I don't think there's any simple answer to what's beginner-friendly, because so much is hardware-dependent. They mentioned obscure laptop hardware, and at that point I wouldn't even make a recommendation to someone beyond "see if any distros have a wiki page about that specific hardware, and search for forum threads about it".
I'm sure there are cases when Arch is a lot easier than Mint. I'm not sure why they dismissed Fedora out of hand, though. What's wrong with Fedora?
No love for cvs?
And that's the #1 reason to use Mint over Ubuntu!
Snaps make a little more sense in servers since you can package CLI stuff in snaps, but not in flatpaks. For GUI apps, it's "fine" but it doesn't solve new problems, and the way Canonical has migrated apt packages to snaps is aggressive and error-prone.
Honestly, that sounds great.
My biggest problem with Flatpak is that Flathub has all sorts of weird crap, and depending on your UI it's not always easy to tell what's official and what's just from some rando. I don't want a repo full of "unverified" packages to be a first-class citizen in my distro.
Distros can and should curate packages. That's half the point of a distro.
And yes, the idea of packaging dependencies in their own isolated container per-app comes with real downsides: I can't simply patch a library once at the system level.
I'm running a Fedora derivative and I wasn't even aware of this option. I'm going to look into it now because it sounds better than Flathub.
The legality is also questionable. It seems, currently, there is no law specifically forbidding changing the IMEI of a device you own, but it’s definitely a gray area.
So...in what way is this a gray area?
Google Pixel hardware isn’t great
This is true, but if you're coming from a Galaxy S8, a Pixel 9 will be a significant upgrade in performance. More comparable to an S21 or S22 as far as cpu performance goes.
The experience of installing and updating GPU drivers can be very different across different distros. Especially if you use secure boot. This was such a pain point for me on Tumbleweed that I just pinned my kernel.
Hi! Please consider offering downloads in epub format as well as PDF. PDF is difficult to work with, particularly when it has a hardcoded dark background like the Meteorina files. I am not able to read these comfortably on my e-reader, for example.
If you have source files in some other form you might be able to convert them easily to epub with something like Pandoc. I'd be willing to help figure out the process if you can send me a source sample to work with.
37% used is no problem.
Don't sweat it until you're at 80-90%.
The only possible silver lining to all this is that perhaps "normal" people will finally start to care about the problems techies have been screaming about for 20+ years now.
It was inevitable that a bad actor would gain access eventually, because there is no such a thing as an organization that you can trust in perpetuity. That obviously doesn't excuse the actual bad actors that now have access.
DNS over HTTPS. It allows encrypted DNS lookup with a URL, which allows for url-based customizations not possible with traditional DNS lookups (e.g. the server could have /ads or /trackers endpoints so you can choose what to block).
DNS Over TLS (DoT) is similar, but it doesn't use URLs, just IP addresses like generic DNS. Both are encrypted.