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Hi, I’m over 65 and I’ve just dumped Win and MacOS for Linux Mint Cinnamon. Not ever going back. So, yes you should bother definitely. As other posts says, decide on a distro, find the relevant forum, join and ask questions. I tried Mint Cinnamon, XFCE, and also Gnome. The Mints are most like Windows, Gnome is a bit different. My point is once you’ve got your head round doing the SHA256 checksum malarkey and installed it, check it out, install what you need. If it runs it great. Or try a few, it’s a great thing to learn. Personally, I find it’s fantastic to get away from the tricks and all round ensh*ttification of the Win/Mac worlds. As Nike say ‘Just Do It’. 😁

Late 70’s, just after I started working. My then Union rep. ( Remember them?) was a good teacher and saw Thatcher for exactly what she was.

💯🎯👏👏

It deprives Apple and Microsoft of revenue. /s

Orient it so the LED is facing away from you, with the LED facing a surface covered with Vantablack or some such equivalent. This saves on tape etc…

Your hill - first two sentences absolutely, in UK so no chikfila.

Future generations are largely doomed by the apathy of the “we have nothing to hide” folks of today, or those who buy into the its “for the children” movement.

Horrifying for the generations to come, as it all advances from multiple angles to 1984 reality

This. Exactly.

"It feels as good as never giving a cent to Amazon, Uber, and streaming services.

Yay. " Yay indeed. Just started my Cinnamon journey. Old Win7 laptop - never going back, to Apple either.

4 days years decades.

Absolutely correct. All your post, especially the last two sentences. Dunning-Kruger seems to have become infectious.

Definitely not a “Special Military Operation.” No, definitely not one of them.

Errm. Weren’t the Taliban in control before the coalition went into Afghanistan, and I’m pretty sure last time I heard anything about Afghanistan the Taliban were still there in control.