Start using chatgpt to write the responses?

This.

Thanks to Meta BTRFS is apparently got/getting it to a certain extent too: https://youtu.be/6YIc2fVLVPU?si=ngiHWS0fw2zIHf2M

Using Gentoo might work if you enable the KDE overlay: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Ebuild_repository

Gentoo supports slots; which allows for concurrent installations of things like desktop environments. Not sure if it's configured that way right now though.

If you use BTRFS you could install gentoo on a subvolume and boot into it when needed too.

This. However from about the release of knoppix and ubuntu things started looking and feeling a lot more like they are today. -- I credit that to Knoppix for X & filesystem work and Ubuntu for setup and everything desktop.

So even though late 90s it was tough, it was nothing like mid 90s. But by around 2004-2005ish the install and setup was substantially easier however the reputational damage still exists to today.

I remember spending a lot of time in XFree86 config files, re-configuring it trying to figure out what works best on my monitor, and then the migration to XOrg. All good times.

There was however a substantial amount of hype around Linux. It wasn't quite what it is with AI. But you couldn't read a magazine without encountering it in some way, but it was the type of hype were everyone knew of it but few people had anything to do with it.

Another thing that hadn't been mentioned is that there was a new distribution cropping up every day or so. (It felt like at least.) But this seems to back up that statement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

Most of the reasons mentioned, and also they are a bit out of the way to install and setup, you don't get much feedback as per users using them. As they integrated with the OS you have to search for them as a user, and you have advertise them as a someone packaging. Every extra step creates friction which ads up. It feels like a solution based in the concept of maintaining SEP. -- Plus people aren't exactly paid to do this.

Thanks. I didn't know, it is also on my list.

Microsoft invests a lot of time and effort in (selective) backwards compatibility. It's one of the draws to the OS. In past leaks of code we have seen it's code base is littered with special cases. I can't find the link but here have this almost good enough reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/lpdn0x/microsoft_really_understands_backward/

At some point they said that after beta it would be $9 a month. But that messaging seems to have disappeared.

Would this mean free news for all residents and citizens and journalist get paid for consumption?

Check the requirements with the intended institution they tend to differ sadly. :(

The people that do care the most have a choice to use older cars and that reduces resistance now.

Tried beeper?