What do you mean? Thunderbird literally IS on Android (F-Droid, Google Store).

Fine, then “more ugly and cumbersome” than it needs to be. I frequently have to hook up laptops to devices that simply don’t have wifi (think unconfigured network devices like routers and the like), so connecting via cable is the only option. Having a gigantic, plastic, snag-prone wart sticking out of my laptop certainly wouldn’t help matters.

And the ugly and cumbersome ethernet expansion card.

Similar story here. I had a laptop running nVidia/Intel dual graphics for a few years and it was so fucking finicky. Primusrun this, optirun that. Ugh. Once upon a time, whenever I heard the word Optimus, I thought of transforming trucks with laser guns. Hearing that same word now puts me in a fetal position.

To any GeForce owners that are considering going Linux full time: do a test run first and see how it works out, because nVidia support on Linux is spotty at best.

I have the Flydigi Vader 4 Pro with the USB dongle. And yes, it’s plug and play.

It’s short for Terms of Service.

Are you talking about archinstall or have they actually automated the default installation method?

Do yourself a favour and install it on a virtual machine first. Screwing up an install on Arch is frighteningly easy. The Arch Wiki is your friend, use it. Also, read the installation instructions before you begin the installation, not during. If this sounds like too much of a headache (understandably so), then give EndeavourOS a whirl.

Yeah, it’s normal. There are so many flavours of Linux out there, why wouldn’t you want to try some of them?

For a second I thought it said “experimental failure”. Would be more accurate, I think.

The founder’s shady history with OpenFeint, their entire privacy policy and shit like this, take your pick. Wikipedia also has an entire section dedicated to Discord’s controversies. No matter how you look at it, Discord has a great many shortcomings.

Tell me about it. Now they’re just Steam Key Reseller #46498.

lol, that is so unnecessary.

Hm, didn’t know about that. By the way, what is the word that is showing up as removed?

I’m sure it’s a very capable email client, but the UI just didn’t mesh well with me.

What’s wrong with Newpipe?

And mine. And probably everyone else’s since the only banking app I can find on F-Droid is something called Varengold.

Check out mister Mainstream over here. The rest of us snooty OS connoisseurs use Collapse OS.

I would say it depends on the user. Some might feel more at home with KDE, because the layout is similar to Windows. Some might be coming from macOS, so they would be more at home with Pantheon. Some might choose GNOME, because…

Anyway, the answer is none of the above, it’s terminal only. Get good or get out. Using graphics is for quitters.

Switched around the time Windows 7 was out. The reason is Windows Update. It took FOREVER to do its thing. And it was janky as all hell. I distinctly remember clicking on the “check for updates” more than once, because it didn’t find any updates the first time dor whatevee reason. Anyway, I had one update breakage too many and I snapped. Had Linux as my main OS since then and a few years later it became my only OS.

Basically, I wanted an OS that stayed out of my face and Windows wasn’t it.