Is it powerful? Yes

Is it fast when dealing with large volume of data? No

Are the "powerful" features intuitive to new users? Also no.

Source: I use Excel, Python, SQL for job

Did the guinea pig write this?

Comparing Flatpak or Gnome to Apple seems highly irrelevant in the context of this post. But, you do realize that neither Gnome, nor Flatpak is a trillion dollar company, right? Also, since when are Flatpak apps "barely usable"?

It's not even a war, let alone a two-sided war. It's a genocide and series of crimes against humanity.

Because it's a shit company which seems to employ more lawyers than devs. Their lawyers routinely go after emulators, which hurts game preservation. They also go after fan projects a lot, which hurts the community.

Canon printers specifically are designed to take Canon specific photo paper.

OP, this is what you should be complaining about.

It got better, that's what happened. You're using Firefox ESR, it's not unsafe.

Mozilla also provides a Deb repo for Debian and its derivatives: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions

Forget left-right. Use port and starboard.

Their "Onboard memory manager" software for their mouses is actually pretty good. It's only 10MB in size and doesn't require any installation. The only downside is that I had to "enable" the onboard memory of my mouse by first installing their usual crap software.

The placement of the numbers and their relative size are ugly too. I understand why the sizes are different, but it looks ugly nonetheless.

Linux Mint Cinnamon

Linux Mint.