100%. It's the goto starter distro for good reason. Ux is familiar, and it works ootb.
They've also got the LMDE, which is mint based on Debian rather than Ubuntu. Haven't tried it personally, but I've heard good things from people who are determined not to touch anything Ubuntu adjacent for whatever reason, whilst still providing an ootb environment that is stable and ux friendly.
Ubuntu is Debian based anyway, so I'd imagine parts of Ubuntu have been pulled out to bridge the gap between Debian and mint, but given mint are anti snap; that's something that definitely wouldn't be copied over to LMDE (and like you pointed out, is disabled in standard mint anyway).
I've gone the other way with it. I feel galvanised to try and help the laymen break free from our digital prisons; attempting to migrate people to decentralisation as a concept; as in my eyes it's the only way we'll ever move out from under this technocratic structure we find ourselves stuck in.
It's one hell of an uphill battle, but the hardest part (convincing others to try something new) is becoming easier just thanks to the rampant enshittification in every product. My driving force for most of it has been the desire to see my country break free from reliance on American tech; which if you know anything about the UK; it's an incredibly pie in the sky ambition... But I remain hopeful.
My advice would be to learn (if you're not already familiar ofc) containerisation as a concept and spin up services that offer real alternatives to what people rely so heavily upon.
The only way the world can escape the likes of Zuckerberg and Musk, is if people like me and you show them how to implement an alternative.
Using a volla Quintus with Ubuntu touch. It does all I need a phone to do, but I wouldn't say it's at the stage ready for mass adoption yet. Usually I'll need to create web apps for certain services (there are no native fediverse clients for example, so I'm using a web app of blorp), so it's manageable if you're a power user (and being able to ssh to your phones terminal is pretty cool if you're into Linux in general).
Waydroid comes as standard, and UT uses containers to run most desktop apps; known as libertine containers. For UT native apps (which there isn't a great deal of, hence the reliance on web apps/containers) you can browse here (Webber is your best friend on UT; as it simplifies creation of web apps).
You don't have the same freedom with environments on UT as you do desktop OS'... I couldn't even tell you what the env is called off the top of my head, but if you're asking about my pc; I'm currently running Garuda with KDE (though considering a switch to something like bazzite, as I'm not home enough to keep up to date with the rolling distros, and just want something that runs games when I am back). My laptop is currently running mint with KDE, which I switch to cinnamon when trying to convert someone from windows.
Appreciate the sentiment, but my preference for linux is born from the desire to move away from proprietary American software more than anything else; It's a subject I feel strongly about (To the point where I'm using a Linux phone over android/iOS, self hosted matrix server instead of WhatsApp etc).
"What a great question! You've clearly considered the security implications of putting development tools in the hands of an end user, you are a pioneer in the field of cyber security!...."
Proceeds to provide unrelated advice about disabling Https certification
I didn't answer your question because I refute the very premise of it. You ask why killing everyone isn't considered genocide, when that isn't what happened. 54 people died in an (unacceptable) act of terror. Not a genocide.
Now, why do you feel a single day justifies a sustained 2 year genocide?
My favourite 'will one day be pub trivia' snippet from this whole LLM mess, is that society had to create a new term for AI (AGI), because LLMs muddied the once accurate term.
Dude, the mental gymnastics you're having to do to justify a two year genocide is insane, I seriously think you should get some fresh air or something. Seriously...
The bridge for revolt/stoat has been around for some time now. You might still need to search for matrix-protocol-revolt (or something like that) rather than stoat; as the name change is fairly recent, and may not have been implemented by the team responsible for matrix.
That being said, native federation support is always better. The bridge will require you to run a matrix backend like synapse alongside stoat chat, (so two different chat services rather than just one running) at which point you might as well just look at a discord designed frontend for matrix instead.
100%. It's the goto starter distro for good reason. Ux is familiar, and it works ootb.
They've also got the LMDE, which is mint based on Debian rather than Ubuntu. Haven't tried it personally, but I've heard good things from people who are determined not to touch anything Ubuntu adjacent for whatever reason, whilst still providing an ootb environment that is stable and ux friendly.
Ubuntu is Debian based anyway, so I'd imagine parts of Ubuntu have been pulled out to bridge the gap between Debian and mint, but given mint are anti snap; that's something that definitely wouldn't be copied over to LMDE (and like you pointed out, is disabled in standard mint anyway).