If you’re looking for commercial games on Linux, Steam has pretty much solved this with the “Steam Play” compatibility feature, which uses a customized version of WINE to run Windows games. For example, Baldur’s Gate 3 runs perfectly. It should work anywhere Steam does.

Ubuntu on Desktop I can understand.

Not anymore. A whole extra, unneeded, proprietary, locked-in package system. Ads in the default install.

There’s Mint, Pop!, and plenty of other options that actually respect the user.

Remember SOAP? Remember XML-RPC? Remember CORBA?

Those were not very good.

1993 or so, before kernel 1.0. Slackware on floppies, then Debian, then Ubuntu, then Mint, now Pop!_OS.

I got a rather profitable career out of it: went into IT during/after college, then got hired into a big Silicon Valley company, stayed in that area for several years, then quit during COVID.

Nazi furries have been a thing for years. The regular furries don’t like them.

Hotmail and Gmail have “mail” in the name, too.

Then it’s probably just more. Again: your post did not contain enough information for anyone to provide an answer to your question.

Antivirus doesn’t do what it promises. The only general solution for a compromised system is a clean reinstall. (This is true in Windows too.)

A process can change its name. If I wanted to make sneaky malware for Linux, I’d have it call itself more or something innocuous too.

The correct answer is “this is not enough information”. Why should a real more process eat ¼ of a core for any substantial amount of time?

Create a new community. Host your own instance.

If you log out of websites & delete your cookies on Windows, random browsing may be more inconvenient there.

Fake headline.

That’s the main advantage of parted over fdisk + mkfs, really.

Sure, but if I were recommending a Linux OS to a first-time user, I wouldn’t recommend today’s Ubuntu as it is likely to lock them into a proprietary single-vendor system, which is contrary to one of the main points of promoting free software.

The first-time user might not immediately notice the difference, but it’s (unfortunately) bad for free software to have more new users starting on today’s Ubuntu.

This is pretty sad because Ubuntu used to be the obvious choice to recommend to new users.

Mint and pop are basically ubuntu.

Big difference: Pop, at least, does not push Canonical’s proprietary “Snap” nonsense. You can use it if you really want, but it’s not installed by default. No snapd on my system, thanks.

Maybe Facebook has bigger problems because they’re so huge; like being a bigger target for attack by hate groups.

Maybe they just really like their fancy offices and cafeterias.

Maybe it’s just better for the world if online speech is diversified over lots of small services instead of one monopoly service; and this is reflected in the way the world actually behaves towards these different services.

Facebook doesn’t have a lot of reason to go be telling exactly the truth there …

One note: It’s pretty rare for tech companies to directly issue profits to shareholders (i.e. as dividends). Rather, profits are usually reinvested into expanding the company; and shareholders make money by selling shares that have risen in value.

I’d suggest the “complex internal politics, manager layers, architects” – and the fancy offices, cafeterias, and other amenities – are actually quite a lot more expensive than the developers.

But don’t underestimate ads, and things that are similar to ads. In competitive markets, ads are really expensive, because ads are rivalrous. Venture A has to outbid Venture B for ad placement. The same sort of logic goes for hiring, especially hiring of trend-driven fields like project management. (“I’m a Scrum Master, who are you, a scum master?”)

Could you explain in detail how you, personally, are helping?

Or, more generally, on what basis do you think you know better?

Look at the actual numbers.

In August, total expenses = €1205, total donations = €2649

People want this thing to work and are willing to donate to make it happen. And again, it’s not as expensive to run as you seem to think.