vbox is easy until it starts saying vt-d isn’t enabled and refuses to start when it fact it is.

Maybe it can be installed in Debian 12 now without much trouble…

Yeah, all for security. I’ve been “complaining” about this for a while. :)

Tldr; Ubuntu clones a macOS feature (from 2019) that actually makes sense.

I get that a lot of people hate on GNOME too for being annoying to customise and being highly opinionated but I think that’s the key to getting the average person interested in Linux.

I agree with this ideia, however GNOME lacks desktop icons and forces people into an activities view - all stuff that said average people don’t want to deal with. GNOME isn’t already dominating the DE space, and we still have other DEs, because of their poor decisions based on a “vision” that revolves around reinventing the wheel ever 2 years or so.

and yeah having access to programs like the MS apps is important but it’s not like that has to come before having an appealing desktop

This is one of the major hurdles with Linux desktop and the Steam Deck just confirmed it. People like the ones you’re talking about require software, be it Adobe, MS Office, Autodesk or some other and without it there’s no way they’re going to move. Alternatives may work for some isolated people but if you’re collaborating with people that expect those proprietary formats it won’t just work out.

json spec draft 7

You can’t just go it alone with free software when all your colleagues expect you to use proprietary tools

Yeah that’s my point.

So your take is that instead of trying to make Windows binaries run Linux it would be way easier to just get macOS binaries because it is all BSD. That’s an interesting take indeed.

There’s comments in the specs and a bunch of parsers that actually inore //

Dead like any other Linux distro that is mainly a desktop.

The thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS comes with a carefully considered set of apps that cater to everyday needs

Here’s the issue, elementary OS is made for regular people who want a computer that works, an attempt at replicating macOS, and that same group of people need proprietary software like MS Office that isn’t available under Linux. The alternatives won’t cut it for people once they’ve to collaborate with other who use the proprietary stuff.

elementary OS is essentially a misguided marketing exercise where the founders / company failed to study and understand their target market.