Desktop Environments (DE), or the Graphical User Interface (GUI) you use with it. Essentially you can choose the graphics set and layout of your computer. The underlying functionality of your computer doesn’t change too much, but how things get displayed does. Ubuntu by default uses GNOME. but you can install Kubuntu instead of or alongside it and use the KDE environment. I used to have both installed and just chose which one I wanted to use at the login screen. Eventually I moved to the i3 environment as well and would switch to that sometimes because it could be fun to play with. If you’re new to this and use Ubuntu I’d just start with that (GNOME) and then you can branch out from there when you feel ready. KDE runs a bit more efficiently but looks a bit simpler, last I used it.

How generous of them

but instead you had to showcase your ignorance, or alternatively you deliberately tried to inflame a controversy out of nothing.

Yes VOA, which is what is linked to, does say the source is Reuters, which I’m sure we’ve both noticed is not the WSJ that Reuters refers to in the article, which would be the primary source of this information ostensibly.

Well you know the old saying: “If you can’t trust VOA, America’s official propaganda arm, then who can you trust?”

Frankly at this point getting that wrong is a better indication of being a human than getting it right.

Not averse to the idea, but why so? What’s the advantage?

Yeah outside of Java I’m wondering if I might have to start learning some OpenGL/Vulkan stuff for graphics.