I personally am only worried about data loss, not data theft. But I do take privacy relatively seriously nonetheless.

That’s the best part, it can never really “pay off.” It can only mitigate. Hardly seems worth it to me. Alas.

Any “mistake” you make financially is your own choice.

But for what it’s worth, if this person likes you for real, you don’t deserve it. Your skepticism and classism is ridiculous.

There it is

I’m literally reading your posts and responding to your words.

The real issue is that even today, some apps (Firefox, gedit, some terminals) don’t adjust their scaling to the new screen

This shows you dont know what fractional scaling is otherwise you would have used the term.

I work in Linux as a daily driver for work and personal. I don’t care what the tools are, but they need to work and stay out of the way. Right now, Wayland implementation of multi monitor for my hardware is too much bother, I’ll try it again in a year.

This is you being stubborn because you’re justifying your inaction based on false manufactured premises.

I have no objections to Wayland itself, but I value the kind of stability xfce gives me, which is stable, predictable, and gets out of the way. Right now, on my hardware, Wayland/gnome is not there.

This shows you don’t understand what Wayland is because you compared a compositor protocol to a desktop environment.

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The fact that you’re comparing Wayland to XFCE tells us you’re not entirely sure what you’re doing. One is a compositor and the other is a desktop environment.

Your problems are with GNOME. I dont even think you could define what X11 and Wayland are based on your posts, much less articulate why one is better than the other

Start by reading about Wayland. Don’t make shit up and defend a position you can’t even articulate. It’s cringe.

You seem to think otherwise, which was embarrassing.

Are you upset that I can run any program on Linux? Why?

You asked if they can run. The answer is yes.

You’re the one shifting to “may they run, p-pleaze”.

I admit defeat.

I can run any software designed for Linux or Windows. Period.

If a package doesn’t function, it’s because the developers arbitrarily decided to disable it for capitalist reasons. Not because it won’t work.

So the answer to “can Linux run X game made for Windows” is always yes. Always.

Yes.

I can run adobe software in Linux.

I cannot relate in any way. I would tell these people to figure it out themselves and that they’re ignorant and ungrateful. You’re also a very nice person for putting up with that.

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How is continuing to use their product (thus being farmed for telemetry and other revenues) defiant in any way?

The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can’t run. Your defiance is futile and you’re the only one suffering, not Microsoft.

When an undergrad says “I’m an engineer” there is no debate, it’s a case of lying. Nobody can begin their studies and skip to titles. Nobody starts law school and calls themselves a lawyer. Nobody starts an undergrad and calls themselves a scientist.

The only people who do this are children who wickedly mispurport themselves to facilitate authority and look smart. It’s the definition of being a charlatan.

Are you sure you’re not under sensitive to people straight up lying and denigrating an entire, important industry full of folks who actually waited to graduate and work in the field before dubbing themselves a professional?

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