The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
The problem is that Ubuntu overuses snaps, even when there are completely acceptable .deb alternatives, that will perform consistently better; typically distros using appimage and flatpak don’t do the same.
That said if this isn’t a big deal for you Ubuntu might be still an option. As the saying goes, better the devil that we know.
Since your main priority is stability, I’d suggest either Debian Stable or Mint. Debian Stable is rock solid, but the software is ancient; Mint is a good compromise. They both have a nice package selection.
The reason why I don’t recommend Ubuntu itself is snaps. Huge downloads with lots of wasted disk space, wasted memory, less user control, mismatching themes, larger loading times… urgh.
Desktop environment is such a personal matter that it’s hard to say which one would be the best for you. I’m a big fan of MATE - it’s small, it’s nice, you can reasonably customise it without new extensions or applets. Xfce would be also a good performance-focused choice.
I remember. And how much shit the community flung towards them. And their rep is still stained with it, as it should be.
It conveys “I have such a disdain for that thing that I’m asterisking its name like it was a slur or swear word”.
I’m not a big fan either, even if you can find some secondary roles for that (as keeping someone from finding it, like ilinamorato exemplified). It distracts the reader from what is being said to the author’s personal opinion about what is being said.
Every bloody single thing with printers is wrong, shitty, filthy, disgusting, assumptive, braindead, idiotic, and it makes me wonder if the printer industry only recruits people who are outsmarted by a pile of green potatoes.
So… OP, if it’s any consolation, I know that feel. It is infuriating.
Reporting scams to Google is a waste of your time. If the company has any sort of manual review of the reports (I have my doubts), odds are that the review happens only if an item is reported by multiple people, and that the reviewers don’t spend more than five whole seconds checking it.
Hieroglyphs and kanjis are still linguistic in nature. So no matter how you write a specific unit it’ll be interpreted the same, as long as recognisable as that unit. Here’s a Japanese example:
sure, they’re written in slightly different ways, but they’re still the same ⟨愛⟩ /ai/ kanji, so it’s still conveying the same meaning (love, affection).
Emojis on the other hand aren’t typically used to convey a language, even if conveying meaning and found alongside language. That’s what makes them paralinguistic (beyond language), they’re a lot more like “mmhmm, ah!, ahn?” grunts or Italian hand gestures than like kanji or hieroglyphs. And in this sort of paralinguistic system, even little changes on the symbol change its meaning.
And… well, that’s what we’re seeing here, and the likely reason YT replaced unicode emojis with images. For me at least it’s convenient, might as well uBlock them.
When they look different people interpret them differently.
Ah, paralinguistic communication is always like this. Once you change the symbol ever so slightly, the meaning being conveyed also changes.
The good news is that all distros are pretty much similar to each other, so you can transpose most of those two decades of experience to any other distro that you might want to use. Typically the key differences are