This is adorable

That’s… literally what it is though? That’s what it… You’ve identified the reality of the thing.
Amusing would be saying “This is Deb erasure! She deserves better!” or “Who is this Mo anyway? Has Ian moved on already? It’s only been <checks wikipedia> years!”.

Huh. I cannot personally relate to anything you’ve said there. Maybe we’re using different versions? The only issue I’ve had with package managers (aside from Flatpak file access, snap… just everything to do with snaps, and Pacman acting like it’s never heard of any of my mirrors if I haven’t updated in a couple of weeks, and official Nvidia drivers breaking my xorg.conf in half) is wiping out my entire desktop suite through Synaptic back in the day (entirely my own fault).
I suppose there are worse ways to learn to read the “these packages will be removed section”.

Huh? Well… I do prefer updating via the command line. I guess what I was seeing in Discover was just Flatpaks and stuff.

KDE’s Discover is pretty magical. In Plasma 6, you don’t even need to install a bunch of separate plugins for it. Except I think they still make you sign off on Flathub (but give you instructions on how to do it)

Was the Titan a Forgotten Beast? I saw one of those at least once per fort. Once it was a completely helpless squirrel made of ears that got caught in a trap without my noticing, once it was a colossal brass spider that casually strolled through my fortress, sticking all my surviving dwarves onto walls and ceilings with a web cannon. I had to wait for those dwarves to die of dehydration, since the fort isn’t considered lost while they’re still alive, but they couldn’t free themselves to eat or drink.

Two points: Mint has a Debian version (LMDE), but also base Debian, especially the KDE flavor, has made enormous gains in beginner friendliness.

Specifically Linux Mint Debian Edition

I would still get a ThinkPad, but then, I would never be putting Windows on it anyway.

Yeah exactly, “making her hold flags”.
:/

It’s the Go Gopher

as car is to carpet

Knowing more about yourself and giving yourself more tools doesn’t have anything to do with seeing it as a “shortcoming”

Ah yes. Security through obscurity.

25.10 isn’t on the main upgrade path. Serious users migrate to the new LTS every two years, and very serious users pay for the twelve-year support plan.

Furthermore, 25.10 is a short-term release that exists as a preview for 26.04. 25.10 will receive security patches for nine months. 26.04, as an LTS, will receive security patches for up to 12 years (most of which are paid). Nobody should be seriously migrating to 25.10.
If coreutils-rs does get into the official release of 25.10 and totally tanks it, well, that’s what short-term releases are for.

#fortressworldproblems

And then throw a vampire down the well so your fortress can be free.

Same but then I can’t get the right materials (embarked in a place without sand) so I rock back and forth at my workstation until merchants come, but it’s only 50-50 that they’ll bring any anyway

I’m a teapot