Some commercial ones did at some point. I’m not sure if they still do.

The question is whether their users care or not I suppose.

It’s Unix if you pay to have it certified (assuming it’s compatible to begin with). That’s basically it.

archive.org is hosted in the US and could end up being a valid target. It doesn’t strike me as being a very good place to securely store anything nowadays. I’d consider anything hosted in the US to be out.

It’s an alpha, so I guess a number of things can still change.

It starts with a full screen window, no window controls… so sorry, it pretty much breaks the expected interface.

Great, it breaks all the interface conventions. How convenient.

Besides, Plasma can look like anything else anyway, so why switch?

If it’s your os drive that dies, nothing important has been lost except for a few minutes of work. You can boot from a variety of media (cd, usb…) for recovery, or drive replacement. Worst case, you’ll have to reinstall a few things in the following days.

It’s also why it’s not a bad idea to separate the various aspects of the system on distinct drives.

The OS is the least important part of your computer.

People won’t be able to use GPUs anyway because they’ll all be reserved for “AI” use and priced accordingly.

It has nothing to do with the US, so presumably, no.

They even made a movie about it!

Up to date and stable. Best of both worlds.

I’ve run OpenSuSE and then Tumbleweed for a while (as in years, now) on a variety of devices (including nVidia) with no real issues. It’s been by far the most solid of the distributions I’ve used since I started using Linux in the '90s.

It’s always been for USeR binaries. It’s the first time I’ve seen this bizarre backronym (40 years of Unix here).

That’s what a ligature is. Combining two characters so they don’t clash.

Did they Google windows error messages?

Commercial software compatibility has always been poor. It’s a classic way of locking users in.

A lot of people (regardless of age) have a very fuzzy idea (if at all) of what a file or a directory is. They wouldn’t know a operating system if it sat on their face.

The only way to get them to use Linux is to switch the system on their computers. And they’ll probably manage just fine(after a bit of initial grumpiness), since most interfaces are pretty much the same anyway.

But they’re never going to change on their own.

They’re in Linux now, it should show the shortcuts they’ll encounter everywhere. Not leftovers from another system.