Bro doesn’t need DE to watch videos. Bro doesn’t need DE to do anything.

Most laptops will be more or less fully compatible

If by “most” you mean only the ones over 500 bucks. Chromebooks have almost completely taken over the bottom end of the market (which is more than adequate if you’re not gaming) and Chromebooks are not compatible with Linux unless you enjoy getting your hands very dirty.

Desktop environment? Who needs a desktop environment?

The fact that you’re even saying such things as “time constraints” or “to learn new software” suggests an attitude to computing shared by about 0.01% of the population. It cannot be re-stressed enough to the (sadly shrinking) bubble that frequents this community: the vast majority of people in the world have never touched a laptop let alone a desktop computer. Literally everything now happens on mobile, where FOSS is vanishingly insignificant, and soon AI is going to add a whole new layer of dystopia. But that is slightly offtopic.

It’s a good question IMO. Choosing software freedom - to the small extent that you still can - should not just be about the freedom to tinker, it should also just be easy.

The answer is Ubuntu or Mint or Fedora.

Not quite. XML came several years after HTML! Both are descendants of SGML.

Yeah I know all that, but for whatever reason this dumbass domain seems to be the only one I ever see. Personally I’m all in favor of having a respectable ,canonical domain for newbies and occasional users, but this one is not going to cut it.

Slightly tangential but PeerTube is never going to compete with the Big Red Play Button if people use juvenile domain names like “peertube.wtf”

Search results, sure. Personally I have rarely if ever wanted to save or share such URLs. But sure.

Sure, but my script only gets rid of the second and later parameters, i.e. ones with & not ?. Personally I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single site where an & param is critical. These days there few where the ? matters either, but yes YT is a holdout.

You never define “clean”.

To strip excess URL parameters (i.e. beginning “&”, almost certainly junk) if the clipboard buffer contains a URL and only a URL (Wayland only):

if url=$(printf '%s' "$(wl-paste --no-newline | awk '$1=$1' ORS=' ')" | egrep -o 'https?://[^ ]+') ; then
  wl-copy "${url%%\&*}"
fi

Important clarification: it’s much more than this. HarmonyOS is not any more a skin or a version of Android. It’s its own OS.

HarmonyOS is IMO going to do to Android what BYD has done to Tesla and VW. This is another chapter in China declaring independence from the West.

Translation for those not completely up to speed with the stakes of all this?

This is exactly how I do things too.

But who’s making these “updates”? Who’s doing the actual work of keeping the software secure? Mozilla is.

If everybody moves to a free-riding fork, Mozilla goes to 0% and there will be no browser let alone updates.

This question does not belong here.

PS: yes, you all disagree, but how many of you other than OP were actually interested in the answer to this ultra-niche support question which concerns a single utility that you probably don’t even use? There needs to be another community for these questions.

Good job. But don’t worry if you have to look up answers. I’ve been at this for 20 years and I still have to look up and double-check basic syntax like the classic find -exec one. No big deal if only takes a couple of seconds.

This is definitely the sort of thing that LLM AI tools can help with, in theory.

I’m gonna push back against your Ubuntu disparagement. In terms of “pushing” things, Ubuntu’s abuses are really very marginal. Compared to Windows, the difference between Ubuntu and any other distro is vanishingly minimal in this regard. Meanwhile, Ubuntu is undeniably a solid and dependable distro with a 20-year track record behind it. For a beginner that should count for something.

A complete non-issue. This was not “hate”, it was spam. I received the offending email this morning, deleted it and moved on. The whole episode took up two seconds of my life and was forgotten within another two. Except for the waste of another 4 seconds dealing with Codeberg’s inevitable grovelling apology a few hours later.

Stop giving in to provocation! This kind of histrionic response is exactly what the spammers were looking for. It doesn’t matter what rude words were in this email. It was spam.