Oh okay, I thought it was another thing.

Probably. It is good as a backup though, they have options this way, if they decide Ubuntu isn’t a suitable base anymore, they already have things in motion.

It does make sense, though i think you’re right, and they won’t unless Ubuntu does something to force them. Ubuntu has lost so much good grace from the community. I remember the times it was basically the go to distro, and now a lot of comments are recommending not giving it a try.

Is Mint planning the same? I know they have their debian edition, but don’t remember of it was meant to become the main edition at some point.

You lose nothing but a few minutes to try. I’m one of those people who don’t think they will care either way, and I contacted them anyway.

Thanks! We’re actually going in august, just in time for the solar eclipse, but I’m guessing these all apply then too. I just like to prepare ahead, so that I don’t need to rush with only days before the trip.

Close to 400k kilometres. Hyundai accent from early 2000s. The rusting made it not possible to pass the tech inspection any longer and the costs to fix it were too much. It was only a small engine as well, 1.4 liter gasoline, naturally aspirated. Still miss it, it was my first car.

Most stuff worked great out of the box for me. I had some quirks with power management, specifically for my wifi card, resulting in bad wifi, but there are so many resources and so many people willing to help out that it was not even a big problem to solve. I haven’t used Ubuntu, I am on arch, but the great thing is, most problems and solutions don’t really care what distro you’re on, so I am no stranger to ubuntu forums when researching something. And as cliché as it is to recommended, the arch wiki is an amazing source of information, so definitely give it a look.

Surely they mean with 3 friends lol.

Tbh you can probably make a Linux install act like windows if you wanted. So that’s another point in favour of switching for people who are undecided. It can be as slow and bloated as your windows install if you want it.