Brave is reskinned Chrome with a whole lot of baggage.

To be honest, I'm not tech illiterate and still struggle with Mastodon. I struggle to search/find stuff to follow outside of my local server. I know it's there and doable, but it should be obvious on how to find what I want to follow. If I struggle even a little bit with this, the average casual user, which these platforms will need for long term success, won't even bother.

Wonder how DeSantis or his successor will spin things when the only option left is to make a government run single payer system for anyone to have coverage.

I don't even eat ham but in this scanario I would give that sandwich my unwavering support.

The UI or DE (desktop environment) is actually interchangeable no matter what diatro you're on. But KDE is kind of moving ahead as the favorite it seems. The you have Gnome, which is what vanilla Ubuntu comes with... And that has spinoffs like cinnamon that come with Mint.

A few distros have really made the user experience pretty damn simple. I personally love EndeavourOS as it seems to be the best of all worlds for me personally. But for any of my non techy friends, I suggest or personally set them up with Mint more often than not Mint is a far better experience overall than Ubuntu in my opinion. But I greatly prefer the package manager (yay) in EndeavourOS.

That's about as good a reason for deleting an account as I've ever seen.

Linux is perfect for grandparents or non tech savvy family if you set it up for them. Once it's up and running, there isn't much of anything they can do to break it.

This has been me as well. I switched to daily driving Linux after a week on windows 11. It hasn't been 100% perfect but answers were so easy to find and implement. My shit works, and works well. More importantly it works exactly how I want it to.

I went with EndeavourOS

I really hope he's able to migrate his app to Lemmy and continue to make a living. I would happily pay again.

We need to bring it back. The internet was way note fun during the surfing era.

We have switched to donating to Habitat for Humanity. Seems like the best of the convenient options.

Certainly a good solution, but the vast, vast majority of people would not even begin to understand what you said here in any level, much less implement any of it themselves.