Map projection based on an icosahedron globe is a new one.

Eh. Asia is only 3.1 times larger than Antarctica, both Europe and Oceania/Australia are even smaller and South America isn’t that much larger. It’s a different matter if we compare it to Eurasia and America (north+south), though.

Well, you do you. My Debian Testing install was my only bare metal install that ever broke because of an update (not to say that Arch etc. would have been any better, I just haven’t been using rolling release distros since then).

That kinda requires intention and effort, you wouldn’t be doing it because the process is so enjoyable. I definitely remember syrup medicine being really tasty when I was a kid.

Lots of pill-shaped medicine already does. You’re supposed to swallow them immediately, if you don’t you often find that they are mixed with bittering agents (or just naturally taste bitter).

Where I live, cough syrup that might actually be dangerous (e.g. the purple drank stuff) is already prescription-only or fully illegal, anyway.

Interesting. It seems your mileage truly varies when it comes to distro stability.

I think Cinnamon might even be one of the first desktops other than the big two that is going to be finished (more or less) with Wayland support.

Personally, I have been using window managers for years. You’d think that would make the transition easier (sway is even explicitly designed as a drop-in replaced for i3wm), but you need to configure so many of the tools around it (task/statusbar, screensaver/lockscreen, clipboard manager …) and I just couldn’t be bothered. I’m definitely past that “tinker with all the things”-stage of being a Linux user …

Cinnamon can be installed on most mainstream distros, actually. I definitely agree that it looks better than Plasma.

based.

As soon as I realized distro upgrades are a minefield every time on a desktop

How did you realize that? Hasn’t been my experience on Debian and Ubuntu at all, they always just worked for me, and that’s despite running a bunch of PPAs for GPU stuff on my Ubuntu install.

I don’t have any experience with immutable distros, are they harder/impossible to tweak, or just easier?

Debian Testing kinda sucks, it’s like the worst of both worlds of Debian and Arch; updates for some packages can be held back for months because of some blocker, while stable at least gets fastracked to important fixes for security or system stability, and Sid just naturally gets them faster because it’s more up to date. Sid is probably better overall, but why use an unstable rolling release without all the convenience that Arch’s tools offer? AFAIK pacman is really nice for stuff like making your own packages. Plus it has a much larger user base than Debian Sid, which helps when you’re looking for a fix for recent issues.

Bazzite is already pictured, and OP already complains that it’s too boring!

What’s the one on the left?

Either way, boring is good.

Seems like the precondition to making it highly-publicised is that popular media actually wants to shine a light on this and isn’t prevented from it by those who buy their ads, sponsored articles etc.

It’s a bit of a catch22; to make the world better, the world already needs to be better. The media who would publicise this are probably already bringing stories about the evils of environmental destruction all the time, and they’re consumed by people who already know that environmental destruction is bad and want it to stop, but there’s only so much a minority can accomplish when big business can just pay off the people who could decide to really do something about it.

Sounds like your issue was more the desktop environment than the distro itself. Did you ever try to install Plasma in it? Back when I used Mint, I actually used i3-wm for a while.

What were the limitations you encountered?

True that, it’s more relevant to commandline applications and whatever has a page in the Arch wiki (which is a great resource regardless of distro). Ubuntu itself does have extensive manuals, which are mostly still useful for Mint when they’re not specifically about Ubuntu’s default desktop environment.

You, too, can become a 1337 h4xx0r with this one (1) simple trick: Read the manual!

Which is both definitely correct, but also profoundly unhelpful for newbies. But seriously, there is so much documentation, blog articles, video tutorials etc. for Linux, if you put in some effort everyone can go from newbie to hacker/programmer/gentoo user.