This! If it is Free Software, it respects everyone's freedom. If I don't like the developer, I will not buy them a coffee. If I don't like the software practices of the developer, a fork is in order (e.g. Oracle with OpenOffice --> LibreOffice)
One thing that I love about Cosmic is that it is made in Rust and is licensed under GPL. This is contrast to the replacement of the coreutils with new, Rust made, which are unfortunately licensed under MIT. Ubuntu rushed to adopt them. One more case of foul play by them after making the server side of snap proprietary.
I am with you 100% on the reddit aspect but have to acknowledge that any person can make their own choices. Eventually, a platform with much longer history will continue being successful, if only due to inertia alone. However, one more big mistake from reddit may be enough for the FOSS subs to migrate to this platform.
As for the Linux kernel, are you sure it is hosted on github? Or is it only a backup?
While all areas could benefit in terms of stability and ease of development from standadization, the whole system and each area would suffer in terms of creativity. There needs to be a balance.
However, if I had to choose one thing, I'd say the package management. At the moment we have deb, rpm, pacman, flatpak, snap (the latter probably should not be considered as the server side is proprietary) and more from some niche distros. This makes is very difficult for small developers to offer their work to all/most users.
Otherwise, I think it is a blessing having so many DEs, APIs, etc.
It should work without any issues. AMD is perfectly fine. They are among the main contributors to the Linux kernel and their products work just fine. In general, you should be worried only about nVidia cards, which this laptop doesn't have. Even these are working much better nowadays.
Mozilla has already fulfilled as my hopes. They release truly free software of the highest quality. Firefox is an excellent browser and ecosystem and thinderbird is an excellent email client (or so I hear - I use only web-based email).
My dream is for them to remain faithful to their own principles.
My first distro was Suse Linux 8.1. I had to buy the box as downloading was not an option with my dial-up connection back then. However, the first distro that I fell in love with was Fedora Core. The original one. I bought the book which had the DVD with the full installation. I was hooked. That was more than 20 years ago.
MX Linux. It's exactly how I'd set up Debian if I wasn't too lazy. Although, I've gone back to Debian after Bookwarm was released. I love it but miss MX
This is just zdnet being zdnet
Firefox remains the best browser for me and many others. The percentage of users in highly educated groups is much higher and there is a reason for this.
I have been using wayland on kde the last two years on Debian and MX Linux with zero issues. My general usa includes coding, music production, Libre office and web browsing. So, no much gaming, if that is your concern.
Ctrl+Shift+A will get you to Add-ons and Themes. Click on Extensions, if it is not already chosen.
Among your extensions you should see relay. Click the switch to the right to turn it off or the three dots to remove it completely.
For someone as tech illiterate as my mom, I'd advise against trying it.
But you are here and my mom would never know that Lemmy is a thing. You also ask about Linux.
I'd guess that you will have great fun using and appreciating what Linux and the foss communities have created.
The author is exited but I'm not.
I am not a big fan of corporations taking the free work of FOSS developers and turning it into a proprietary dystopia.
This! If it is Free Software, it respects everyone's freedom. If I don't like the developer, I will not buy them a coffee. If I don't like the software practices of the developer, a fork is in order (e.g. Oracle with OpenOffice --> LibreOffice)