I mean, nobody’s forcing you to update them every day, and you can always schedule it off hours.

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Regarding Lasse Collin, technically he did eventually open a liberapay page where people can donate to him, though it’s only at €60/week as of writing.

AppImage may be up-to-date now, but it has no self update mechanism, so a Flatpak is a better choice IMO

Mine didn’t die, but it’s Ryzen gen 1 which is not supported by Windows 11 so Cachy it is.

ZSTD and BYRFS, among many other smaller things, hello?

Fir desktop use I personally think Fedora has the best balance between stability and being up-to-date, while staying fairly easy to use and with a large community. If the person wants something even harder to break and doesn’t mind a bit of an extra learning curve, atomic variants like Silverblue are alo a nice pick. My cousin went for Silverblue and loved it.