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Thank you. This is what I meant.

It's not that reviews aren't useful information, it's that the information is of less precedence to not being homeless and a lot of people simple can't afford to be choosy (which shitty landlords take advantage of)

That brings up a question, is that 410g required to be just the edible product or could it include the weight of the packaging?

Because when the deck is stacked against you with even finding a place to rent - let alone one of decent quality at an affordable price - reviews might not be that helpful?

If you're starving, a stale hunk of bread is better than none.

The same people that would use the "they made the software that was used for infringement" will be the ones stating that "the manufacturer of this firearm is not responsible for it being used in this mass-shooting".

Kinda funny how the main driving point behind their argument is "does this affect me and my bottom line"

Yes, and especially don't fuck with the hardware or core boot/OS configuration. That'd the kind of stuff that can get you fired in most orgs I've been in.

Is Linux likely to mess up the stuff in Windows: probably not? It does require you to do likely-unauthorized things to the device to install, including potentially circumventing some controls required in the work device.

Whether it causes issue or not, circumventing those policies or controls is not going to land well if you get caught at it.

I'll also add: There's a base distribution and then a variety of "Window Managers" (WM) or "Desktop Environments" (DE) to choose from. These determine the layout of your desktop, "control panel" analog, what settings can be tweaked, and stuff like the network/volume controls accessible him the tray etc.

Mate/Cinnamon are good, but I recommend KDE/Plasma Desktop. I've had good luck with that one for people who I've helped migrate from Windows.

Your can actually install multiple DE's and will be able to choose which one you use at the graphical login screen.

As for Chrome, I think Google still has a repository for that or one can use Chromium which is the base experience for that anyhow.

For code editors, there's a bunch of choices. I tend to use Pluma for basic text stuff, Bluefish for a lot of web stuff, and CodeBlocks for C++'ish stuff. You can also install VSCode on Linux if you so desire and a lot of people seem to quite like it.

Hardware I lean more towards **AMD - though not bleeding edge - as the drivers come with the OS kernel and tend to get updated with such. I've generally not had issues since about the RX480 days, except for some weirdness with APU's not liking certain TVs (usually scaling issues). Nvidia generally works too, but requires a proprietary driver stub be installed for accelerated graphics and that can sometimes break on updates. Most Intel (graphics) is ok, but there have been a few issues with less-common chips in smaller fiorm-factor or tablety devices.

** I have heard people complain about some AMD stuff, but honestly I've run an RX480, Vega56, 6900XT, and 3-4 generations of APU's without major issues except when those chips were fairly new (first 6mo of release can be dicey).

Sounds like part of the issue might be that your not-so-cheap storage might still be using the cheap components...

There's plenty of stuff that masquerades as trusted brands, ends up mixed in the inventory of a certain large etailer and is actually fake crap under the hood. There's also the real brands' merch that can be good but make a run with cheap components in the name of cutting costs, or with flakey firmware that may cost reliability for a slight uptick in performance. A certain brand of SSD had the latter issue years ago, and it's looks like there's a lawsuit against Western Digital for that currently.

For companies that have a legacy product depending on the old OS, but unpatched vulnerabilities because said OS is EoL, maybe this may one day be an appealing option.

You mean, a country that has made diplomatic requests regarding the foreign nation in question, but isn't willing to jump right into a complicated foreign conflict that's being brewing in various ways for centuries, and then does react when a different foreign nation starts taking pot-shots at their own vessels? Yeah I can't imagine why that might be

Or Elvis after he died.

My car's a stick, my wife's is electric. One of the reasons I don't really like automatics as I don't like how it always felt the car wanted to "drive itself" as soon as I let off the brake, and the ability to still gear down it up for conditions.

My wife's car pretty much covers most of that. It doesn't go until I hit the gas.

The thing has a huge amount of torque and acceleration for a passenger vehicle, and engine braking actually recovers power on downhill.

It corners very nicely. The balance is more towards center than my car due to the battery weight in the bottom-middle.

If I have to give up my clutch, an electric is probably the best choice IMO

Some of them very likely are foreign intelligence operatives attempting to influence locally.