It’s the steam survey, it’s rough as guts. Why would anyone even post this ‘result’ let alone try to market it as ‘oh no linux is dying fam bro lol’

It’s 0.3%

0.3% change on the steam survey is not a “dip” it’s a blip.

I’m not worried about ubuntu, or its offshoots. It is disappointing that a linux distro would go that way, but they were always towards the top of the list of one’s most likely to.

I don’t believe your assessment is accurate, but I’m not worried about that either.

Your partner is “fervently anti-AI”, but you are not.

Is your partner engaging in/reading this thread, and making up their own mind, or are they allowing you to make a decision that doesn’t necessarily reflect, or respect their choices?

Using a different base does not complicate things as much as you might expect, and may also be logical considering you are anti-snap

ubuntu going down the ai toilet, and fedora trying to, makes me happy that I chose arch. ubuntu and fedora corporate ties are one of the reasons why I made that decision, and are also why they are making the wrong decisions, and are likely to get worse.

ai could have been good, but take a look around you, humanity cannot be trusted.

I found it very easy to switch to linux on my own pc, surprisingly easy. Work will be more complicated, hopefully it goes well. I have no issue with libreoffice, it works well for my needs.

Ubuntu now uses ai, your best bet if you are genuinely anti ai is to search for it https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=ubuntu+ai&ia=web

I would assume that means anything ubuntu based will include ai at some stage, or at least become complicated by its inclusion in ubuntu. I guess it depends how removed from ubuntu they now are.

I hear the kardashians and mcdonalds are also popular…

Agreed, if they want you to have a device, they need to supply it.

so mainly microsoft software…

Which OS do you use?

I agree re: mint being dated

Ubuntu is getting into ai, so that means all of its babies are too

fedora toyed with the idea of ai but user push back stopped them (last I heard), but it is still something that interested them.

One of the arch distros is the way to go imo, I have been using manjaro kde (manjaro xfce prior to that) for a few years, I have distrohopped a couple of times out of interest, and never found anything as logical and user friendly as it. I currently also have debian, garuda kde lite, artix, and endeavour installed… but never switch to them.

Debian is weird but interesting, pain in the arse if you have nvidia. It also has weird password restrictions (not really a big deal, and can be modified with some effort)

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=porteux

"Image size 500-800MB"rather small eh

Neither fedora, or debian are logical/user friendly to begin with. I have not looked at popos for a few years, and do not remember it.

Manjaro is too logical in multiple ways.