caused issues is absurd, I don’t file away what I had for lunch a month ago much less what distro caused me grief five years ago. I’ve used Mint, Manjaro, Mandriva, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LTE, Damn Small Linux, Raspbian, CrunchBang, Kali, Puppy, Drauger and probably a half-dozen more I’ve forgotten about. All had pluses and minuses, most got dumped after an update or upgrade caused an incompatibility, or it didn’t work with the hardware I had, that pissed me off when something I spent a great deal of time setting up stopped working or I got that black screen. My most reliable are my Raspbian systems, over 400 days of trouble-free uptime. Why dig up this old thread? Because literally today I had two distros shit the bed. My dual boot quit because I have no idea why, it disappeared from GRUB and won’t boot when added back. I have a strictly linux PC that I use for backing up DVDs and archiving old software among other things, and I hooked up a second older DVD to it and got the image posted after doing and update/upgrade. Manjaro. Another couple hours of troubleshooting and probably a reinstall. Awesome.

Yep, but what we had access to was far, far different than what we see today. I wouldn’t have a problem with basic features like FTP, telnet, newsgroups or whatever, but the content will be limited. Gonna be back to dialup speeds.

I’m not sure compression would solve the issue I mentioned - this would be probably more akin to using Napster to DL a song in 2001 via dialup, or trying to get an image off a newsgroup at best. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be useful, just very limited. Like I said, you’re not getting a full distro this way.

I don’t think you’re going to be downloading a linux distro over this system. It’s probably just going to be text and the most basic data,

I can make pretty basic burritos. Alfredo sauce with pasta. Basic caesar salad. Cookies. Budget chicken noodle soup.

Ask a decent question in a reply without engaging in argumentative fuckery, like appeals to hypocrisy, trying to be right via technicality or specificity, etc.

Add relevant info without the aforementioned arguments.

Add humor - hopefully without derailing the entire discussion like reddit does in a fight for upvotes.

All about ego. He has nothing else except to be the biggest bully he can be.

One of the shittiest humans on the planet is in charge and fucking things up, here’s a completely unlikely event that would fix nothing that could happen.

Just trying to kill the DIY PC market. You will buy the Paystation, Xbox, and Steam machine and like it. No user upgradable hardware. Only upgradable models. All non-console GPUs, CPUs, and DRAM are for AI alone.

I didn’t come here to complain about linux, but the number of distros that give me a black screen after some hardware change or update is more than I can count on two hands. What this post is denying that both userbases have wildly different skill levels because linux generally requires a higher skill level. Windows is over a much more massive userbase that includes people who can’t set the time display on a microwave. And they don’t use linux.

Furthermore, pre-downloading the driver is completely unnecessary as the default windows driver would allow you to continue using the PC and download the correct driver after installation. No “series of misfortunes.”

The only thing reading something like this does for me is paint the linux community as completely inept and dishonest.

I swapped GPU in windows by downloading the new driver, shut down the pc, swap cards, boot pc that then loads a default windows driver, install the new driver I downloaded, done. If it asks for a reboot, that takes another 20 seconds.

Done.