US people like to give everything a different name. They often repurpose names from elsewhere thus bringing much confusion to online spaces. It’s their thing.

Short answer: no.

Long answer: Linux phones aren’t ready in 2025.

After several decades, you’d think they’d be at vii already!

I see you’ve never used emacs.

Linux runs just fine in 4. Or much less. It depends a lot on what you use it for. My 486 had a whooping 32 Megs of memory and ran Linux just fine.

Regarding MS, the main problem is the changing of the goalpost. And I’m not so sure there’s even any point to the whole TPM thing anyway.

They’re the ones that keep making the requirements more and more unreasonable with every update.

People use the command line because it’s so much faster and more convenient. But there’s often a gui tool. I use Yast from time to time. It has its uses too. It’s slower though (if you know the syntax).

My only currently active machine is a laptop named buttwarmer as per my cat’s suggestion.

Maybe. I’m fine with my Linux machines though.

I quit using it in the WfW days and never looked back.

I keep forgetting windows exists.

For a bit of glue, a shell script is fine. A start script, some small utility gadget…

With python, you’re not even sure that the right version is installed unless you ship it with the script.

You have, look up the SuSE songs.

They’re all programming languages, they all have their places.

Back when I did a lot of Perl, those were okay-ish to parse. Nowadays, not so much. I guess it’s like Bash. If you write a lot of it (maybe some people do), it’s probably simple. If it’s only once every six months or less, eeehhh…
It all boils down to familiarity, which comes from repetitiveness.

So the alternative is:

• either an obtuse script that works everywhere, or
• a legible script that only works on your machine…

I do change the background image every now and then.

Easy. Just rip each blu-ray to its own hard drive. It makes filing easier too.

Sure, just install Windows 11.

Wow, hadn’t thought of that thing in ages. Now all we need is for B1FF to bring back ASCII sword signatures.