Best way to figure out which one you’re happiest with is to try them out yourself, or look at an existing comparison list. Or else pare things down to a more specific question, because I doubt anyone is going to do a lengthy comparison here.
Depends on what you’re doing. If you’re okay with very limited Web use, even 2GB is viable (or was about a year ago when I retired that machine). More normal levels of Web use, you’re going to need more RAM. Not sure about GPU-constrained loads like 3D modeling, as I never tried them on that machine. But other than those and some games, nothing on Linux should require even 8GB. Server systems can make do with even less.
Or, you could just use Gentoo, which offers you an even wider array of possibilities for getting into trouble on the command line.
Easier ≠ better. Granted, most amateur-written UIs aren’t that great, but I find anything created specifically for the web is almost always worse. They’re massively bloated, they reinvent wheels all the time (and ship them out while they’re still egg-shaped with off-centre axles), and they don’t adapt well to systems with non-default settings.
As for Java UI coding, well, I did enough of it, back in the day. Tedious, sometimes nitpicky, but far from the worst thing I’ve ever done, codewise.
There are other options for that, though, and I’d rather have Java, with all its issues, any day.
I think it’s more “people who trained only in web development can produce what they fondly think is a desktop application”.
Exactly. Justice is not fast food. It takes more than a few weeks or even months to go through the steps.
Still using Aqualung. However, my only requirements for a player are that it handle local files, handle m3u playlists, and not try to force a “music library” system on me (Aqualung offers it as an option only, which I’ve been ignoring for something like a decade and a half).
The TDE version of amarok still has vizualizer support. Not sure how it is on modern streaming, though.
I’m in Ohio. I wonder how hard it’d be to drive to Canada, pick up a router, and drive back?
You jest, but I suspect this is going to be a Thing. I mean, people were willing to do it for eggs (and getting caught at the border), and a router’s a rather larger purchase.
. . . and it all boils down to “Canonical being into rent-seeking and having weird NIH issues that make it push low-quality own software (snaps in the current iteration, but there have been others) over better solutions used by other distros.”
Time and energy to prep meals is also a cost. I don’t know how it is in Europe, but in North America, the poor-but-employed segment of the population is often working multiple minimum wage jobs to stay afloat. Even if they know how to cook and have the tools to do so, they may be too tired when they get home to do more than pop a pizza in the oven.
Why do I still have a 32" TV? Because that’s the largest size that’s still readily available as an ordinary, cheap, flat dumb panel with a tuner. (Well, that and I don’t especially need a larger one.)
Is it terrible that I’d like to see an LLM trained exclusively on translated shoujo manga trying to give teen boys advice about this?
Yes, there are parts of Canada that remote that still have roads. I grew up in one of them. Let’s posit an urgent but not-likely-to-be-fatal medical emergency, like the torn and detached retina I had a few years ago. That required an urgent trip to a major city in particularly foul winter weather. Nearest major city to where I grew up was 800+km, and there are other towns further out than that one. Add to that battery loss in the cold, plus loss of battery capacity over time if you’ve had the car for a while, plus the vehicle having maybe already been driven that day without time to recharge completely . . . I can think of places up in that neck of the woods where I would be seriously worried that 1000km of rated range wouldn’t be enough, although it would be more than sufficient for where I’m now living.
So I’m talking about shit that, in my experience, actually happens to actual people. The segment of the population involved is, admittedly, not all that large, but it’s of nonzero size—probably on the order of a few million, worldwide, spread through a number of countries that have large areas of empty nothing.
1000km range is fucking stupid. No one should be driving that far at once
I take it you’ve never had an emergency while living in a remote area. Especially not one with cold winters that will tank your EV’s range.
Took me a while to spot the kitty, even though he’s dead center.
If most people don’t want it enough to opt in, then it belongs in an extension, not the base browser. Then it’s still there for the ones who actually do want it, but won’t bother anyone else.
Pretty much, or any other fork that didn’t add this garbage in the first place.
Only in the US. Other countries will be able to push the prices down.
If your employer is forcing it on you, chances are you never even saw the TOS.