

Yeah, the internet is not the public space it used to be. A lot of sites act as private spaces now.
Yeah, the internet is not the public space it used to be. A lot of sites act as private spaces now.
Try using Linux off a live boot thumbdrive. Then you can figure out what you need to figure out before committing. You can even test out different distros. Just get as fast of a thumb drive as you can or Linux will feel pretty slow.
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it offers no GUI to easily create and manage user groups
Correct, a very common task for little grandmas and other average users.
Because the driver is the glue code between the device, and the operating system. What happens when the kernel changes, or needs to change? Then the driver on your devices don’t match up with the kernel anymore. A lot of Windows folks think Windows has some sort of stable interface and that’s why Windows is backwards compatible. But it’s untrue, Windows has inbox drivers, just like Linux has driver’s that build with the Kernel. Any driver that reaches inbox status get brought into the Windows source. As the Windows kernel changes, Microsoft engineers update all the inbox drivers to match the new kernel changes. When companies don’t get their driver inbox’d, they are responsible for keeping up with the kernel changes. Some devices eventually get left behind.
A 5 to 15 dollar USB dongle was too much for you? There used to be a time when people understood they would need to buy compatible hardware for the OS. We’re not just talking Windows to Linux here, this same thing happens between Windows versions. Imagine switching to MacOS from Windows or to Windows from MacOS. “Guess MacOS doesn’t work on my Windows hardware. Whelp, back to Windows.”
That was the big problem on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. They advertise themselves as a public square. Then they would censor speech in various ways unknown to the speaker. A lot of people in this thread don’t understand that. In case you are not familiar, sounds like you are, Martin v. City of Struthers (1943). I know these sites aren’t just U.S. citizens, so a lot of the comments come from foreigners who only familiar with their limited freedoms their government allows them.