Debian also has the latest security patches

Did you go buster -> bullseye -> bookworm or just straight to bookworm? It sounds like something got screwed up with the usr merge.

Books will teach the essentials: my core UNIX knowledge comes from an SVR4 book I read in the late 2000s (a decade or more after it was relevant) and it’s still applicable today

Doesn’t AirPrint go through CUPS?

Docker Desktop on macOS?

If your RX 580 works and your packages are up-to-date, I see no reason a more recent AMD card wouldn’t be plug-and-play.

What tax benefits? Sure they can deduct the donation, but that just cancels out the income from you giving them the money to donate. It’s net zero for the company.

Nearly all of my friends make less than $5k per month, and all of them have SSDs as the boot drive in their computer.

On Debian Testing or Unstable you don’t have to worry about that as much. Right now, I have rustc 1.80.1 from the Testing repo, just one version behind.

Would GrapheneOS with default settings be immune since 2G is disabled and networks don’t have 3G anymore?

Well, I’ll tell you that I prefer systemd because I can comprehend its declarative unit files and dependency-based system a lot better than the shell script DSLs and runlevels that I’ve had to mess with in other init systems. systemctl status has a quite nice output that can be really handy when debugging units. I like being able to pull up logs for just about any service on my system with a simple journalctl command instead of researching where the log file is.

or inetd!

The real world benefit is that scrolling is smooth, not choppy.

I try my hand at packaging it for my distro.

That would be contrib - free software that downloads or relies on non-free software. non-free and non-free-firmware just contain straight up non-free (but redistributable) binaries.

Was this with the most recent version of Debian? Bookworm includes non-free firmware with the installer now.

Ubuntu did.

I have most certainly had OS installs (from every vendor) that worked flawlessly for a while. Why are you pretending as if those don’t exist?

And? Why does that matter?

Is nicotine not a drug?