Did you try asking e.g. duck ai about this? Got some good pointers for my own boot setup from it. Also see the output of systemd-analyze critical-chain.

You need to read that output as a timeline from when the kernel starts pid 1 aka systemd.

Sounds more like “Our stuff is just as good/bad as OpenAI’s. Don’t forget our stuff”.

Yet the MS store has plenty of malware too.

Nothing new here. This has been the case forever.

The problem is that reddit and others can instantaneously put your years-long effort behind a paywall. I’m not joking. Look at these:

Those aren’t paywalls.

They are. You pay with you being tracked, profiled, your data etc for advertisement and other uses. That’s what these “free” services use to monetise the user.

They’ll continue to work just fine in Firefox.

The only reasonable option here is to switch to LibreOffice or some other FOSS product.

CERN is Swiss though and Tim Berners-Lee is English.

That’s actually a very poor example because the US and Europe have very different regulatory frameworks. The US actually requires more details when listing ingredients than Europea does.

In the EU you must list all ingredients in your product. Ordered by what it has the most.

It has a mac build but last I checked only nightly build were available for mac.

Nokia is doing just fine. They’re mostly focused on networking stuff nowadays. They left the phone business when MS bought it.

Accounts already require your “full name” but we don’t consider that “full name verification”.

They don’t require anything. You can leave that empty or just put John Doe. All that is required for an account on a Linux system is a username and a password.

“Slippery slope” does not apply here

Most definitely applies here. Who determines what is not appropriate for children? Today it’s sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Tomorrow it could be helpful information related to LGBTQ+++ subjects. And so on.

Computer systems have had parental controls forever already. They are the once that should be used. Not to implement another expansion of surveillance.

About 20 years ago it was terrorism. Now it’s “think of the children” as terrorism went out of fashion as a reason to implement fascist surveillance state.

Evolution is a Gnome software so you’ll probably need to install gnome-keyring.

I use session restore with my KDE and most windows end up back to the workspace they were. It’s somewhat annoying that not all go back to where they were but I’ve learned to live with it. May or may not have anything to do with kwin rules as I’ve not manually set anything.

You answer your question yourself with

in fear of breaking something and having to reinstall (and losing something in the process)

Version upgrades are a big thing and unexpected things can happen. Would you be a happy user if the system auto updated to the next version and something truly broke? By forcing manual upgrade they can better inform users about possible unexpected things, and e.g. advice to do backups first. Thus users would be more prepared for this. Also version upgrades take a lot longer time than normal updates since it has update all packages, do other changes to the system etc.

Xrdp won’t work if there is already an active user session locally with the same user account that is trying to connect remotely.

They didn’t change name. OpenOffice still exists. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

Support your local European companies.

Maybe. Though I haven’t seen anything of that sort over the years. They’ve been around quite a while and long ago they removed all ads from their platform.