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Eww, AI "music"
Free Software, as defined by the FSF, cannot restrict commercial use, and the OSI says the same about Open Source.
John Oovoojaver
OMG Lisp alien!
SMB is weird, do you have the option to run NFS on the share instead? Since NFS is made for Unix systems, it's what I've always gone for.
They didn't. The rootkit just does not run on mac, they disable it entirely for that client.
On a more serious note - check your local laws. My contract said I'm not allowed to have pets, but where I live you cannot deny your tenants that right, so that part is void. A lot of neighbors also have pets, so it's very much fine.
Studied languages at a university in Sweden, using only libre programs, except for one group assignment where we used Google docs. Nothing terribly interesting (computer-wise). Everything worked. Professors wanted .docx files, which LibreOffice happily exported. If I was so inclined, nothing would've stopped me from using something like OpenBSD, or hell, even Haiku would probably work.
Maybe try Qwant?
Another vote for Debian here. Very low-maintenance distro and you can install it with as many or as few packages as you wish.