While I agree with the sentiment that some Linux distros are used friendly, what you’re describing isn’t a good example of that. Not everyone has a technical spouse who can be their sysadmin.

The ideal is that a non technical person maybe stumbles a little trying to install it. Then, they can use it with the same amount (or less) of struggle they might have with windows.

Depends on how practical that is for them. :/

Be careful what you wish for. Some might consider “more users” to mean a huge influx of assholes and normies.

Or maybe more friends idk.

Ok being real dude, I don’t think this behavior is a product of “mostly-christian (anti)intellectual tradition,” it’s just the type of people who never grew out of the color-in-the-lines and follow-your-line-buddy stuff from grade school. I don’t think there’s any spectacular political statement to be made here.

Huh. I never noticed any performance issues on the switch 1. Maybe it’s because I had the newer OLED one?

I am using Jerboa right now and I installed just a couple days ago. Must’ve been silently fixed.

As much as I feel that Reddit was pretty underhanded, I doubt that they’re using AI to fake content to keep people on the site 'cause (a) people would catch on pretty fast by looking at the history of the account and (b) running LLMs probably cost more than the earned advertising revenue.

What’s more likely is that people/bots have always been reposting for karma a while

That’s pretty cool! I had no idea about those structural voids