I'm probably moving to WSL from a ubuntu laptop. In my opinion the Linux desktop/laptop experience is actually getting worse.
If you work in a corporate environment and WSL isn't available, but they do have Docker Desktop then you can use the Devcontainer stuff. Which is still nicer than nothing: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers
Totally right. I think I've complained about the open source attitude to hardware acceleration of like... anything, in here. But my camera's been out a year and no foss tools have support for its raw files yet, and all the tickets for it are 'well maybe someday kinda'.
This is because of the transition to Wayland. All the effort that would be used to polish stuff for X is now being spent on moving towards Wayland and there is always gaps and fuckups derived from this. The transition to systemd and pulseaudio were full of disaster as people tried moving systems in place to the new software and there was insane amounts of loose ends, particularly since pulseaudio wasn't stable by the time distro started moving. Wayland has been something of a disaster in terms of adoption and development, its been around a decade and the first good looking project that wasn't a 1:1 clone of an X project like sway has only come out recently, hyprland. Hyprland's dev has stated that he brings issues up with the wayland developers all the time or submits pull requests where they languish for months, so he has been forced to just make hyprland exclusive Wayland extensions just to get the thing to do basic work. Given enough time this will fracture the community into multiple competing standards.
I have to agree they did a good job with that. I more or less quit using Cygwin since that came out, which is a buggy barely semi-compatible pile of shit in comparison.
I loved these and the original MacBook is the only computer I ever bought brand new. It kept working for well over 10 years of taking it everywhere and beating the hell out of it. Too bad MacOS is now more infested with Mac fuckery and control freakery than ever before. At least Steve Jobs' spergy decisions generally made some sense and it's now like they're just deliberately fucking with you for no goddamn reason at all.
Not that hard to do in all honesty. The tools are there (SELinux and less autismal options like AppArmor), but profiles and testing for commonly used programs is non-existent.
That’s the really sad part. Isolation of GUI apps is finally within reach, but the community decided to embrace Flatpak instead of writing simple policies to govern common desktop apps.
The NSA has been found to push broken encryption systems where they have backdoor encryption keys to anything encryption that way, as it's not really a surprise that few people trust anything they support.
"no no no we promise... THIS TIME we won't add a backdoor into your encryption scheme please just take us back....."
Linux Mint and Kubuntu are excellent entrypoints into the Linux ecosystem. If you're feeling adventurous and seek deeper knowledge, try out Arch or EndeavourOS. The Arch wiki is so useful, even for other distros.
I don't think your choice of OS matters if you're a citizen of the Bongistani Caliphate. That digression aside, you can separate Linux distros into three broad categories: Get Excited For New Product (Fedora, Arch derivatives with an easy installer), Autistic Obsession (Arch, Void, Gentoo et al.) and Better OS Simulators (Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.)
