TrivialBetaState

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?

And that's how WW3 started..!

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.

I have a similar T14 with AMD and everything works fine, except the fingerprint reader. Tested with Debian, Fedora, MX, and more

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.

I am not a US citizen, nor live in the USA. I have spent, as a tourist, less than two months there in aggregate over multiple trips. Therefore, I don't have any understanding of how USA works, other than what I read and watch (which I don't do very diligently on this subject). Can someone explain to me how the country that was guiding light of the world for most of my life (even if not "perfect" internally ever) has degraded into such a mess? I cannot believe that "Trump just happened". What were the causes that made Trump the strongest president ever? It's not just that GOP has control over all the houses. It has happened before but there was always internal opposition. Different opinions within the same party. But now, it appears that everyone in the GOP doesn't dare to deviate from the trumpist line. How did you guys get there?

Congrats! Thank you very much for your incredible work

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.

MX Linux. It is Debian with setup and tools I really want but would be too lazy to prepare in one go. Love it as much as I love Debian.

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.