We won’t get railways to every door. But the title says Public Transit. So various sized rail vehicles will connect with various sized road vehicles for the last mile. Everything electric and everything autonomous.
Nobody will need to own a car in urban locations. Many places won’t allow access anyway.
We’ll all pay less for ownership. Less per mile transit. Less for goods due to reduced transport costs.
We’ll enjoy our streets as a place to socialise once the danger, noise and parked cars are gone. Multi lane highways will be replaced by parks and cycle routes.
We’ll enjoy our time not wasted sitting in traffic jams.
All this won’t stop the greed merchants peddling their lies and duping the gullible though.

Windows doesn’t have a real choice of desktop environments. So I moved to Linux 15 years ago. I’m not in IT and always use a mouse. Importantly for me, I’ve never needed the CLI, despite people telling me that’s impossible. Plasma lets me tweak it to my needs. I use Kubuntu, yet don’t care about what’s below the desktop environment. Happy to change distros.

I install graphical and visual design apps. And I’ll navigate to the category by mouse. I don’t memorise the names of all my apps. I’m not in IT, and I’m not working with text all the time. I’ll right click the app icon and go ‘Add to favourites’, so I have a highly productive, 1 click access to important apps. I’m interested in usability, am not a beginner and I know my UI and settings well. I can see why people find this tiny green dot useful. It’s OK if you are not into usability. But note that there are many different user types, with different needs at different times. And the flexibility of KDE Plasma makes it a really great desktop environment.

I have battery heated ski gloves for the coldest weather. As after 30mins, some fingertips start to hurt with normal ski gloves. I have a bunch of different gloves, and a variety of weather apps, to try to get the finger temperature just right.

As more people commute, simple commuter bikes will dominate. It might be boring, but for many, cycling is for getting from a to b. Not some exciting novelty, but an everyday tool. For me, a basket on the back is the best thing ever. Never wear a backpack and get a sweaty back. And somewhere to chuck the lock, or extra layer or gloves. Brilliant.

Set a large pencil brush size and click a large black dot. Then make the brush smaller and white, then click once in the middle.

sure. those are reasons it’s missing some stuff. But I was referring to other important things also missing from Windows. Which is what Linux seems to follow. Linux has a great opportunity to break away, and come up with something really good. But sadly, there will be reasons not to, I suspect.

AutoCAD might be widely used at the lower end, where many just create a sketch and extrude it. But that is no good for car or aircraft design, where you need high end smooth shape commands, and high productivity workflows.

Great. But AutoCAD and Solidworks are not high end CAD. Acceptable for some I guess. But we need serious CAD.

We have to use Windows at work for our high end CAD. There’s no FOSS alternative.

I use Linux at home. Which is basically a, less crap, copy of Windows. But is still missing important stuff.

I’m not saying its the aliens, but I have heard they’ve been buying stuff, including LoRa gear, off AlienExpress

Lease out the prisoners for manual labour. Include shackles in the leasing price. This would save prison costs, make money, and we can all say Trump brought back slavery.

They should get out more.

You could be surrounded by cool people all chatting away. You’ll never know, unless you buy a device. I have absolutely no need for one. But I’ve ordered one out of curiosity. I’m actually quite excited about getting it. Later, I might get bored and disconnect.

I knew they should have built a real smoke and engine noise generator into the cyber truck. So that all those who insist on polluting, don’t have to be left out.

Why not both? It’s simple to install both and decide for yourself. I use both for different tasks.

I’m also not a text first person. There are a lot of us about. I have found GUI applications to do most commands I need. Most IT users don’t know them, as they’ve never searched for them. I pin the apps as Favourites in the launcher, to help remember my processes. The apps typically keep the last used values, making them quite productive.

Oh great! The planet has already got a carbon dioxide atmosphere. So we can’t go there and burn stuff to mess it up like web did to the last one.

Get a spare computer. Then you will feel more inclined to mess with it. And your main computer is always ready to look up issues and set up boot USB sticks. You will definitely try out lots more distros without hesitation.

And there are some cool mini PCs to buy quite cheap.

Yes. I use that option. But as I rarely see the desktop, hiding any files or folders makes little difference to using Plasma.