This depends on the goal. Sure, installing Linux in a VM is easy and will always work. Also working within a VM is usually just fine. However you still have to keep Windows underneath with all it’s problems like end of 10.

Take any distro you fancy, Mint is a good start. Create a bootable USB stick an try it out. This is does not modify anything on your computer, just loads linux and let’s you test it. I usually play a youtube video. This shows that wifi, video and sound work out of the box.

No. That’s the point. LibreOffice does not send your data to Microsoft.

LibreOffice is what Microsoft Office WAS without the bugs. If Word and Excel worked for you before the cloud, Libre is golden.

Thanks. That’s a better explanation than just mentioning that there is character with this name in some musical or movie.

Ok. I’m stupid. Who wants to explain the joke?

Sounds like it’s fully compatible query devices running older version. Great.

b) is a recent(*) change. GitHub was independent when it became big

a) GitHub was never open-source, but by combing git and great UI/UX, it was a good choice.

Git is open-source and the distributed nature of git reduces the vendor-lock-in. You need to understand where we came from (svn or git to some ssh server). Coming from self-hosted git, embracing github did not take away your power over your own source code; you still had a copy of all branches on multiple machines. The world is different now, where github has become a single-point of failure.

(*) Update: Okay, maybe 2018 was not recently, but my point stands. GitHub existed long before the Microsoft purchase.

A gold bar gifted to an institution would still count as corruption in most sane jurisdictions. Sure those loopholes exist, but we tend to disguise them as investments or charity.

Wait for the price tag on the upcoming golden monitor stand.

I have enabled this on my private machine, because it’s free and it was asking so nicely.

I don’t have the same patches on servers at work.

brain full of lead and microplastic

Gates could probably walk into most offices and get a free coffee and an impromptu meeting with the CEO if he wants to.

Preview is one of the things mac os got right. it’s hard to copy. If you think about it, it does not make sense that a tool called preview that most people use to quickly read pdf (and other) files, is also a lightweight pdf editor, which is often more useful than acrobat or pdfedit or whatever you use.

It’s not logical. no one will make a clone of it.

you’ll have to get used to other tools.

Imagine applying to work on the youtube team because you enjoy watching videos and then you are expected to make it worse for everyone including yourself.

yes, i meant x86

Actually, most devices today run an amd64 kernel (amd or intel cpus in typical desktops or servers) or arm (phones, some modern notebooks). Those architectures never supported 486 cpus.

I assume, the code removed is in the x86 branch, excluded when compiling for other architectures. As others said, I guess this is mostly about maintainance effort and testing.

(But then i don’t know much about the kernels. Maybe there’s some interplay between amd64 and x64 x86 architectures.)

i can see myself at the event, but not in Vegas.

It’s this or Google or Microsoft if you want something PowerPoint-like.

Many recommend to ‘pick a javascript framework’, which just like LaTeX Beamer sounds good if you do your own thing, but not ideal if people expect PowerPoint. Building slides through code is fundamentally different from drag-on-dropping images.

Pick Google or Microsoft or OnlyOffice and use their web version. This keeps your laptop free of non-free software while using the same tools everyone else has.

Pancake traditionally contains egg. Actually, eggs are the main ingredient.

15€. I was shocked when it went above 10.