Here’s an exhaustive list of modern replacements:

https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix/blob/master/README.md

The encryption key is stored remotely and can be retrieved through the Microsoft account

But surely this petition with nearly 400 signatures will convince them there’s a business case for supporting Linux!

Yep, I’m with you. Project Bluefin is exactly what I want from an OS. My previous Linux experiences had all been awful UX, having to diagnose obscure issues and copy pasting decipherable terminal commands. Until Bluefin, nothing ever worked straight out of the box.

Bluefin’s main issue right now is a lack of good documentation. Like you, I’ve tried to get devcontainers working and they just don’t.

As others have said, not with Linux Mint.

However if you were running an atomic distro such as Aurora, Bazzite, Project Bluefin, or Fedora Silverblue you can “rebase” from one to another.

With an atomic distro all the system files are immutable, you can read them but only the OS can change them. As there’s a clear distinction from user files (anything in /var or /home) the OS can simply replace all the system components with a new distro and re-mount your files.

What you’re describing aren’t issues with Wayland.

Your complaints are that you’re using old versions and poorly designed software.

Those aren’t Wayland issues they’re poor management and lack of investment

It could be implemented the same as most email clients do. A simple message “load external content” with an option to always load.

Yeah, I was utterly shocked at the price. £70 to download or £56 on disk.

The last Assassins Creed I played was Odyssey and that was well after release so I paid a far more reasonable £30 or so.

I agree with fully adopting metric, but what budget benefit would driving on the right bring?

Pretty sure you get to choose the illustrations on Euros issued in your country so you can continue the theme. Then as it gets mixed in with currency elsewhere the terminology might catch on in continental Europe

understand what is the common idea about the fact that systemd could be a critical part of Linux which is in the hands of IBM and Microsoft and what this means for the linux community overall.

Either nobody cares, or it’s too much complottistic to be real.

I wasn’t familiar with the word complotism but yes I think this is the case - It’s just an unsubstantiated conspiracy.

Even if were true that Microsoft had taken over systemd by stealth. What is the harm? If they suddenly do something malicious with it then all the distros will just fork systemd and continue without the malicious elements.

You provided 15 links.

Are you seriously expecting somebody to walk you through each one?

You’re claiming not to care either way about systemd and yet you’ve provided 15 sources against it and apparently done zero research into why it has been so widely adopted.