The best and cleanest fuel for jets is hydrogen. USSR successfully experimented with it in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , but then they unfortunately discovered oil in abundance. But to produce hydrogen we need nuclear power plants in abundance, it is cleanest (if you count production*) and safest energy out there, but unfortunately short-sighted populist politics prevents that. *production of solar panels is not very green

I've been using Ubuntu for years and install snaps only if there are no alternatives: 1. Always use `apt install`. For the most part it will install deb, not snap, with few exceptions. 2. To install deb use `dpkg -i` After 5 years of using up to date system here are the only apps that are snaps on my PC: firefox, slack, skype and telegram-desktop. The problem is that on RaspberryPI, where snaps behave atrociously, most apps are snaps, there are few alternatives for Ubuntu - Raspbian and Armbian have their own share of problems.

semi-true for AMD64, completely false for ARM64 - some of the packages (like Firefox, Skype, Discord) are hard to get as not snaps anywhere. But on the Ubuntu ARM64 much more available only as snaps (Chromium, etc.), which is worse as RPi - the most popular ARM64 system, uses sdcard by default, making snaps almost unusable.

Just to add my experience:
3. Older games work better under WINE/Proton - for example, you cannot run most of the Sierra city-building games (such as Pharaoh) or old RPGs such as Might & Magic 6-8 under Windows now, but there are no problems under Linux. Most of the new games work fine too, unless they use something like Denuvo, in which case I won't be buying it anyway.
6. Cinelerra (GG Infinity or HV versions) works great for my Video-editing needs.

In addition, I have dual boot and boot into Windows 11 occasionally - the performance difference is drastic, especially in multi-threaded loads. Linux wins and it is not even close.

Microsoft actively sabotaging Windows: this tool *should* perform well under the Linux System On Windows, which *supposed to be* as fast, instead they highlight it usage under Cygwin, which is an emulator. Microsoft continuously pushes features (such as online accounts, Copilot or Cortana) that almost nobody wants, and are difficult to disable. If not for majority of computers being sold with Windows, it would be a dead OS already.
PS And the sheer stupidity Windows API: for example you use mostly the same functions to work with sockets (so network directly) on Linux and on Windows, *but* Windows added library initialization, changed the way you open socket and changed *some* of the parameters in Posix functions while adding mirrored WinApi calls.

Completely agree. Really for *most* of the games WINE does job really well, especially if know what you're doing. And if you *don't* know there are game aggregators such as Lutris, that work really well. The only games that fail to work are the ones with invasive DRM like Denuvo, but may be it is a good thing.

I recently got RPi5 and decided to to run PSP emulator. The only regret was that I tried it now and not several years ago, as 2 out of the 10 disks that I have were not completely readable anymore. Now I can play the games that I paid for on the big screen and with nice controllers. I haven't played PSP games in years, but now I am playing them again.

Windows is getting worse from update to update: moving around stuff for the sake of moving, deprecating useful features adding useless ones, losing support for old software (try to run game from 2000s without jumping through a lot of hoops) and hardware. Invading privacy in worse and worse ways, etc. Meanwhile, most modern Linuxes "just work", and sometimes have more support for Windows software than Windows does. Yes, occasionally some update breaks things in Linux too, but they get fixed much faster. Hardware is usually better supported as well, though some misguided idiots (HDMI forum) try to impede it. If not for still existing Microsoft pressure on the manufacturers Windows would be dead already.

WWE is *not* a sport - it's a theater with awful actors and inane predictable script. Who watches that?!!

Ubisoft has "always connected" DRM for at least 15 years. Even worse they randomly close access to older games (see Might And Magic X debacle). That means I haven't spent a cent for their games since this started. I like to own a game, not rent it. I also like to install it on device of my choice. AFAIK, I am not the only one.

This is a good decision, provided they still allow logging with X11 as Ubuntu does. I use Ubuntu and initially Wayland was completely unusable, with Zoom breaking, instabilities, etc. So I used X11 for a long time but eventually they got their act together and now Wayland is (almost) fine. The only time I login into X11 now, if I play 32-bit game via WINE, Wayland still does not change the resolutions in full screen.
With Mint switching to Wayland by default the fixes for bugs and missing features will appear faster.

Every new update of Windows is progressively worse, while every new update of Linux is progressively better. I have a dual boot systems Win11/Ubuntu and Linux wins almost every time. Here are pros and cons of Linux in my opinion:
1. It is faster. Current Windows bloat is incredible. You need to proactively disable quite a few things in Win11 to make it usable, but it still worse than Linux. In addition many Linux subsystems are very efficient thus leading to good performance gains.
2. It doesn't spy on you. You cannot disable spying on Windows. On those few Linuxes that do it you can.
3. It is more stable for the most part, especially if you are on LTS. There were few cases when updates broke my Linux but in each case they were quickly fixed.*
* I had situation when my AMD chipset got unstable and I needed to manually switch to the latest kernel while the fix was propagated into the LTS ones, which took couple of weeks.
4. Much easier to find free software for common tasks (scanning, disk writing, movie editing, etc.),
5. More compatible with a lot of hardware - if you have older hardware or newer popular one chances are it is completely supported in Linux. For example, I have a scanner that never had 64bit driver for Windows, but works perfectly well in Linux.
6. More compatible with older software (with caveats). Try to play older 32-bit game on Windows - you will have tons of problems, while using WINE with 32bit drivers installed on X works perfectly fine.
7. Simpler to administrate for regular tasks - Control Panel is illogical and unusable in Windows, while settings are simpler and intuitive in most of the Linux editions.
8. Free (at least common versions).
On the negative side I see only one thing:
It behaves badly with some DRM.

I know I boot in Windows very rarely now.

Not really. Every phone is connected to several nearby towers to ensure seamless switch from tower to tower. Every single keepalive sent by the phone includes its unique identifier and *gain* (signal strength), so you can triangulate pretty accurately - within 5-10 feet compared to one feet with GPS.

Many shows and movies are getting harder to find on physical media. That is an unfortunate and not a smart move by the studios. That will increase piracy again. The physical media is not needed only in one case - if DRM-free high quality download is available. For PC games there is an alternative - gog.com - if they go under all downloaded games will remain. For music as well: you can find services with high quality FLACs. For movies there is no alternative except piracy yet.

There are technologies nowadays that use nuclear waste from regular nuclear power plants as a fuel: so-called fast neutron reactors. The positives of technology include increased safety (there would be no Fukushima or Chernobyl), much better fuel utilization, and much better thermal efficiency. The main negatives include complex design and much higher price to build. French do have such technology, for example, Phenix reactor.