After years of distro hopping, I had one to many updates which borked some driver & realized what I’m really looking for is my laptop should be boring stable appliance. Incredibly happy with it so far.

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    What else can you even do with a computer besides managing files and running programs?

    That said (with tongue in cheek), I went from Ubuntu to Mint and can’t see myself starting all over again. I’m not savvy, I don’t terminal or at least I never have. I’m just a musician that also plays awkwardly with Blender. An absolute computer casual. But Debian does sound lovely.

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      What else can you even do with a computer besides managing files and running programs?

      Arch users: Update OS!
      Gentoo users: Compile OS!
      *BSD users: Trying to make the OS work!
      Windows: reboot and reinstall!
      Android: Watch advertisements!
      DOS: hm… Well. Yes.

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        Which advertisements? (Genuinely curious, using Graphene OS and won’t switch back, when I still used normal Android there weren’t any ads yet)

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          Not in the OS per se, but the only purpose of 97% of Android software is to show you as many ads as possible.

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            Interesting, apart from YouTube I have never used extra software that shows ads. Luckily projects like NewPipe exist for that, so the only place where I currently can’t avoid all ads is in the browser on my tablet (its an iPad so the browser sadly doesnt support ad blockers).