All five times are listed here.
None of that other stuff matters if they’re this incompetent at something as basic as SSL certificates. It’s not dogma. It’s not nitpicking. This is Security 101. I can’t recommend a distro that fails this badly at a basic security task to newcomers.
I’m sorry, but the fact that they failed to renew their SSL certificates and told their users to change their system clocks as a workaround, not once, not twice, but FIVE times so far… well, that’s not petty. That’s security 101. That tells me they can’t be trusted to provide a secure operating system.
The rest of your points, I mostly agree with you on. I really wanted to like Manjaro when I tried it a few years ago. I would love to see more newbie-friendly distros that aren’t based on Ubuntu and GNOME. But I can’t recommend a distro that can’t even manage to do SSL renewals right.
You keep ignoring every single example I’ve given you by saying it doesn’t matter because Apple.
They’re ALL doing ALL of it. Microsoft’s Surface laptops and tablets are even less repairable than iPads and MacBooks, and Google’s devices become paperweights as soon as they get bored (and they WILL get bored… see the size of the Google Graveyard).
Arguing over which one is the worst offender ignores the bigger picture and will lead to things continuing to get worse.
I said that Microsoft and Google are guilty of the same stuff as Apple. You said they don’t. So I provided examples.
Apple is the only one that gets the blame on the Internet, especially here in the Fediverse, but they’re all guilty.
Microsoft’s own Surface devices are among the least repairable on the planet. And Google has a browser and search monopoly, and almost all of their hardware is disposable once they get bored with it.
Good ol’ inertia! Most people think anything but the familiar is too hard.
So Microsoft and Google do the same stuff as Apple, but for some reason Apple’s the only one guilty of planned obsolescence?
BTW I mentioned phones because you said “devices”
That’s fair. I’ve noticed that Wine’s support of non-game software can be hit or miss depending on what it is.
I’d say your case is more necessity than willingness.
That sounds more like forced than willing to me.
True, that’s why I said they were brainwashed
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That too. But I also know a lot of people who aren’t tech-literate who refuse to consider buying anything that doesn’t come with Windows because “it’s too hard”
Don’t forget about the disposable laptops with Windows 10 that are no longer supported because Windows 11 doesn’t like their TPM or CPU!
“Why do people willingly use Windows?”
Because they are brainwashed into thinking it’s the easiest platform, and that any problems they encounter are because that’s just how computers are.
True, but my point was that the reason Hillary Clinton lost wasn’t sexism, it was the electoral college.
I will add that broken systems need to be acknowledged or we will definitely be stuck with them forever.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. She only lost because of the electoral college, which is an antiquated concept that needs to go away.
Kamala Harris lost because she was a terrible candidate who was shoehorned in at the last second after it became apparent that Joe Biden was unfit to run for a second term. The Democrats and media lied about Biden for so long that it was too late to hold a proper primary. And by then, enough people were so upset that they just didn’t show up to vote, especially since the media kept telling everybody she was going to win for sure.
Fun fact, it’s a carryover from when dial service was first implemented in the United States!
In the beginning, you’d pick up the phone and hear “Number please?” and then you’d tell the operator the central office name followed by the number, like “Bubbling Brook 3-2468” or “Murray Hill 5-9975”
Once dial service was implemented, you’d instead hear the dial tone and then dial the first two letters of the office name, followed by the rest of the number (BU32468 or MU59975), using this arrangement of letters.
Once phone numbers went to all-digits around 1961, the letters on the dial got repurposed for numbers like these. Of course, they got repurposed again for T9 texting and contact search.
As someone who generally likes Arch, I feel like this isn’t brought up enough. Every Arch user seems to love pacman, but I find it way clunkier to use than apt and dnf. It’s like they made it cryptic on purpose.