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.

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?

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.

This is what Debian is for.

Why Linux is portrayed as a Penguin?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot)

Before I got around to learning vi, I spent a few years using joe, which seems to have fallen out of active development (the last release was in 2018). It’s a terminal-based editor that bears some resemblance to old DOS editors.

https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/

You can explore a GUI if it’s safe to do so. If a user has been burned by easily putting their system into an unrecoverable state, they develop a fear of exploring. “I don’t want to change anything; I might break my computer / lose all my work / get a virus!” is a really common fear.

It’s better that vulnerabilities be discussed openly. In general, people knowing the truth allows them to make better decisions.

enterprises

… can pay engineers, rather than expecting volunteers to fix everything for them.

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If you want Windows, you know where to find it.

KoboldAI has an “KoboldGPT” mode, which is for answering questions. You can try it at https://lite.koboldai.net/ or run it on your own.

Here’s an example conversation I just had with it (emoji icons added):

🤖 Hello, I am KoboldGPT, your personal AI assistant. What would you like to know?

🧑 What is the name of the original version of the game Monopoly?

🤖 The original version of the game Monopoly is called “The Landlord’s Game.” It was created by Elizabeth Magie in the early 20th century. However, the most well-known version of Monopoly today is based on a variant called “Monopoly” that was designed by Charles Darrow in 1935.

🧑 Did “The Landlord’s Game” have any purpose besides being a board game?

🤖 Yes, “The Landlord’s Game” had a specific purpose beyond being a board game. Elizabeth Magie created it as a way to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies. She believed that it could be used as a tool for teaching economic concepts such as rent, taxes, and the distribution of wealth.

🧑 What economic ideology was associated with this game?

🤖 Elizabeth Magie was influenced by Henry George’s philosophy of Georgism. Georgists believe that land should belong to all people equally, and that taxation should be based on the value of land rather than on income or production.