Why was it biting a rock? :/

Ofc it is. And can't do any updates because Crowdstrike doesn't support newer kernels. Apparently security means running out of date packages. 🤡

I found the quote interesting. Is the source material bad? How so?

😭 cries in eastern european

Or, you know, Israel is a genocidal terrorist state and it's been doing this sorta shit for decades.

I think that's a feature. I find "gaming" laptops with all the red stripes, rgb, stupid angles everywhere, etc. to look very cringe.
If anything it incentivizes people to buy a separate "work" laptop (for those who might need to buy one themselves) because you can't show up with that thing at a professional meeting or something like that because it looks ridiculous, juvenile, and in bad taste.

The trade war US and EU are pushing for seems like a stupid attempt to stop China from developing.
It's very petty of them because they can't compete fairly and have to resort to such BS, and I don't think it's going to work.

Can't believe it. And so "sudden" - though not really, they did give months of warning in advance, but I still wasn't expecting it. My account is from October 2008 :)

It's not a perfect tracker. Even this week I was mildly frustrated with a torrent that wasn't seeded much, but it was good enough for me not to bother with many accounts anywhere else.

Don't know where to go on next. Please leave suggestions if you know anybody taking in refugees :)

They should really consider adding more cooling for the drivers. Kinda hard to watch the race knowing they're sick and struggling so much.

I'm worried that Gaben isn't immortal and he'll eventually die/retire/sell etc, and the people in his footsteps won't share his vision. Throughout history this has been an often repeated story.

The fact that they don't include a headphone jack that's been an audio standard for decades makes their claims of sustainability seem like marketing bs. And the argument that it's to make the phones thinner is bs too, since most phones now are bricks compared to previous generations. It was all a ruse to sell crappy bluetooth headphones with recharcghable batteries that are going to wind up in a landfill.

I get your frustration but I think that's just the price you pay for doing "IT" things (meaning here more in-depth stuff than just using a browser)in the current IT landscape. I think there isn't an easy fix, not even money.

The snap rant - I'd say that's Ubuntu's fault for pushing for it. I'm not a fan and I'd advise against using snaps, but if you decide to use them and then complain that you don't like how it works ...who's fault is that? (other than arguably Ubuntu's, who have paid developers to work on that crap btw).

Virtualbox - same as above. That's not Linux doing stupid things, that's Vmware (now owned by Oracle, damn) and if you decide to use it you can blame the folks who develop it for not doing a more user-friendly job, or you can chose to work around the issues you encounter, or you can use something else. Personally I used libvirt + virt-manager in the past and while virt-manager doesn't look nice and modern it worked well for me.

For the sleep/wake up issues it might be firmware, it might be your desktop environment, it might be some software you're using, it might be several things. I'd start looking into the output of sudo systemd-inhibit --list to see what's keeping your system from sleeping if you still have issues.

If you ever decide to try Arch I'd recommend doing so for a bit and see how it feels. Their wiki is the best I've seen and really helpful with a lot of topics from gaming to setting up a web server and many others.

I personally use Firefox not Chrome, Arch not Ubuntu, native packages not snap, libvirt not virtualbox, KDE Plasma not Gnome. I try to use more "libre" stuff. Ofc you're free to use whatever you want, that's the beauty of it, but if something doesn't work the way you want, you can try something else.

And because your use cases are more complex (like webserial, virtual machines, etc) I think you'd encounter issues in other operating systems too?! I think people underestimate how hard it is to do stuff in Windows for example, because they never try doing more complex stuff in it - getting an obscure error that could mean anything. Googling for answers to only find stupid crap like "I rebooted and it works" - which ofc it never does.

tl;dr: There is no Linux "product" there are a bunch of 'em glued together. Try different tools maybe they work more to your liking.