Come back after a vacation. Asked for all emails that I had actions in. Handled those. Later started going though my emails manually and discovered an important email with “ACTION NEEDED” and work someone directly mentioned me and the action I needed to do and a deadline. Don’t trust it that much now.
It mimics macOS, however, on the Mac, Apple has got every app (all the ones I use, anyway) to use the top bar for menus, meaning that it is less wasted space. But I don't really like macOS app/window handling.
I’ve did some very light programming on our C64 at 7 or 8. A few years later it was .bat files to do system stuff. Not exactly C or anything but it was fun, gave me an understanding of programming and the computer. Didn’t end up going the developer road but do scripts in-house and for customers.
At least Mac has the whole menu bar going for it. I started out on GNOME but the empty bar in the top just bothered me. Then I went XFCE but I kept running into small annoyances, that probably could be fixed somehow but I don’t really have time to fight/tweak my computer. And now I’m on Plasma and so far it just works and the small tweaks I have done were quick.
A thought, as I don't know the answer, but a lot of these VPN providers provide access to VPN exit nodes in multiple countries. So the VPN app could provide an interface to choose the exit node. And of cause other functionality like reminding you that you need to pay.
I agree that there should be a grace period after payments are stopped before they delete stuff. But I see no reason that they should provide you with free access to their service - if you haven’t paid, service is cut off.
Still new with Linux as my regular desktop at home, after ditching Windows (kind of), I'm amazed by the level of things I can try to go into a try to make stuff work, that does not do as I want to. But also, annoyed about the level of things that sometimes needs to get tweaked and thinking "why the hell do I need to make these changes" like super fast scrolling in Firefox for whatever reason.
Windows have more or less "just worked" for me for the last 30 years (not remembering anything too critical, always better than every Linux attempt until recently). But I also didn't treat Windows in a way that I had to reinstall it every 6 months (whatever that causes that). What have gotten me over the tipping point with Windows is all the push for me to subscribe to extra things (OneDrive), use Microsoft things (like Bing, even though I used to use it over Google), Edge trying to trick you into using Edge and copy your stuff from Chrome, and changing defaults to Microsoft apps.
At work I changed to a Mac. I was actually surprise at how many graphics issues I have noticed and other weird minor bugs. The biggest issue here is the keyboard layout when you remote into Windows servers and some modifier keys are mapped differently combined with non-English keyboard layout.
I have tried twice getting a notice of failed payment due to change of banks and therefore change of credit card. But then I gave it the new card's details and everything was good. However, I don't remember if I was passed some doomsday deadline or not.
Not saying it's not an issue and I would consider it bad business for Microsoft to delete users data without proper notifications and a long enough time frame to fix any payment issues. However, deleting data online is not ransomware - if Microsoft deletes the data, then they have nothing to hold ransom.
Oh, I wanted stable system but with latest kernel and gaming stuff
PikaOS is based of Debian Sid, meaning you're not getting the Debian Stable stability. However, I don't know anything about how PikaOS uses packages from Debian Sid, so there might be something that makes it more stable than directly using Debian Sid.
Every time I want to contribute to Debian documentation, translation or the like, it feels like the tools and/or bureaucratic process is super heavy and then I just don't have time for that. It might just be me or that I haven't found "the way" but other things I can do much easier. Haven't tried to contributed to Debian Wiki, so that might be easier.
I'm still noob when it comes to running Linux. Debian has always been my favourite - just the philosophy behind it, but also the stability and broad usage. First OS book I read fully was on Debian. Then coming to try using Debian, it failed me (some things didn't work and I couldn't figure out how to fix it) multiple times. However, Debian 12 was the turning point and Debian 13 seems to work at least as good.
Come back after a vacation. Asked for all emails that I had actions in. Handled those. Later started going though my emails manually and discovered an important email with “ACTION NEEDED” and work someone directly mentioned me and the action I needed to do and a deadline. Don’t trust it that much now.