Yes, they have all of these, and stuff still happens. I have no idea how. But it is very rare these days.
On a related note, I am glad that Adobe Flash is being phased out, it was a major pain to support (browser-based games are apparently very popular with seniors).
Ha, ha, my vote for quote of the day. 
Regarding the topic, I canāt resist a little old fashioned distro gossip 
. I ordinarily run Debian testing, but I just got a Thinkpad X1 carbon, and sound is not working with Debian, as the sof-firmware package is missing. I need sound for my online teaching. So, Iām now on Ubuntu 20.04, which works fine. However, with KDE Plasma 5.20 out, I will hop back to my Debian partition as soon as I can, as the new plasma desktop will be in it pretty soon.
I run Arch. On my last laptop it ran for 8 years with very few hickups. Now I got a new Ryzen-powered laptop and re-installed Arch from scratch; it did take quite a bit of time but I went through and updated my 8-year old setup to the latest and greatest (Iām running wayland, yay(ish)).
I really like the rolling release as you never have to worry about upgrading to a new version.
On my studentās laptops I helped install Manjaro (Iām their de-facto sys-admin) which works really nicely. And is a breeze to install.
Iām always interested when people say Arch is too risky for them; Iāve had many more unexplained hiccups on Ubuntu than Arch. My guess is that there are way more moving parts in a Ubuntu desktop install vs an Arch install where you start with the bare minimum. But maybe itās also that I used Ubuntu more when I was less experienced with Linux, and so broke things by accident more than I do now.
These days I actually run Windows with Arch in WSL2; my entire dev environment is in Linux. Best of both worlds IMO (barring any freedom arguments). Iām tempted lately to go back to just Linux but Iāve always found stuff like Bluetooth to be so finnicky in any distro.
@Tamas_Papp ā¦as for āenoying-waresā 
Have you tested the Brave browser ? (still making use of all Chrome extentions out of the box) super fast and filters most everything or send a clear warning, supercool - now my main browser / beside firebox for some websites compatibilityā¦
Thanks for this 
Btw I use Ubuntu 16.x w gnome because it works AOK and Iāve worked out all the kinks with it, but someday I just might try Clear Linux because ALL the speed benchmarks here >> [8-Way Spring 2020 Linux Distribution Performance Comparison With 240+ Benchmarks - Phoronix](https://Clear Distro performance winner ) << favor the Clear distro - who knew ?
Re browser security and privacy, As backup to Firefox , Iām happy with SRware Iron distinguishes itself from Chrome by not sharing with Google any of the information you enter. Here is a Download link on Cnet >> https://download.cnet.com/SRWare-Iron/3000-2356_4-10889248.html <<
Thatās end of life in April 2021, so Iād consider at least sudo do-release-upgrade in the next few months.
While looking at benchmarks Iāve seen that Clear Linux is the fastest option since some time ago, but I donāt know anybody using it.
Why? What is the disadvantage of this distro?
Is it intended to be used on a PC or just on a virtual environment?
Does it work on any modern computer?
Is it easy to install commercial nVidia drivers?
Is it stable?
Does it have a large packages repository?
āLinuxā is a fine shortcut for all */Linuxās that exist, of which there are many. GNU is also not the only userspace (and assuming so makes me sad and leads to poor support for alternate libcās); I personally run Busybox/Linux, if I cared to specify the userspace. There are also plenty of important userspace programs on a typical Linux system that arenāt under the GNUās umbrella and are not GPL, and it would be unfair to group them in with GNU.
Richard Stallman might have been right to tell people to say āGNU/Linuxā 15 years ago, but these days itās just not an accurate catch-all.
I wouldnāt argue with you.Iāve now edited my previous comment. Ok Linux would be fine. Thank you.
(But although I perfer to use GNU/Linux because to give a credit to GNU (Free software foundation) to give philosophy of free softwareā¦ will always be supporting GPLā¦ [This is my personal thinking])
I use Linux Mint, cinnamon.
I have a dual boot Windows/Linux.
I am new to Linux, I installed it because I use a lot of git/github, and also command prompt isnāt great for Julia. I had some experiense with Unix on supercomputers.
Everything is doable in Windows, but it just feels so much better in Linux (no need to play with WSL and alternative terminals, etc). Also runs faster for my codes in my Linux boot.
And Vim also feels more natural on Linux =)
I tested it, Install is āme firstā āme lastā ā¦so not easy to dualboot with that āMacā atitudeā¦
it is super fastā¦it is Intel Team madeā¦we own the CPU, now the OSā¦(next they wana own you too ?)
and yop, there wasnt much softā¦but all depends on your needs.
Iād like to install it backā¦beside my 8 linux OS; Octobootingā¦but ā¦CL is not very firendly, so get yourself another 2nd SSD and you can hav lots of funā¦; (mixed with lots of suspicions too) ā¦ 