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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • The move to a subscription model is the disservice and requires no particular savvy to differentiate from free.

    Macs and Chromebooks are fine for some people and won’t require as much hand holding as a direct Linux install regardless of the distro.

    People are going to rely on what others recommend when they don’t know themselves. It’s up to those people to cull the list from ten to two.

    Is the person a budding tech that wants to hack on their system? Send them to Arch.

    Are they a creative looking to craft? Throw them into Ubuntu Studios.

    Maybe they’re grandparents who barely understand tech. Ok, Mint or Elementary are good options… Just maintain SSH access with keys.

    The options are a strength.
















  • You make valid points, however, I’d like to point out that most games on the play store don’t cost a lot because the real costly transactions are in-app purchases. It’s common, in my experience, for the popular free apps to have IAPs upwards of $100 for in-game currency.

    There’s also that matter of the no-cost version of the app. It seems perfectly usable, making the ad-removal an optional purchase.

    Considering the smaller user-base and the finite economic value of life-time purchases I’d say $20 is fair. But that’s my stated opinion and I have yet to put my money where my mouth is.