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So you don’t care but also simultaneously nothing is more important. Ok.

And yet you cared enough to weigh in.

If they used “installing software” no one would know WTF they were talking about.

Thank you, we should probably have a community for this.

It’s nonsense. These people expect you to say “installing apps from outside the first-party app store” every time you refer to sideloading and suggest that somehow the word has a negative connotation and was made up by corpos to keep you in their silos, even though the word predates the concept altogether.

I quit Spotify and started using internet radio. Once a month, instead of giving $20 to a corporate overlord, I donate it to my favorite indy radio station playing fresh songs. Not the same pop BS over and over. Unique music from talented local artists around the world.

It does take a bit more time and experimentation to find some great stations.

I dunno what that means. I gave what I felt like a very simple take and this person started to argue with me, not the other way around.

You did say simple…

If it has a apt package, it’s as easy as “sudo apt install xyz”

This is the kind of ignorant shit that relegates Linux to nerd circles. What do you do with this information? What is xyz, and exactly xyz because if you get a single letter wrong it does not work. Further the user has to already know what they want, which a new user will not.

Apart from Steam not being a standard installed item, it is very feature full.

I’ve just given you several examples of how it’s not.

For 32 bit you also need to enable multi-arch.

Just making my point for me now.

You wrote it was mostly for servers

No I wrote that’s it’s more commonly used in servers.

I don’t think you really understand the implications.

I don’t think you do.

Debian is probably Thee most supported distro with the most packages available.

I’m not talking about availability. I’m talking about comes pre-installed so the user doesn’t have to go out and find them to use basic functionality.

Debian is also among the absolute best among Linux desktop options, and actually quite popular.

I did not say it was not great or popular.

There’s a reason Debian is still the most forked distro.

This is not the dunk you think it is…

no fractional scaling? thats a DE/WM feature not distro related

Lots of distros these days come out of the box with that pre-configured, so no, it’s not.

only includes default apps? you mean following the DE’s developer’s vision?

Yes.

Older drivers won’t support newer hardware. Only includes default apps from gnome and KDE. No DE tweaks to speak of. No performance optimizations. No Gear Lever. No fractional scaling implemented, etc. etc.

Debian is more like AOSP. It’s a starting point. Super bare. More commonly used in servers and such.

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Interesting, I’ve never seen or heard of that before…

I have a e14 Thinkpad…with 8gb soldered ram

so I put a 16gb stick in

What?