Endymion_Mallorn

Okay, that’s nice and all - but what about sharing ‘to-read’ and ‘have-read’ lists with friends and/or family?

Okay, and? It’s a proprietary browser for a company sponsoring paid search using a Russian engine. I’m quite happy to avoid.

Then whatever a modern OS is under your model is not an OS I’m willing to use. I’ve seen Win 11. I’m going to stick with 10, as I stuck with XP through Vista, had a second machine with 7 through 8(.x), and then surrendered and used Win10 when the 32-bit Win7 machine finally stopped working for love or money.

Mint has worked consistently for me on the PC it’s installed on.

Mint works like Windows and has a lot to offer any Windows 10 user who’s already using FOSS. And tbh Hypnotix alone justified the install of Mint for me. I got a great IPTV viewer, plus a PC that runs everything I want.

Note: I only regularly want Discord, Firefox, Endless Sky, OpenTTD, RetroArch, and LibreOffice. I’m sure everyone else has different goals.

To go in reverse order: iOS & Android are related because they’re Linux/UNIX. They’re not CP/M based. As a result, my level of trust and respect are always near-zero.

I’m glad you have a different experience with GNOME, someone ought to. I guess it wouldn’t be the standard if no one could use it.

GNOME is explicitly what kept me exclusively on Windows for about a decade - and what made me gunshy about Android & iOS. It’s totally impossible to drive anything important, doing anything of value required a DOS prompt and arcane commands that had no relation to their exact counterpart in Windows, and it’s just utterly revolting to me.

Cinnamon is the only DE that made me feel comfortable daily driving Linux.

As someone who wanted to jump in with both feet on my journey to using more than just Windows & mobile OSes, I actually started from Arch. Well, sort of. If you have a beginner who wants to try Linux and actually wants to know the discomfort they’ll experience, give them Archbang.

It works on very basic hardware requirements, does very well as a live distro, and was honestly an important step in my personal journey that has ended me up in a place where I keep two systems - one with Windows 10, and a separate computer with Linux Mint.

Obviously, I’m not in the place many people are. But I just wanted to toss in my 2 cents. Arch itself is not for beginners. Archbang can be, especially if you have a user who’s open to a live distro and doesn’t want to try dual-booting yet (and only has one computer). I think that the project deserves more visibility and support than it gets.

If it gets as difficult as it used to be on Debian and Ubuntu, I’m running back to Windows.

Thanks to Mint’s updates… about 10 minutes.

Khorne?

I hope you’re right. I just have the problem of thinking if you’ve got 9 megacorp supports and one nonprofit, you have 10 supporters for the largest megacorp.

When it comes to a megacorp like Alphabet/Google, assuming foul play and bribery should always be the kneejerk.

So the Linux Foundation is in Google’s pocket. Good to know,

Much easier to get and install a copy of WinXP than old Linux.

Well, that’ll be a problem for anything that’s got crossplay between XP and Linux in a local environment.

I’d never thought of using Waterfox. Instead, most of my browsing is Pale Moon & SeaMonkey. Are there any good guides to making Waterfox look like a serious browser?

I miss 3.5, and I hate the current Chrome-lite design. I want tabs underneath my address bar.

As someone who’s mostly in a similar place to you, I think the only option currently is to try dual-booting (or getting a second machine just for Linux stuff). I’d suggest starting with Linux Mint as the version to use. It looks and feels a lot like Windows, minus a few exceptions that you can probably get around. I think you’ll need to keep Windows 10 around for a while longer, as well. The biggest things to note: Capital letters matter in Linux, and the Run dialog defaults to Alt+F2 (I know it’s weird in comparison, but you’ll either get used to it or reassign it)

I don’t know if you have the WSL set up on your PC, I know that I don’t. But that’s a good place to start trying it out if you have it. Either that, or in a virtual machine (VMWare or something like it). Then, slowly shift over to Linux as much as you can. You should be able to run Windows 10 in a virtual environment under Linux (this sharply reduces the security risks that you mentioned).

You do not need to use Firefox on Linux, no more than you need to use Edge on Windows. Brave, Vivaldi, even Chrome, are available from most repositories (aka app stores). Just search on the website flathub,org (in Mint, you can install Flatpak apps through the main installer, or the command line, your choice), Chances are there’s a Linux version of the browser you use available somehow (I say this as a Pale Moon user). The only exception to this is Safari, but there are WebKit browsers available.

They’re for iOS, because the main tablet is an iPad. The first one is Clime (which used to be called NOAA Radar), and the second is called MyRadar.