How do they make money with proton and foss?

I've been using mint exclusively for like 3 months and have been using a hearty blend of terminal installs and the program manager app.

It seems to not have caused any problems YET, but I've been assured it will. I see flatpack conversations a lot and don't fully understand the differences (apart from the install method).

Is it worth understanding and committing to a single system or can I just be a low-power user for a while?

Macos is free. At the cost of paying *2 for hardware

Yeah, when w10 dies this is probably what I'll end up doing too. I want to ditch windows but a lot of the programs I use don't have Linux support

Despite its drawbacks electron is probs a great thing for linux uptake. it makes cross platform development very easy

Unless they don't provide ARM downloads or have some other problem, couldn't you just use the ARM version, because part of what QEMU is is an emulator, to emulate other architectures?

You have to pay for hardware to run any operating system.

I use Arch, btw.

No flak. I do, too.

I only ever had one: macOS is free. That is factually, correct

And no one here has been able to prove otherwise in anyway. And no, “something else cost money so this cost money, even though it’s free“ is not a valid argument.

Now you’re just talking to yourself.

macOS is free, and no one here has been able to give a single shred of evidence to prove to the contrary.

FUCK ADOBE

But yea, those cock suckers are the only reason I have to dual boot.

A sidestory to this is that Flatpak and AppImage have been miraculous boosts to Linux OS machines. After I figured out that ya gotta throw the --user flag into your flatpak installs so they don't jam up your / tree, and also throwing flatpak override --user xyz.app onto a few apps that benefit from universal access, things have been fine and dandy.

I continue to be happy with how awesome Linux has gotten just over the past 5 years.

One thing you might notice is that flatpak defaults to "system" installs. Is your root system directory filling up? You probably want to start installing onto --user, as this will put things in /home where they belong and, by default, sandbox permissions away from root (that, too, can be easily changed).

Also, don't fear mixing different ways of installing. I use AppImage, Flatpak, the default app-get install method, and .deb. FlatPak at this point is the best, because it offers the ease of use of AppImage, but the flexibility and auto-maintenance of apt-get/Software Update. The only problems I've encountered were due to me not understanding that it was filling up my root partition by default...

I've been running Mint MATE for about 9 years. Love it to death.

You're out of arguments my man

I don't have to solder my ssd to the system to use it

Locked in their ecosystem because they're abusing their dominant position

"cock suckers" don't make sense here though

I only ever had one: macOS is free. That is factually, correct

And no one here has been able to prove otherwise in anyway. And no, “something else cost money so this cost money, even though it’s free“ is not a valid argument.

So what?

That doesn’t change the fact that macOS is free.

They did and you didn't get it.

I can hardly be blamed for not participating in another person’s delusion. Or yours.

macOS is free. But you’re free to try to prove otherwise. A lot of people have tried and failed hilariously.