Man, why do people hate apt so much? Maybe because I'm a filthy casual but I never really had any big problems with apt.

Yikes, I forgot about the All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop!

It lands on a server

Time to go to Linux Mint

Install openKylin now

Arch is the best.

You represent the meme so well. Eventually checking Arch news for a manual intervention, using pacman properly, and making sure your system is properly maintained on a regular basis can be a bit of a hassle, which is why sooner or later you'll choose something like KDE Neon or Mint or something similar.

What does that config do? Sorry I'm a new Linux user.

To be honest, I think most people should start with Linux Mint. So good. I don't even have to think much after installing.

For me it's Flatpaks at the moment. Adhering to FOSS means that I try to avoid Snap. AppImages are pretty good, since it's just an executable (and I think there's an AppImage updater as well?), but Flatpak is preferred for me since I like the idea of having containerised systems because it's easily manageable under this sort of central manager, i.e. Flatpak. I typically just install everything using Flatpak and update through that.

Ah, so you use the EMACS operating system as well?

Ahh I forgot Linux Mint! Should have put it in there or maybe Pop!_OS. Debian is fantastic for servers of course.

I'm not sure how it works in the US but where I'm from, the way lessons are conducted are typically like this:

1. Professors hand out lecture notes, typically in the PDF format. So, students will either print or just use their phones/laptops to follow along the lectures. It's either this way, OR
2. Professors will list out recommended readings for this course, and it's up to you how you obtain the source material. Most people will probably just download the PDFs and take down notes during lectures.
3. We were never required to buy any books.

So I'm personally unfamiliar with the "shilling" of textbooks which cost up to hundreds of dollars for practically the same content, which, from what I've heard, is quite common in US colleges. This seems to be a very strange concept to me.

I think that TempleOS belongs to the furthest right of the bell curve. Needs hyper brain to run, understand and appreciate.

This is the final form of the Linux user. Returning to a popular stable distro.

Of course, without an operating system, all you have is hardware and other devices. But I meant for the casual desktop user, this does not really matter for them I don't think. I'm sorry, I forgot to put it in the question. Obviously operating systems must exist, I get that, but I mean that for a desktop user, who treats their computers as bootloaders to the browser, so to speak, will different operating systems be relevant for them, i.e. the majority of users?

I've only used Manjaro a little bit but isn't it the case the Manjaro holds back updates before rolling them out, thereby messing with stuff if you use the AUR?

Piracy is so widespread in public universities here that nobody thinks about it as being wrong.

That's interesting to me. So it has spread towards the public institution level, where many or most people think it's just normal.

It’s literally the reason a lot of us in south America can scape poverty.

Probably one of the biggest examples of justified piracy. I'm not sure if it's fully justifiable, but it is really hard to deny its benefits. One thing though, piracy as a means may be justified, but I'm unsure if it's for the ends.

Out of curiosity, what is your field of work?

A science student. I view "non-technical" and "non-tech/non-techy" as kinda different, as in the latter are more specific to stuff related to computers, at least that's my perception. I'm non-tech or non-techy.

I mean I prefer Pacman too, but yeah, maybe because I don't use Ubuntu / Debian that much so I can't really say.