The difference with Pop OS in particular is that they offer installation ISOs with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers preinstalled, meaning you don’t have to fuss with installing them at all.

Sigh.

Goddammit. I’m so fucking tired.

The universe is trying to prevent me from doomscrolling this evening by filling my entire feed with cats.

I’m not complaining, mind you.

We did it Lemmy! We saved Palestine!

(/s, just clarifying because some people on here are mind-bogglingly fucking stupid.)

If you have it set to use the Invidious backend that might be the issue, since most Invidious instances don’t work at the moment.

OP when they try Debian and it’s exactly what it advertises itself as:

This photo doesn’t even look real lol, Elon looks like he’s photoshopped in

IoT is supported until January 2032, while standard LTSC is only supported until January 2027, which only, like, an extra year or so of support over regular Windows 10. I’ve never heard anything about IoT being less secure but I’m far from being an expert lol.

Am I having a stroke, or is this headline horrendously written?

This. I swear, some people in the FOSS community seem to be convinced everyone who uses a computer is a developer.

The biggest advice I can give is to start with something like, as has been mentioned, Linux Mint, but also, don’t buy into the idea that you eventually need to move to a more “advanced” distro. If Mint, or wherever you wind up, works for you, and you have no compelling reason to switch, then don’t. All Linux is Linux, so to speak, the only things that distinguish distros are packages/package managers, default settings/configurations, and pre-installed programs. There’s nothing preventing you from eventually becoming a power-user on a “noob-friendly” distro, if that’s something you desire in the first place.

“First” and “Second” test of what? What were you doing during the test? 90.6 of what unit of measurement? Etc.