Thats definitely a possible negative, but it comes with new strengths that can help blunt the impact. It will increase the amount of contributors, resources and money at every level. More people will be exposed to linux and inspired to contribute to the community. Governments and companies will be motivated to protect standards they rely on. I cant predict the future, but im hopeful working together is the solution to the problems any major infrastructure change will suffer from.

Im really excited for Europes expansion into open source. I think big things could be coming from it in a few years.

I hope you find some alternative you really enjoy using.

Its just fun man. Before I tried linux seriously, I thought it was ridiculous. Why would you care so much about doing extra random bull shit? Except thats literally like 99% of the fun. You dont have to do any of it these days. Most stuff runs out of box pretty well. People just do it because its fun to experiment. You learn so much about computers its addicting. I even learned some powershell for windows and zsh for mac because now I understand how they work better after reading books about the linux kernel. I used to be weirdly judgemental about mac and linux users, now I just want people to have a computer that fits their needs.

Its not for everyone, but my wife got so jealous of watching me try Mint/Ubuntu/Debian that she joined linux over a year ago. Her homepage is now the Fedora newsletter. She is a normal person who was only mildly interested in computers before and now we talk about Debian/Fedora all the time. If you like computers, its worth giving it a shot. Just dont blame yourself if it isnt your cup of tea.

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Features and default settings, but its really just about preference. They are all good at what they do.

Also im only saying this because it confused me for so long, but shell and terminal are different parts of the same thing. Bash is your shell, its the backend that runs everything you type into your terminal. My computer for example uses my kitty terminal which communicates in bash. You can change both the shell and terminal. Zsh is another shell, so it would change the “shell language” you use to communicate with your terminal.

If you really like Ubuntu, Linux mint Ubuntu version comes with the snap defaults removed.

Going to be interesting seeing the community shift around. Thanks for all the hard work Lemm.ee admins.

I screwed up my dual boot a year ago and it was happiest mistake of my life. Forced me to learn linux, and now I feel like I live in the matrix with all my bright green terminals on i3.