Don’t know much about proxmox, but I know that Hyper-V tries to create every VM with Secure Boot turned on, and every Linux distro I’ve tried won’t boot the installer like that.

Maybe double check the settings of the VM.

No, I mean 4% of the overall Linux desktop share does some amount of gaming. This is based on a survey, and I can’t for the life of me remember who does it. It will show up again, with updated totals, on one of these communities eventually.

I can’t remember who does a more comprehensive survey, but the overall Linux gaming share is ≈4%. So, Steam users are about half of that, if I’m understanding correctly.

Sure, but that’s kind of a nonsequitur to the question of whether this would have ended up as e-waste.

A: Would this end up as e-waste?

B: It's the end-users' fault if it does.

A: Okay, so...would this end up as e-waste?

We don’t literally know, because we can’t predict the future, but we can be reasonably certain that old tech like this laptop would have become e-waste in the hands of your average user, regardless of whether they should have been expected to take the time to learn how to prevent that or not.

That’s the point. Most users don’t know how to do that, can’t be bothered to learn, so this laptop would have been e-waste under most other circumstances.

I’ve been going with Spiral Linux lately when I need a VM for something (works really well in a VM), but I might have to give LMDE a try!

Glad you posted this. I thought reflector was a set it and forget it tool, but sounds like it isn’t as smart as advertised. I think Garuda (Arch) uses a different tool to rate and update mirrors (dunno what), so if you want something automatic, maybe look into what they do.

Fuck yeah! I hope it comes to a theater near me!

What if a project uses multiple languages?

I like both for different reasons. I’m hoping Cosmic will be a good blend of features from both, once it’s ready for the general public