Turnabout’s fair play.

I am using the latest Debian on an Asus Vivobook laptop.

My only issue is a thing I bring upon myself and is cosmetic. I use an external monitor on the laptop and for text fields I sometimes get spurious lines between rows of text, not an underline, but between the actual rows.

It is a little strange and I could just go back to using the laptop screen only if it bugged me too much, so the higher tolerance argument fits this I guess. Otherwise it has been really great. I used to use only the laptop’s monitor so I had no problems before with the setup I mentioned. I might just go back to use only the laptop’s monitor because I can use the external screen elsewhere.

In fact I think I will, It would be nicer to have a color screen for my Apple IIc+ :^)

I also have a desktop machine running Debian 12 semi headless (the monitor is turned off 90% of the time), this machine is a file storage, backup target, and sometimes an SSH target.

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KDE - Was Gnome, but I switched for a reason. I, uh, forgot the reason.

Well, I am not in Australia, but so far my AT&T Uverse has worked well. We don’t need the VOIP or TVOIP we use our cell phones and don’t watch TV so it’s all Internet.

The central office at the other end of that fiber probably has emergency generators too.

In an area power outage, if one keeps the router alive via UPS does the router have anything to talk to? In my case I am “Fiber to the node”, there is a box on the sidewalk at the other end of the block that receives the fiber, then copper to my house.

Debian lights up an icon in the System Tray. When I am ready I can either click on that icon to bring up the package manager GUI or I can open a Konsole window and run ‘sudo nala update’ then ‘sudo nala upgrade’. (Nala is a beautiful front end for apt)

This is true of any OS, The people who build the OS for you to use can build in all kinds of sneaky stuff - see “Trusting Trust” about an invisible trojan in the C compiler. An issue with Microsoft Vs. Most Any Linux is the whether the maintainer’s goals and the User’s goals are oriented in the same direction. Microsoft wants to get data about you for whatever purpose whereas Most Any Linux maintainer’s main goal is to produce an OS that is as free of bugs and is as useful and as secure as possible.

Funny, that Linux manages to 1) Tell you when updates are available and leaves it up to you to apply them 2) Apply updates quickly, rarely over a minute. 3) Even more rarely requires a reboot. Because of these three features, I am usually more than happy to install an update any time one is available when I come to a convenient point to do so.

So far, and since I have been running Debian for a while now I don’t know about Ubuntu specifically, All the distros I have used either show an update is available, or you check for updates.

You have the choice and control to install the update and can do it later if now is not a good time. Or don’t install it at all, it’s your system.

Unfortunately, all it takes is a change in the HOA board to turn a better HOA into a badder HOA.

You will not find a developer standing at your front door saying “Sorry, Updating the house- you can’t go in right now” - and if you buy a home usually you can remodel but if you are in an HOA you probably have to beg permission to do anything that would be visible from the street.

Perhaps Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc are either pre-built homes delivered complete by truck or a stick-built home built to specifications provided by an architect.

In any case, remodeling is a possibility.

@ComradeMiao : Ondsel? I did see a post that they were going to quit.

Is there a version of Sketch up for Linux?

Packing dishes you can also use your clean kitchen towels/dishcloths too. Number your boxes too: 1 of 20, 2 of 20. Borg like.

I have an AI-generated image that looks very much like Bliss, the prompt was "“Deep Blue sky. Small puffy, bright white clouds. Grassy green hill.”

My Wallpaper is a set of “Neon” artwork I did on Night Cafe. They have black backgrounds which can be centered and merge with the black border around (so it always looks like the art was made for this particular screen setup, including the panel on the left. One of my favorites: https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/Z0dVGQxc4Uyy3jCm8Nyz?ru=waspentalive

Good choice for the Microsoft Surface - The BORG. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.