Get out of here. “Everyone”??? Well then, “everyone” can put their effort and their money behind the solution they want. Nobody is stopping them. If they do nothing, then they made their choice. That’s how FOSS works. If other people are paying and doing the work, while you and “everyone” does nothing, you have no room to complain.

“Everybody’s adopting other solutions. Our idea must be bad. Let’s consider other other solutions and decide if we want to continue with our current implementation.” /FTFY

I’m ded.

That’s actually a great feature. Not suggested near enough. Unfortunately, as easy as it is, it’s still well above the average user who just wants to open a browser and check their web page. I think average users need to be encouraged to just get help from a friend or a LUG, just like the late 90’s and early 2000’s for Windows.

That’s how FOSS works. Good ideas get adopted, bad ideas lose adoption. Even I dropped Gnome because of their bike shedding. This is the way.

You got me. Average FOSS user here. Be the change you want to see or make the changes you want to see. Stop whining and complaining. Pretty simple.

You have the opportunity to be the change you want to see or make the change you want to see. Whining and crying about it doesn’t help anybody. It’s time you learned that.

Sounds like a good opportunity to add the features in the way you see fit.

If’s FOSS, don’t cry about it, implement the feature the way you think is best; just like every one else.

haha, I’ve told people to just google around for over a decade now. Sounds like that’s bad advice now. Is Geek Squad still a thing?

yeah, when I had a Win2k or XP machine to play video games, I would run into issues all the time. Fix Windows on my machine helped me fix other people machines. After a more than a decade of not fixing a Windows machine, best I can do is google around. Same thing they can do.

LMAO, back in my Slackware days (3.4, 3.6, 4.0, 7.0), If I had to build from source, which was most things, step1: ./configure step2: install the missing package step3: goto step1 until no missing packages identified step4: make step5: make install

Sometimes my packages were too old, So I would just go to step1 for each package that also needed to be newer. I’m not even a Linux Expert, and I definitely wasn’t a Linux Expert then. All the building from source helps me jump into software projects and become productive real quick though.

Exactly, it’s just people finding an excuse to complain about. It’s more like an extension of the Unix wars or the editor wars or the browser wars. People have to find a reason to justify their choice.

It’s LTS only. If you moved off of LTS, you wont’s see it again.

It’s only LTS. Desktop users rarely use LTS. Great to have live kernel updates on a developer workstation and servers though.

If you have pro enabled on an LTS version of Ubuntu, then you get live security updates, too include the kernel, as well as security updates for 10 years. Handy for developer workstations though. These people are whining and crying when desktop users rarely use the LTS version.

That’s awesome. This is why Linux is king. The Linux inertia is building.

https://rhinolinux.org/

Not Debian, but closer if you haven’t seen it.

Yeah, it’s the Cognitive Bias fallacy. Reminds me of all the anti Linux users who continue using the “Linux wont be ready for the average user, because no average user wants to write a compiler from scratch just so they can compile their programs”. If you don’t like something, you don’t like it. No problem, no reason to whine and cry about it. You like a different distro, great, go use it. That’s how distro’s work. Everything eventually helps everybody and you just pick a distro that gets you close to what you want. I started with Slackware 3.4, to me everything is great.

Thanks for the info. If I ever get upgraded security privileges, I’ll be sure to look for it.