IMO: even before that. My cut-off date is when RHEL was certified to run Oracle RDBMS. A cash-cow has appeared, and the rest of the OS (along with community) became just a baggage.

In the age defined by cybersecurity, this is a very very [*beep*] comment.

They have said "the last straw", not "the main reasons". I've seen recently a number of migration to Debian, because the current generation grew up, got tired of the "latest greatest" stuff that's half-broken all the time, and simply want stuff that "just works". Funnily enough, Debian is still "it". (Heck, even for the gamers.)

Doubt RHEL goes anywhere, but it's funny how many people grow up out of the denial that RHEL, well, sucks. Started gradually sucking even more after RH started going after market share of commercial *nix systems, and started adopting many traits of the monolithic commercial *nix OSes.

I thought it was because Merv Griffin injected them with window cleaner.

I'm old enough to recall the olden time - two years ago - when the hiring had slowed because there were fears (that had gone nowhere, just muted) that US economy is overheated and about to enter a recession.

But I guess the underlying conditions for recession are harder to spot, when the economic data are dominated by inflation (gas prices) and inflation (AI bubble).

All configuration options are under control of system administrator. Yet somehow there are still plenty of security issues caused by bad configuration.

To err is human.

"It doesn't make difference what you use: a pot with hermetic lid - or a strainer. Because it's water and water's wet."

Remember the old times when kernel modules were considered a security risk, thus disabled altogether?

When OpenBSD was boasting its monolithic kernel as a security features?

IIRC, some commercial *nix OSs didn't had modules for reasons of being archaic fossils. But then more recently, couple decades later, also rebranded it into a safety and a security feature.

Well, it didn't turn out well.

We'll see how how it'd go in Paris.

Context:

Munich hosts Germany's MS HQ. And merely few visits (no gifts or rebates!) from them to the local govt was enough. ... But MS's main European HQ is located in *drum roll* Paris. Good luck to all participating in the migration.

Why are you searching only for 11" when you were originally comparing to an Air, which only comes with 13" and 15" screens?

In the Windows world, the best values tend to be in the 15" class, while smaller screens are generally on more premium models.

And yes, there are a lot of options. Some of us like that, instead of being at the whims of what one manufacturer wants to offer in a given generation.

Update your jokes. They are too stale.

I couldn't find AdBlock for Vivaldi. I don't trust the built-in stuff from commercial vendors.

Vivaldi has also implemented Google's "manifest v3" for some reason. That's precisely the thing I want to avoid - but Vivaldi apparently embraces.

P.S. Googled it. ... Oof. They use Chrome's extensions?! No own extension store??? So Vivaldi is merely a dressed up Chrome? Disappoint.

Any decent Firefox alternative appeared?

I've long started dreading Fx upgrades. It's an unpleasant feeling. Time to move on.

Is there any Firefox-based browser appeared that is suitable as a "workhorse browser" like e.g. older Firefox/Mozilla/Navigator versions?

Something that just works without idiotic animated everything or sliding menus BS? no pop-ups announcing "new features"(tm)? and please no pastel or gradient BS?

Yes, a Chromebook that is likely several years old and cost $200 is going to be disappointing compared to a $1000 laptop from a premium manufacturer.

There is an awful lot of middle ground between those, though.

The tasks may be similar, but iOS is aggressive about suspending or terminating applications that are not in the foreground.

I would be skeptical of performance with multiple foregrounded apps, personally.

Year of Wayland on Linux is any minute now. Thus it's never too early to throw away the "old junk"(tm), that works and is used daily by millions, that is inevitably going to be replaced by... jam tomorrow.

What's going to happen first: Wayland or AGI?