Which means conditioner is irrelevant for anyone without long hair

$2 is a normal price on Aliexpress for an Esp32 C3 super mini, $4 is almost expensive

We have had android phones with 6gb ram since 2016, which was 10 years ago. 3gb is absolutely ancient when it comes to android phones

Don’t even get me started on MacOS archive bits. At least the DS_store files are only annoying and don’t break functionality when using the drive on other devices 😑

Not 15 year old laptops. Like that’s 32nm Sandy bridge or even older

I can tell you live somewhere with cheap electricity

That said I currently have to work on a Mac mini at some times, and that uses usb-c to c… And I have to disconnect the cable and reconnect it after near every reboot to get the monitor to recognize.

Thats a known issue with the Mac Mini when using monitors not made by Apple. I get the same issue when connecting my Monitor using HDMI to my M4 Mac Mini

Sadly that’s only common for desktop PCs, with laptops it’s a lot less common. But many can be updated from within Linux nowadays

It’s trivial for you.

The average windows user has no idea what “Rufus” is, or how to enter the bios and change the boot priority

Very exiting. I’m looking forward to the day I can finally ditch Plex

I think you are the first person to ever have had issues with printers on Linux if you are surprised by them working on Bazzite. Printers are one of the things that almost always “just work” on Linux, and are only a driver headache on Windows

Yeah, I meant unlike with Linux you can’t change certain core functionality of your OS. Stuff like just entirely replacing the window manager for a different one. You can do a lot of powerful stuff with kernel extensions, but even those are limited (and apple made it a lot more complicated to install kernel extensions on Apple Silicon compared to how it worked on Intel Macs)

Mac isn’t really a walled garden in the sense iOS is without jailbreak. You can install unsigned code out of the box, have similar Admin privileges as on windows (but not as powerful as a superuser on Linux), and it integrates very well into an otherwise non-Apple household. You can use quickshare with android phones or windows PCs instead of using apple airdrop for example, which is something iOS users can only dream of

I prefer hackintosh over Linux on my Thinkpad, even though battery life is slightly worse (but still way better than it was out of the box with windows)

It also will automatically configure wine for you if you attempt to open a EXE or MSI file

https://help.zorin.com/docs/apps-games/windows-app-support/

A m4 macbook air is $800 and absolutely stomps every laptop even remotely in that price bracket

A lot of that can be said about RHEL too, yet I would call that Linux

Weird title. In what way is ChromeOS not the ChromeOS of Linux?

So you’ve only had 2 phones in the last 10 years? Impressive

Germany has that law and it doesn’t change anything. Although part of the reason why might be that no one actually brings their devices back, instead just throwing them in the trash

Well, it could be an executable disguising itself as svchost. Pretty common for malware or video game cheats to name their executables svchost.exe to hide from anti-virus/anticheat