I used to have bunch of key maps, now it’s just: tap it to pull up the start menu and type software I want to open, and meta + space to change language input on my keyboard.

I guess pretty much it.

There are many music players, none of them is extremely good. I like Sayonara.

I remember using mint at some point. That was indeed a long time ago. Didn’t know about the problems.

Not really sure why you want to switch from mint. Mint is a nice distribution to test out Linux because it comes with many things readily installed and with decent defaults. Since you’re worried about compatibility with several peripherals I’d stick with that.

If you want to switch to something else to learn something new, then pretty much any other distribution is fine. Given enough customisation every distribution is just the same as any other. The only real difference is the repository updates schedule.

I imagine if this ever becomes a problem, they can just set th and the thorn to the same token in the LLM and it will then make no difference at all which is which.

If this ever becomes a problem in training the solution is extremely easy.

Yes, the keyring is a pain, also because I like to manually check all the keys. But then what often happens is that lots of configuration options have changed and you have to go through bunch of software to find out which exact package is now misconfigured and makes your system not work as it should.

Would not advise Debian to a new user. Old packages and difficulties installing non free software may frustrate people.

I did use Debian as my daily driver and I have it in a few servers, it is a very good system. But to the common user stability is not the priority which should prevail over everything else.

Ah, shops where I go are not even able to tell whether the beer I’m drinking while shopping is mine or I stole from the shop. Though, they do annoy me when they say I should have left it outside. They do annoy me a lot.

Much easier than that: just wait for a while and there won’t be no tower anymore.

Either it falls down on its own or people come around to pick a few bricks and stones to build their own house.

Very good explanation.

Why do you use that letter rather than th?

One time I did not update an arch system for something like 6 months… You can’t immagine the troubles I needed to go through to get it into a working state.

I used arch extensively. I still have it in a laptop I switch on from time to time. I stopped running it mostly because it is rolling release. I didn’t get many problems, but sometimes you do and sometimes you have to spend an hour figuring out what the problem is and how to fix it. I don’t want to wake up in the morning with an important video call set up and be unable to participate because the pipe wire config file has been corrupted during update.

Other than that, arch is a good system. But I’d rather keep it on hardware I know I can be without for a day or two if the case comes up.

Yes, I prefer them to wait for releases. Often those releases don’t really have such changes that are fundamental to my workflow but at times do have the potential to disrupt it. On my workstation I always wait a while before updating anyway, as I did experience problems upgrading from time to time.