but I can use it offline with any software I want on any device whenever I want

Tell that to all the VCR tapes in people’s basements. Finding a working VCR player is nigh impossible these days, and it won’t be too long until optical media is the same. Last car I bought didn’t have a CD player. DVD drives are disappearing from computers. Game consoles a generation or two from now will be download only.

Content owners can’t wait until the only option we have is to stream.

The screenshot literally says “sponsored recommendation”. Not sure how much more clear it can be that somebody paid money for that.

Lol, that’s fair. If I would have spent significant hours researching all the changes and the new config files, I probably could have had a better time.

However, around that time I decided that dist-upgrades were: 1) for the birds, and 2) like Windows in that it’s easier & better to wipe and reinstall.

That’s basically what I did. The only change was I installed Arch instead. No more dist-upgrades!

I feel like the people that perpetuate this meme have never used Arch. I’ve ran it on multiple computers for just over a decade and only once have I had an issue. And that one time, it was my fault. It’s been the most solid OS I’ve used.

Meanwhile, my headless Ubuntu server couldn’t do a dist-upgrade without shitting all over itself. I only ran Ubuntu because of the constant “never use Arch for servers” talk. I wish I had never listened to that. Everything I own runs Arch now and it’s so nice.

Jesus Christ, did Microsoft rename Lync again?!