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Yeah. I don't like snap but like, that's not new and always been part of their plan. Bit weird to say the lost the plot now

What makes you say that? In the post apart from the usual snap bs, it all seems pretty standard and good. Not even a single AI mention.

🤓☝️yesh' but, did you consider that uh... checks notes hmm.. Linux difficult?

/s

good luck getting more than a few hours into a fresh linux install without needing to use a CLI, lol

I use the terminal on my dev machine, but that's because of what I do. Never opened the terminal on my laptops.

I don't use my laptops for gaming, only casual web browsing and the occasional 3d print or code script.
I have used fedora in the past but a failed update broke it, so I'm using cachyos now.
The only issue I had with the laptop, is that it's recognized as a 2-in-1 and sometimes would switch to the tablet mode which disabled the keyboard. Either I found how to disable it or cachy doesn't have the issue.

I'm curious what setup you have to do?
I do some customization of KDE on my desktop, but for my laptops it's always install and use without the need to setup anything.

It makes sense, but once it's pushed there is no way to know if it's been cloned or kept somewhere else. The only real mitigation is to rotate the keys or password that was leaked.
If it's something else you can't rotate, you're screwed.

Plus won't the forks on GitHub keep the history before the "reset"?
Afaik, forks on GitHub are basically the same underlying repository, just a branch associated with another user. They won't be able to really purge anything from these other branches.
Plus anyone who has a local copy of the repo or an automatic mirror somewhere else, will have the changes available.

They give you the option to disable it. What more do you want? Custom builds where only the features you want built just for you?

Opt-in features never get used.

It will improve over time, and it's still infinitely better than giving google translate your data

You speak every language?
Even if I understand french and English, and both are disabled from suggesting a translation; I don't speak German and I find using it to translate in place without giving my data to Google is pretty good.