Depending on the vendor providing that trackpad driver it may not be a substantial security risk. But it is a loss of software freedom, which some people care about.
kbal
Rule 1: Crushing people with tanks is fine so long as it's our side doing it.
Literal fucking tankies. I wonder if they will ever come to their senses. Oh well, it's not as if there aren't Nazi instances somewhere on fedi as well.
Yeah Debian meets all those requirements except that I don't know about sane.
There's no need to go back to paper maps if it's just GPS and mobile Internet that are unavailable. Osmand works just fine without them. It's the map application I always wanted, none of that always-online nonsense.
Hmm. Maybe if I live long enough, my only slightly rusty skills in map reading and navigation by dead reckoning will once again be useful.
I wish people could stop trying to teach everyone that Big Ben isn't the name of the clock. Nobody cares.
I wish people would stop trying to explain the difference between "to" and "too", it really doesn't matter.
Nock it off, people. If misconceptions are common, that means they're right.
I suspect that the list of widely-used but deprecated stuff they've decided to remove from GTK, to the great annoyance of so many people, is somewhat longer than is hinted at there.
You'll probably want to use Proton. Being based on Wine, it's not an emulator. It's a native Linux implementation of various Windows APIs. One way to do it is Lutris.
True, Linux isn't free because it uses electricity. It's free because it's licensed under the GNU General Public License which is designed to defend the freedom of its users.
only free as in beer
In other words not free.
Increasingly it does look like Europe really is going dark.