Endmaker

that OS turned me off unless it has substantially improved since then

That was my experience with Pop!_OS too. I tried switching to it after finding that Ubuntu has a lot of bloat.

In the end, I went back to Ubuntu, because it works right out of the box - even with my Nvidia graphics card! (only from 20.04 onwards; 18.04 and older versions were problematic)

When I reinstalled Ubuntu, I chose the custom / minimal installation option, and that cut out most of the bloat.

I tried Pop!_OS 3 times, and all 3 times, my computer crashed irrecoverably at some point.

I ended up replacing it.

Nah, it’s more of inaction on the companies’ part. There are so many reasons for that, but IMO it boils down to poor engineering culture.

Java is looking more and more cool.

Too bad companies are still stuck on Java 8😔

Thanks for sharing😂

Since everyone else before me is too mature:

They made it for your mom

It’s probably a feature, not a bug.

See: Dark Pattern (to be specific, Roach Motel)

They can simply count which products are being sold more / run out of stock more quickly.

(But I get that they probably bought into the hype of AI)