EliteGadget

Their ports to older non-x86 stuff does work well but I can't justify using it as a desktop OS. Too many compromises you have to make without a lot of benefit IME.

I find with the BSDs is that it is difficult to look up how to do something quick via a web search. Yes that is a man page that will tell you how to use whatever, but knowing where you are supposed to look to solve "why doesn't two button scroll work" isn't immediately obvious.

I was mucking around with FreeBSD on my old laptop and it works well and it isn't too bad to get stuff going if you are following the handbook, there is still that "how do I get <thing> working". I think the OS is good underneath, but I kinda want two finger scrolling to kinda work when I install cinnamon and X.

Debian is at the stage now of install, you have desktop and most stuff just works at least on a x86-64 system. If I want to install anything, it is download deb / flatpak and I am done.

They just aren't very good motorcycles. You can get almost any other motorcycle and they will be better to ride, more reliable and probably cost a lot less.

Harley Davidson also didn't modernise its brand. Also a lot of the image of Harley Davidson is attached to the heyday of motorcycle gangs, old movies between the 50s-80s e.g. "Easy Rider", "Electra Glide in Blue" and Music from that era.

Ram is a commodity they have spikes in demand/shortage of supply which drive the price up like this.

I remember when there was a flood somewhere in Thailand in the 2011 and the prices of hardisks went up through the roof.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2011/10/17/thailand...

It appears they have different requirements for those machines. They state the Ubuntu machines are for non-firewall applications. Ubuntu and Debian can configured relatively easily for a number of workstation and server roles.

Also many IT professionals that have used Linux will be familiar with a Debian or a Debian derivative such as Ubuntu. That simply isn't the case with OpenBSD.

I recently installed OpenBSD on my old laptop to try it out and I found it difficult even though I used to use it at University back in the late 2000s.

I see Musk in the the same way that I see Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was famous for his "reality distortion field".

I think that Musk/Tesla gave Politicians the idea that everyone can go electric and as a result it ended up being mandated into law. Then manufacturers had to try to make cars which were electric.