Maybe he knew none of the information could harm him if someone got hold of it?

Fair point

Or saying the correct pronoun in a patronising way.

Well no because some people early in their transition cycle might have their gender confused by someone who doesn’t know, whereas no one can accidentally go “oh shit sorry I didn’t know you were black?”.

As long as the person is polite and apologetic without being patronising I think it’s okay.

Yeah I mean you’re still people with emotional processes who understand social queues. Not like you’re robots who can’t process these things.

That’s a pretty good idea actually

Nah desktop mothership, server star command and laptop UFO.

I feel like UFO would make more sense for laptop due to it being portable, but I get it is because the desktop is Alienware

Windows: Ad Ridden

macOS: Not Enough Freedom Apparently

Linux: Community Arguments

Every OS has issues.

I’ve not really used it except for the SLS because it’s streamed exclusively there. No major issues except one time long videos (sls streams can last 6 hours) would take a lifetime to load.

If they switched over to this method instead of the current I would argue an adblocker wouldn’t even improve the experience, the problem is that it interrupts my actual content in the middle of the video.

Perhaps rather than saying it’s stupid, you can just say “it’s not for me” as I stated I’ve been a long term Linux user, installing everything from Arch to Void, I even did a brief stint using LFS, I enjoy Linux however I prefer macOS, but I don’t go around saying I hate Linux because I don’t there is nothing wrong with it, i just prefer the way macOS works and that is a preference.

Likely macOS is just not the correct choice for you.

Use Opencore. Apple stopping support for older devices makes logical sense, technology progresses, maintaining legacy devices can become tedious and leaves the team with less time to focus on their current devices and versions.

Opencore allows you to update to the latest version of macOS even if not supported. However be aware that it isn’t Apple certified but an open source project so your mileage may vary.

For your final point the Mac’s I have used have been incredibly capable machines that I’ve been able to configure endlessly and run a large variety of languages and tools without many issues. They have sane defaults, are configurable, powerful and they run smoothly.

As a Linux user who moved to Mac, it’s not even remotely dumb.

Yeah I feel like that just defeats the purpose of it though, in that case just install Debian.

Yeah I am interested in Cosmic DE.

I liked the feel of Pop_OS!, the setup and configuration are great, but damned it was unappealing looks wise for me.

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Mint is just green Ubuntu.

I recommend not using the installer if you want to learn how Linux works well.

I think Arch is a good distro to learn for new users who are interested in tech, it gives an amazing example of good documentation and teaches you a lot about how UNIX-Like filesystems work.

That being said for non-technical users with zero interest, my main recommendations are Mint if you are coming from or prefer Windows and Elementary if you’re coming from or prefer Mac.