I recommend FOSS alternatives to Adobe’s garbage. GIMP for a photoshop alternative. Krita for digital art. Inkscape for an Illustrator alternative. Ruffle for the Flash Player Standalone Client. So on and so forth.

Mint is based on Ubuntu.

Use Debian if you want a system like Ubuntu that isn’t full of Canonical’s corporate shit. Ubuntu is based on Debian.

No, we absolutely deserve it because privacy is a fundamental right.

What is this modern bullshit?

There are some decent ones out there. That Windows shortcut always sucked ass compared to their character map, and that wasn’t great either.

ClamAV. And having it built-in is called bloatware.

Indeed! The biggest requirements for a monitor in my book are that it does not shut off without input, and that it actually turns on when I press the power button or switch. After that (as importance goes), I prefer IPC screens. I don’t use OLEDs because of burn-in.

Bullshit. I program for much longer periods.

Good. Anyone foolish enough to write code with a slop machine produces only slop. That garbage should’ve been deleted anyway.

That’s entirely ignoring the fact that this person didn’t have any backups elsewhere.

If you can’t think, you can’t code.

Brilliant.

cutting edge 🙄

It uses AI? Right, then I’m boycotting it ad infinitum.

This reminds me of INTERCAL.