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I offer that it's actually worse, since it requires acting on it and knowing it's wrong.

If you're using vague, borderline nonsensical phrases like "install files" when trying to find out how to do things that might go some way towards explaining it.

Old hardware is certainly possible. I salvaged it from my parents who were going to throw it out. It's got an A10-8700P and is limping along with a single 4GB DIMM. The thing doesn't even have a second memory slot.

I do like the dedication to Mint! To be honest it's generally my default pick if I need to slap Linux onto something. I actually tried putting it on the gaming table machine but for reasons I didn't feel like digging into it just did not cooperate, and Debian did.

CachyOS on the luggable gaming machine is mostly just because I hadn't used it before and wanted to give it a spin. So far so good.

As for the Windows machine, it's a gaming rig and at the time it was built, pre-steam deck, Linux wasn't quite yet in as good a position for that as it is now. I just can't be bothered to switch it mid-stream as it were. It's almost certainly going to be the last Windows machine I ever own though.

• Luggable gaming rig: CachyOS
• Surface Go 2: Mint
• Old laptop strapped to the underside of the gaming table: Debian
• NUC home server: Ubuntu Server
• Steam Deck: SteamOS

Non-linux:

• Gaming tower: Windows
• Previous gaming tower repurposed as NAS: TrueNAS

True size is possible just fine on a 2D surface. For both too large and too small to be even possible there must exist some transitional point where the size is correct.

You cannot have both the size and shape correct at the same time. Having the correct size means distorting the shape, and vise versa. One or the other can be correct, but never both.

I have a handed down Surface Go 2 with 4GB of RAM. The thing was damn near unusable with its stock Windows installation. I've put Mint on it now and it's actually a nice little machine.

Ugh, I've run into this as well.

Several times now I've commissioned a professional artist to create posters of D&D/Pathfinder groups I've run campaigns with. I'm in a new campaign that started this month and did an initial look around to begin scouting out an artist for another and my god. Having to sift through all the obvious AI "portfolios" is bad enough, let alone trying to suss out the ones that are using it in less obvious ways. I've settled on filtering my search to only artists for whom I can find works prior to 2023 or so. It's insane.

I don't really disagree, at least in principle. You're absolutely correct that workflows should be clear and developers often do not make good UI/UX. You just didn't really qualify your original statement with any of that and made it an absolute, but you've clarified now and I'm pretty sure we agree.

a UI should offer everything a user can do in a given moment, readily available, nothing hidden behind more than a single menu.

That would be a nightmare for any sufficiently complex software. Can you imagine how dense the UI would need to be for something like Blender or even Excel if literally every possible option of "things available to do right now" had to be at most two clicks away?

People can be busy or tired or anything else. You aren't owed 100% engagement all of the time, even from your friends.

They are in general purpose PCs though. Intel has them taking up die space in a bunch of their recent core ultra processors.