Pig-like animals? Is it boars?

I’m talking about like your mom if she started using Linux, and just needs it to be able to open a web browser and check Facebook or her email or something.

Nothing. Just set up Elementary or Mint or something with a shortcut to Firefox and there’s nothing else to do. Any apps they might need would come from an app store, so point that out.

A student that just needs a laptop to do homework and take notes

So how to open a text editor? Recommending an easy-to-use and standard one like Kate would be good, but a polished distro will have one preinstalled.

someone that just wants to play games on Steam and chat on discord.

They need concepts like filesystems (e.g. the concept of a root directory, mounting, and device files), software repositories (since steam comes from a non-default repo in many distros), an awareness of the whole graphics driver situation, and hardware both appropriate to their needs and to running Linux.

I don’t mind if it’s called a different thing I just don’t know what a good place to rent one is.

It’s like the other person said. You can help matters by following feeds from relay.fedi.buzz for hashtags and stuff you want to be populated.

Nushell is great, I should use it again. Gave up on it after I wrote a thing for converting fish completions to their autocomplete system for it and their internal autocomplete didn’t perform anywhere nearly adequately.

Rapid covid tests have a lot of false negatives, so it could be that, or what others have said and just “there’s lotta different viruses”

It is civic duty and mutual aid

Proton is too fucking expensive.

Any of them have port forwarding? Thought not…

For other dumb Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area

I mean I know it’s a joke but you can’t actually break orbit just by throwing something from the moon, right?

What about calyx?

Darn, too bad.

I’ve heard good things about postmarket.