mothzilla

The dark age... of technology. And we're nowhere close to a functional STC

I get you think the word is too heavy but remember: it's a small business and bad press is a serious thing. It could be enough to shut down the place. Just see how afraid local shop owners are of Yelp. You get review bombed there and you have a serious problem. You don't know if these artists won't just unload their (just) frustration at AI on the business exactly like that. By judging the tone "change or I'll tell the artists", it's very likely the person would try to incite them instead of just "telling" them.

Exactly. Pure cancel culture. Just be humble to understand the world might not agree with your views and let it be. Less "this can't exist" and more of "this is not for me".

The dance trying different distros and DEs is fun (and important) for a while. Eventually you learn to fix the problems yourself exactly to avoid having to reinstall. Eventuakky distro lines get blurred as it's the same software under it and jumping between them more easily. Once you find a distro with the right mix for your tastes you stick to it. My main server has some files as old as 1999, migrated hardware, filesystems, even migrated from 32bit to 64bit without having to reinstall. But I've spent 3 years doing the same dance before it.

It might be that OP never wanted to actually do the next step, which is OK. Hopefully MacOS works for them and they can keep affording their machines.

Yes, because illegals can pay the insane ticket prices