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So...you just had a personal pick-up line at your friend's house?

It might just be possible that in a country of 300+ million people spread over 3 million square miles where each school district is operated at a local level...for two people to have had different experiences.

Either way if your parents thought 5 was old enough to get home from school by yourself, good for you I guess.

You're never going to win against these people. They all seem to think that if they downvote people enough the economic realities of cars will shift and magically the world will change while they do literally nothing to actually change it.

We're also talking about five year olds walking 1-2 mi at the end of a long day. Older kids, fine, but 5 is pretty young. I don't think my parents were comfortable with me walking/biking home alone until 4th grade.

There's also plenty of other valid use cases, such as if you are taking your kid to something after school. Or they have an activity which causes them to stay late. Or you don't want them to take the bus cause you're already in the neighborhood and why not pick them up as a treat (when I was growing up, buses didn't have a/c - riding in anything that didn't have a bunch of smelly sweating kids was definitely a treat)

You picked on the one thing that's actually justifiable

Could also kill a shorter adult, I bet they don't have visibility on anyone under 5'6"

I still don't get what you're actually proposing, though. Companies run on money. If enough people are willing to say "no, I don't want to see that show enough" then there is the possibility of change.

If you're saying in an ideal world the government would do some antitrust...sure, as you said I'll check back in in a decade and see how that's going. For now I just don't give them my money.

I have no idea what this means. Like I understand the individual words but when you put them together it's just noise.

Depends on how much you care about security. Some distros are still very focused on "I operate my desktop in my locked house and don't expect police to knock" use cases. If you're chill with typing in a disk encryption password on boot you can turn that on, but getting a seamless secure boot+tpm decrypt is pretty challenging.

And then if that is what you want, people will of course happily tell you what a stupid insecure idea that is because Intel or Microsoft or something.

To answer your question broadly: I found arch/endeavor to be easier to secure and have a single set of solid instructions. OpenSuse and fedora both had multiple mediocre and deeply iffy sets of instructions, but for basic setup and use they are easier to use. OpenSuse bricked several times, fedora was far far far more stable for me but you'll hear countless people with the opposite story. I don't care for Ubuntu.

The bigger impact past setup is the desktop environment. You pick gnome (Ubuntu, fedora, endeavor) if you hate yourself and think some random dev 5000 miles away can make decisions for you better than you can. You pick KDE (fedora, suse, endeavor) if you want a nice windowsesque experience. You pick cosmic (popos, derived from Ubuntu) if you want to try something new that might suck. There are others but they are mostly if you want a super cut down experience.

People have recommended mint for new users for at least a decade or so. Please just don't. It's super out of date.

You don't know their life. Some people can't help but smell what the rock is cooking.

WWE changed its name due to the WWF suing the WWF. Its not even my joke, it's just our legal system being a joke.