foot is such a lovely little program. It has everything I want for a terminal emulator: it launches instantly, it has zero lag, no fluff, excellent font rendering, excellent copy/paste handling, excellent compatibility, and it's easily configurable and themable via a sensible, well documented config file.
TFW I realize I am a foot fetishist ... 😮
If you install Linux Mint today, you’ll still be able to update it in october and beyond, for the foreseeable future
One caveat: Linux distributions, even LTS variants, usually have a shorter support period than Windows, after which you have to upgrade your distribution, which is much like doing a Windows upgrade.
A particular version of Linux Mint, the example you mentioned, is supported for 4 years, whereas Windows 10 was supported for 10 years.
Not really the same scenario. PCs that could run Windows 7 could usually upgrade to 10, people were just reluctant to do so, partly also because 8 and 8.1 were such disasters. Eventually, everyone just moved on.
Today, a lot of 10 users would upgrade to 11 if they could, but their older-but-still-fine hardware is simply being cut off from Windows support.
Counterpoint: To install this program curl ... | sudo bash
Just run DDU bro.
Just run scansfx /now bro.
Just run oobe\bypassnro bro.
Just run Chris Titus Tech Tool bro.
No Linux is too hard bro.
Harmful is just code for "threatens the bottom line of multibillion dollar companies". There is no relation to anything that matters to real people.
the installer completely shit itself and the screen went black, could not recover from it
I don't think that this is the standard experience people have. I've installed Windows 11 more than a few times for family members and for my gaming pc, and while I find Windows insufferably annoying, black screens were not part of the experience.
weird issues with my rgb and fan control software
That's the motherboard manufacturers, that's not on Windows.
All motherboard manufacturer software plain sucks. MSI, Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte ... the lot of them. Just don't install that garbage.
I think the point is that parents have less influence than ever when kids are getting their values from online communities.
I think 10GbE is more intended for local applications than for internet. Say, you have a NAS with a RAID array of nvme drives for video editing purposes that you want to access from a few workstations.
Even the other day I was quite happy to have 2.5GbE when I installed my new gaming PC, and steam was able to pull all my games directly from my old computer rather than downloading them over the internet again.
Anyway, LAN speeds have always been an order of magnitude higher than common internet speeds, so I don't see the issue.
Yes you can and should upgrade, which is what I was trying to say really. It's less set and forget as in "just let it update and it will keep on trucking for 10 years".
I think only the enterprise distributions (RHEL etc) do 10 year support, but they are not very usable for a desktop system, and I can tell from experience you start to run into compatibility and support issues with software if you actually use it for that long.
Debian is +- 5 years by the way.