I’m getting ready to make some home made bacon. It will take me the whole week to go from raw meat to the smokey deliciousness that is bacon.

Worth it…

I don’t and I do. Cinnamon is a better Gnome experience now.

Ordinary people know what Linux is, they just don’t care about. So the effect is the pretty much the same, but for different reasons.

Have you taken a look at Aurora yet? It asks if you have an nVidia chipset and will automatically build an iso for you to install. It wasn’t the distro I wanted, but it was a smooth install and ran well.

That’s mostly because the cost of a TV was far greater than it is today. So it took a lot more money to buy a larger TV. TVs today are dirt cheap compared to 50 years ago.

That’s a valid way too. It’s just that a lot of people aren’t really ready to dive in with both feet from the start. No matter how easy Linux has become or we might think its is. Change is scary and hard. And I think that’s a problem that holds back many people yet today.

That possible for sure. But I don’t see dual booting being as common as it once was. Owning an old spare computer is pretty common these days. Heck, you can even get a dirt cheap mini desktop off of amazon and a referb/used/spare monitor and have a completely fine old time messing around with different distros without a care in the world. And that’s a far easier entry into Linux than dual booting anymore.

It’s good to see people making a switch to Linux. But the real tell will be in finding out how many of those people actually stick long term.

Anybody else here play Oregon Trail on a teletype terminal? The school had 2 terminals in a small basement room that a few of us nerds could get access to for and hour or two a week, We would try to learn Basic, (with no one to teach us), and play Oregon Trail and get yelled at for going through some much thermal paper…

Me too. As a toolmaker and engineer, space mice were a thing. But they were stupidly expensive and still are. I was unwilling to spend the money for one. So I use a ball mouse and I still do for when I need to do serious CAD work these days-- designing my next model steam engine.

It would appear that major distros like RedHat/Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc are not overly concerned at this point. I would suspect that if they truely feared this happening, they would be moving very quickly to create patches or work arounds for this problem.