Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

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@herrbischoff I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something about your responses I find really annoying and I suspect you intend them to be annoying. So I am going to take the rare step of blocking you, because you obviously have a totally different way of thinking about this than I do and I will never agree with you and you will never agree with me, and just continuing to annoy each other is pointless and unhelpful.

@herrbischoff Well if that is true then no one should ever wonder why people buy #Apple products rather than using #Linux. Avoiding that open disdain is exactly what they are paying for.
#MacOS

@dm319 I'm aware you can do that in #Ubuntu and that is exactly what I do, but the issue I have with Ubuntu is that when something breaks, too many Ubuntu users and developers still have the old #Linux mindset that anyone who uses Linux should be willing to chase down bugs and use a search engine to find answers to problems. That is just not a mindset you find much in the Apple world. Apple users expect everything to pretty much just work (even if very slowly, as in the case of today's update).

I guess what I am saying is I wish there were at least one #distro that you could put on your grandparents' computer and even if you were not around to maintain it, you could feel pretty confident that it would not give them any problems. I think #LinuxMint aspires to that ideal (but maybe I'm wrong) but as far as I know they don't offer the minimal install option like #Ubuntu does.

(I love how that comment you posted says "Naturally most people who install Ubuntu will not want to do this." Makes me wonder if they know their users as well as they think they do.)

@dm319 I don't mind a few esential programs such as a web browser being included, but #LinuxMint includes an entire suite of software that I would never use and that just occupies space on my drive. What they ought to do is give you the option to pick which pieces of recommended software to install when you are first doing the install of the distro.

It is infuriating that #MacOS security updates are now taking around TWO F***ING HOURS, at least if you still have a system with an Intel CPU. #Apple seems to think that all their users are made of money and can just go out and buy a faster machine whenever they release one, meanwhile they keep breaking features and removing functionality with every new MacOS release.

On the other hand I can do a full #kernel update on a #Linux machine in about 5 minutes or so. Even a complete reinstall of #Ubuntu #Linux from scratch doesn't take more than about half an hour, and that's on old hardware.

My only wish is that there was a Linux #distro that is not loaded down with everything but the kitchen sink (so not #LinuxMint ), but that operates from the assumption that its users are just that - USERS who want to get stuff done with their computers. Not programmers, not puzzle-solvers who like spending hours trying to figure out why something won't work or has stopped working, but just regular computer USERS who have no desire to learn programming or use the command line any more than is absolutely necessary.