Kirk

You: "Now listen child, and heed my tale of woe..."

Them: "drop it one banana"

Yeah the best option is the old PC you already have. Unless you're transcoding video or into LLMs it will be more than enough.

Yes the way I see it, is if someone is spending $60/month on 3-5 creators that's still more money going to "the arts" than if the same person spent double that on streaming services.

Thank you I was actually so confused lmao I'm like, are they distributing this ET reel in pieces?

I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I'm really glad I did that now

Yeah this is it. I like snaps just fine but I also like Flatpaks and well, everyone else is using Flatpaks.

Hah! I definitely didn't mean any shade at Zorin! I used it for a while too. I ultimately moved to Fedora Kinoite and now Bazzite for the exact reasons you described, the immutability makes it even harder to break than Zorin.

It's great we have so many good options these days.

On one hand I think that Linux would benefit from KDE being better than windows and GNOME being better than MacOS and that we shouldn't get distracted by new shiny toys like Cinnamon and Cosmic.

...and yet on the other hand... they are pretty cool...

Thrift stores often have old laptops for cheap

There are nice friendly frontends for this, Yunohost or CasaOS spring to mind but might be too simplistic if you already are familiar with Docker.