Mint is based on Ubuntu, so you could try Ubuntu itself without the Mint stuff bolted on.
Ubuntu asks you what you want pre-installed when you’re setting it up.
And since Ubuntu has all the same flavours that mint does (and more), it’ll look like what you expect it to. Modern Mint uses Cinnamon whereas old Mint uses Mate, so just choose the one you’re already familiar with.
You were literally responded by suggesting they use their laptop’s HID, then suggested a wired mouse which they said they didn’t have, then suggested using the console which the install process doesn’t advertise as a possibility to the user.
Poor UX is a bug, it needs to be updated.
That’s an obviously poor take. If only laptop users could get past the screen then it’s still broken.
What stopped the install process working without a mouse?
Surely they’d have a keyboard navigation method.
Eh, it’s the same on the Android side of the fence. There are big and small features that Google has been comically slow to crib from iOS.
I’ve definitely said “fucking finally” to things like overflow scrolling animations,
Those things like overflow scrolling, keyboard peak, etc… were only held back because Apple would patent it prevent it from being put into Android and would file frivolous lawsuits against other phone manufacturers to try and get them not to use them, even when some android variants already had it built in before apple patented it in the first place. (I still facepalm at apple trying to sue others over a rounded rectangle shaped phone)
And those patents lawsuits only stopped because other phone companies called bullshit and started threatening apple with their own patents.
and the “wild” idea that users should get 5+ of major OS releases.
TL;DR on this point: not much of an issue anymore.
This isn’t an android/iOS thing, it’s a manufacturer thing. If a chip isn’t supported by it’s manufacturer, then no software on it can be supported. Different manufacturers had different support windows, but Qualcomm became notorious for making chips, then only supporting them for 2 years so they could sell a new “supported” one (and watch the money roll in). Once they saw other the larger players getting pissed off and poking around with the idea of making their own chips, Qualcomm quickly decided that they could support their chips for longer. Now they have to since both Google and Samsung have made public promises for 5-7 year support cycles. Of course, that hasn’t stopped other phones from already reaching 7 years of official support before. (A notable example being Fairphone 2 who used a Qualcomm chip while they were still in their shitty behaviour phase and managed to support it for 7 years, 2 years Qualcomm support then 5 years of their own support despite Qualcomm.)
Also, when Google was pissed at Qualcomm they decided to start modularising their OS and pulling chunks out of it out of needing direct hardware support. This means that even if chip support were to stop, it would only affect the background / lowest-level-invisible-to-the-user parts of the OS, and all the user visible parts of the OS could be updated independently (starting with Project Treble, and going all out with Project Mainline). This basically means that entire chunks of the OS can be updated the same way an app can be, early 2010 Qualcomm companies be damned.
This also has the weird thing of android not really being a “version” per se, one phone might have different components of Android 10/11/12/13/14/etc… running at the same time. The components themselves have their own versions.
I have yet to be given an example of something a “general” intelligence would be able to do that an LLM can’t do.
Presenting…
Something a general intelligence can do that an LLM can’t do:
Play chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvTs_nbc8Eg
Why can’t it play it? Because LLM’s don’t have memory, so they can’t work with logic. They are the same as the little “next word predictor” in your phone’s keyboard. It just says what it thinks is the most probable next word based on previous words, it’s not actually thinking or understanding anything. So instead, we get moves that don’t make sense or are completely invalid.
Did you purge and update your filters?
Note: I’m not talking about turning filters off then back on, I’m talking about updating the version of each filter itself.
Also, you can buy Tic Tacs from any newsagent or gas station.
What about OkLCH?
I can’t see your comment about heavy dev and testing.
I’m curious about what exactly is chewing up that much RAM. Do you have a ridiculous amount of containers running? Or a big ram disk or something?
What are you doing that makes having 64gb ram useful?
It wasn’t the profits or ads that got in the way.
It was the security that got in the way. (remember the whole TPM module thing?)
Iterating the version number was just a convenient excuse to throw more ads, and tracking in.
No competitor?
What about VRChat?
Yes it has a tenth the users, but it’s also designed around an expensive peripheral you strap to your face which prices out a lot of users.
Bird’s don’t eat worms, they charge off secret buried worm-textured USB cables.
Ubuntu is great.
The company that supports it (Canonical) usually makes an annoying decision that goes against the community’s preferences every 3 years or so, but they always eventually rescind it.
The last decade of annoying decisions is changing which desktop environment is considered “default”, and a bunch of developers time wasted on an ubuntu for phones which never released.
Their current “annoying decision” is pushing Snaps which are just a way to package apps. They’re okayish, but they run apps slower than the other standards (Flatpak, Appimage, or just installing through a package manager) and Canonical is in charge of the place where Snaps are downloaded.
Most people just download Ubuntu, uninstall Snaps then install what they want.
So yeah, ubuntu is great, the company that supports them usually puts one annoying thing in at a time every few years that the community turns off and ignores.