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Well this was a useless article. Basically some descriptions and referral links.

The “Pros and cons” section for Windows doesn’t list a single negative. Really? They couldn’t think of anything bad that’s happened with the OS recently?

MacOS wins the peripheral war after providing the argument “dongles are technically peripherals”. They might also count things like their monitor stand as a peripheral because a mac user from one of their own commercials once said, and I quote, “what’s a computer?”

Sounds like this article was more based on contributions from “marketing departments” than “journalists” or “anyone you should take tech advice from”, though to be fair I haven’t read it yet and am only going by comments and observations of the current state of “tech journalism”.

The only services I have native are pihole and Home Assistant. What are you running that is easier to maintain natively?

I would even be so bold to claim that it is possible to run multiple services on a single computer without containers. My 10 year old PC with 15W CPU doesn’t break a sweat. I can install packages, compile apps and make systemd services out of them - can’t see a reason to introduce unnecessary complexity into this.

What’s the y axis? No idea what “interest” means

Probably correlated to search volume on Google, with 100% being the max on the chart 🤷

Please mention their features and where they’re based out of

KDE based in germany easy to use for beginners and highly configurable for those that want that ability. They have a fully integrated software sweet that has basically become the default for many distros even if they aren’t using plasma.

GNOME feels more like macOS.

KDE feels more like Windows.

kernel maintainers are pushing the fix burden onto PostgreSQL

Maybe it isn’t applicable in this context, but didn’t Linus Torvalds send an angry email on an adjacent topic, but regarding the same philosophy?

Found it: we do not break userspace

Disclaimer: I am a noob when it comes to Linux and building operating systems.

Well, technically, it’s not broken, just slower

Can, but it’s a highly sophisticated attack that hasn’t been reported in the wild, and known solutions exist. This is Ars Technica’s article that I suspect is higher-quality than TechSpot’s.

YSK also this

We all know about Debian, Fedora and Arch but what about the lesser known ones that are built from the ground up?

it was inpired and afaik at first based on it, but arch has threaded its own path ever since

Nah. A company looking to run FreeBSD user space software like pf on Linux.

You could put it into the archinstall script and just never finish the installation if there is no age set. You could also prevent a user from logging into an account that has no age set, this could be achived by modified core packages in the base package.

My (rather limited) understanding is that Arch can be installed both without the archinstall script and without a user. Also, the rest of your comment covers how stupid it is to require a value anyway since people can put whatever they want.

Outside of that, it’s all open source. It’s possible to fork and remove the field entirely from an install script, distro, or even systemd itself.

Nobody can enforce this in the open source world. This is honestly the strongest argument for an open source exemption in these laws. It cannot be enforced on open source OSs.

that Arch can be installed both without the  archinstall  script

Yes. But it would protect them from legal liability.

I meant in distrowatch appears as so. Then again I really like these kind of hobbyist opinionated distros that sprouted in the early 2000s and the zeitgeist behind.