For a fair comparison you should at least use the same font and font size. Did you try that? It will still look different on windows, maybe better, but I think you can get pretty close. I use the “inter” font on debian xfce and it looks very clean (the font is probably in your repos as well).
But of course everyone decided it is just easier to nag all the users with a big splash screen.
Nope, the thing is, you’ll very rarely find a website that only uses technically necessary session/login cookies. The reason every removeding website, yes, even the one from the barber shop around the corner, has a humongous cookie banner is that every removeding website helps google and other corporations to track users across the whole internet for no reason.
I can recommend debian testing. I’m using it on laptop and desktop for several years, always running “apt update && apt full-upgrade && apt --purge autoremove” and it never broke. It’s not officially a “rolling release” but practically it is.
Obviously not. Building a modern browser engine from scratch is an immense undertaking, so it’s definitely possible that it will never be usable as a replacement for every day webbrowsing. But for now I won’t give up hope :)
“trustworthy AI”
Why? Why can’t we have even a single decent browser? Servo is my last hope.
It’s not a rolling release though, right? I mean mint is nice, but I am absolutely pleased with my experience using debian testing as daily driver for years while it just stays perfectly up to date and never breaks (as opposed to arch or even manjaro).
Debian (testing branch): Add normal firefox to the repo. Firefox ESR is total bullremoved that makes zero sense to use. I always install it either as flatpak or from the unstable repos using apt-pinning (which works great though!)
Hahaha so true
All bluetooth headphones should work.
How can you even use a system with only 3 browsers installed? Quick, install edge! Also don’t forget brave, the famous crypto scam that looks like a browser and is run by a homophobe asshole.
I use Inter for the UI and SF Mono (from Macos) for terminal and coding.
Yes, the linux kernel will work! I’d say it’s even more likely that wifi, soundcard, etc. work without any problems than if you’d buy a bleeding edge laptop (although these mostly also just work nowadays). The oldest machine I’ve got is a laptop from 12 years ago which easily runs modern linux, but even much older machines shouldn’t have a problem with that, at least not with the kernel.
There is no “gnome” version of linux mint, but they probably meant the “cinnamon” version (which I would also recommend for a newcomer).
I can’t help you but I just came here to say that I also very much dislike the trend that everything has to look flat. Imho visual, simulated depth (through shadows, gradients, etc.) can make UIs look actually much cleaner, because hierarchy, grouping of elements and differentiation between buttons/text inputs and non-interactive elements is often much more obvious on first sight.
For some time now I mostly write rust and I’m actually very satisfied with VS Code and rust-analyzer. I tried intelliJ-rust but didn’t find it better. To be fair, I haven’t tried the new jetbrains rust IDE though.
If jetbrains is that much better really depends on the language. Also, jetbrains removed is damn expensive, so not a fair comparison.
Reaper is indeed amazing. For electronic music and sound design, I’d say studio one has some advantages though. The absolute champion for that is Bitwig, which also works on linux and seems to be very underrated in general!
Unfortunately most plugins don’t work on linux though. Hopefully that will change too. Bitwig is another amazing DAW that does have a linux version. You can even install it via flathub!
You’re right. I guess what I was trying to say is that I don’t think the author has unreasonable expectations. The fact that it is unrealistic that anyone follows these is kinda sad.
Then just download it e.g. from github: https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases