I’m just as pissed off about that as the next guy, but I stand by my recommendation despite it.

Can confirm. I’m using Kubuntu because the Debian installer didn’t detect my hardware correctly and I couldn’t be bothered to figure out why. Aside from snaps, I don’t care.

Ubuntu.

throws chair “Fine, it’s just GNU then!”

Gentoo? That’s a distro I haven’t used in a long time. A long time…

ಠ_ಠ

Well it would, except it was stored on /dev/sda1…

I use Kubuntu, BTW.

WINC? 😉

WINE itself is open source, but it’s designed to facilitate the use of proprietary software. (This is because although it can be used to run open-source Windows software, best practice would be to recompile or port that stuff to Linux instead.)

If proprietary software is often malware and WINE is designed to facilitate proprietary software, then WINE is designed to facilitate malware.

(FWIW, I agree with the above statement, but use Wine anyway for a few games.)

Linux has a bunch of different “desktop environments” (user interfaces that look and act somewhat different). Cinnamon is one of them that happens to feel relatively familiar to folks migrating from Windows.

(If you want to get a feel for what different DEs are like, try downloading different variants of the Ubuntu distribution — plain Ubuntu (with the GNOME DE), Kubuntu (KDE), Xubuntu (XFCE), Lubuntu (LXDE), etc. — which differ only in which DE they come with by default. Run them straight off a flash drive to try them out.)

Personally, I tend to use KDE, but it’s a choice very much based on personal taste rather than any objective superiority of one DE over another.

If it doesn’t conform to the format, you should pick a different one that it does conform to and use that instead.

Fuck it, it’s just GNU now. Honestly, who cares which kernel it’s using anyway?