When I saw ads in the Windows Start menu, I switched to Ubuntu. Haven't looked back and life is good. Except that the command line command apt-get sometimes displays an ad for Ubuntu Pro...
And Debian recently decided to allow non-free firmware in their official installation images, so the latest hardware should also be supported.
sudo truncate -s 0 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20apt-esm-hook.confGack! Why not?
If the computer is supposed to be a "bicycle for the mind", then shouldn't it be designed to enhance our thinking, and also to force us to "think differently"?
You have to learn how to ride a bike. It involves some scraped knees.
Do you want to place it smack dab in your living room? Or leave it in the garage, out of plain sight, and access it only when needed?
Tools like the command line and exercise equipment help improve capability and personal agency. Hiding either away pushes the default toward passive consumption.
I'd love for a company like System76 to come out with such a solution, but it is certainly an expensive, difficult endeavour.
The default shell and utter lack of well designed autocomplete or hints is a like a bad trip back to tape machines, punch codes and weird idiosyncracies from a bygone PDP11 era.
It's absolute piss and nobody should be dealing with it unless they want to for whatever reason.
1. It spits out mountains of cryptic gibberish when you use it.
2. It literally contains "Advanced" in it's textbook nondescript three letter abbreviation.
3. Without a fairly intimate understanding of it's hairy inner workings on how exactly dependency and package conflicts are resolved, it will fuck things up and fuck things up quite royaly. Matter of time really.
Case in point:
Linus from LTT removing DE when installing Steam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3HAS257Kk)
4. In fact, I'd go a step further and say that it WILL fuck things up even if you do understand that whole house of cards, but you will atleast know how to duct tape your way out of it.
Again reminder: How exactly does this enchance "our thinking" in any shape or form exactly?