English has the peculiarity of having two variants of the same word: “gender” and “genre” with slightly different meanings.

You could lean on it and go with genre. But just changing the word is unlikely to help much, the concept itself is deeply associated with genitalia in English culture, you’d still need to explain it.

Feel free to say it any way you like, it makes no difference:

• 1.58 meters
• 158 centimeters
• 1 meter 58 centimeters

It’s all the exact same thing, nobody will bat an eye.

You may want to look into gnome classic, it comes default with gnome.

It’s not fancy or even popular, but it was made specifically for people like you.

It’s way worse.

With bsd you could at least take the code you got and make your own fork, with these shared source licenses you get nothing.

It would depend on whether you think elop was a Microsoft mole al along 😉.

By the time of the Microsoft acquisition, focus had already shifted to Windows phones.