Thunderbird is independently developed from Mozilla and has been since 2020. It’s driven by the Thunderbird Council which is community elected. Its only link now with Mozilla Foundation is that it’s a financial subsidiary. But as others say, there’s also Betterbird if one still fanatically hates Mozilla.

Betterbird

I’ve also seen Serif saying that they won’t. It was someone else that linked it. I have tried to find the link again but could not and I’m too tired and sick to keep looking. The TL;DR was that they tend to be good at stringing people along but they’ve definitively said its not on their roadmap, won’t be added and supporting Affinity on Linux would be too expensive/difficult.

Canva has little financial reason to invest in Linux users either.

Enshittification also adds to making it incredibly unlikely.

People have been begging Adobe to port to Linux or at least make their products work with WINE for more than a decade now to no avail and Adobe, unlike Serif, has the budget to do so.

Or that people aren’t talking 24 hours a day

Its moot because Affinity have already said they will not, not ever.

My monitor is visible to a public footpath and I honestly am waiting for the day that I get a knock on the door from the cops because Jo Public saw me do a system update

sudo pacman -Syu 💀

This was very similar to the box I had but in my case it was mostly white. And the manual was waaaay bigger. Like almost the size of a phone book. I bought mine in 1999 too. Installed from CD. I bought mine for $110 from a stationary shop (since I lived in a student flat and my flatmates would have probably murdered me if I’d downloaded it over dial up that also had a monthly download limit). Good times lol.

Persistence, willingness to learn or open curiosity, and responsibility.

Persistence because sometimes when learning things, you’ll run into problems and will need persistence yo overcome them.

Willingness to learn or open curiosity because otherwise you’re in a rut and inflexible which makes learning differences between Win/Mac and Linux almost impossible or at least much harder.

Responsibility because you are in charge of your system and your laptop/pc. You need to take responsibility for learning how to do things, solving problems, doing updates, etc.

Sadly, these days people lack most of these qualities. So many people want things handed to them on a silver platter or to have their hands held and told exactly how yo do something instead of working it out for themselves. And people don’t want responsibility - they want someone else to be responsible, someone else to blame and someone else to do the thinking.

A lot of Linux adoption won’t change until there’s also a culture shift :/

I have been an Arch user for a decade. This year I switched to CachyOS to give it a go. Performance (for me at least) has indeed improved but its not a massive jump.

I don’t find it particularly ‘bloated’. There wasn’t much I had to uninstall after installation and the installer gives you the option to deselect packages. List of packages here: https://github.com/CachyOS/cachyos-calamares/blob/cachyos-systemd-qt6/src/modules/netinstall/netinstall.yaml

Its also not as simple as many people claim to switch to CachyOS just by changing repos. CachyOS also has some of its own configs that would also need to be imported. I found it was easier just to install Cachy and remove unwanted packahes than switch repos on my Arch install and fiddle around with a bunch of configs and change some packages and settings.

So far I have found CachyOS a little more buggy than my install of Arch. But not so much that I want to switch back. So far the slight performance increases are keeping it worth it.

If, gods forbid, CachyOS ever stopped being maintained, it will be easy to switch back to vanilla Arch.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arrowlake-cachyos

What would you recommend then?

Default but In use fstab to keep my home folders (Documents, Pictures, Music, Video) on a separate HDD.

Doesn’t mean you have to repeat it 🙂

This is my usecase too. I don’t personally feel any need for an immutable, but for family that regularly jams up their systems, bit makes sense. Unfortunately when I tried Aurora, it just wouldn’t boot no matter what. No idea why. Mint on the other hand just worked. Hopefully Aurora will get developed more and just work also because I would love to use it for family.

Upvoting but please stop using the term “bricking” this way. Bricking is permanent and there is no recovery. You have turned your device into a useless brick.

There’s a book called Gamechanger by L.X. Beckett that explores the idea of a society that is completely open with zero privacy. Your life is always watched and anyone and everyone can see. Pretty much the only thing left private is thoughts. It was an interesting read and my only wish was that the author had explored the negatives and struggles of a fully transparent society more as I feel like this was glossed over too much.

I watch a lot of his videos. But I didn’t watch this one because I loathe and resent clickbait titles. I would imagine a fair number of people chose not to watch and down voted because of the clickbait title alone.

Maybe shouldn’t have used a clickbait title then?

Will it work running in a VM with pass through?

This is kinda what we do. But in our case we use both because personal storage is not cheap in this country and thus our self-hosted storage is limited. All out favourites that we watch repeatedly stays on the home server but we use Stremio and Torbox (because no way we’re going to use RD after theyb doxed customers) for one offs, shows were trying out, etc.