A few off the top of my head:

• Every time I try it I have installation issues, across a wide variety of hardware. (Newbies have also reported to me that “Linux can’t even install” after trying Mint - when I sit them down with a Kubuntu install on the same machine it tends to go flawlessly)
• Cinnamon seems to have stability issues (this is one of the more common things I’ve had now ie friends complain about and ask for help with)
• the blocking of snapd in the repos and the way it’s done can be pretty confusing to newbies when they click a “get it on the snap store” button and things just fall apart. (I also think their blocking of snapd itself is fairly user hostile, but the fact that the UX around it is so bad is also a problem)
• On the subject of blocking packages in the repos - their own packages seem to have file conflicts with the Ubuntu repos they use but don’t put the relevant “Conflicts” lines in their deb metadata, which I’ve seen cause conflicts for newbies that break apt. (KDE Neon does a much better job of taking care of this IMO, but I certainly don’t view it as a beginner friendly distro either)
• The lack of a Plasma version is a major downside to me. (Random aside: I once had a newbie ask me how she could get the pretty version of Linux I had because hers was so ugly - she was running stock Mint and I was on Fedora’s KDE spin)

Yeah, I really don’t get why so many people call Mint good for beginners. There are so many reasons it’s not, yet it has this incredibly vocal crowd who insist it’s so fantastic.

Cars. They ruin cities.

I’m not here to change your mind, but man… Mint and Manjaro are not great introductions to Linux IMO.

If meatballs and mashed potatoes with lingonberry sauce are against the Geneva convention it’s probably time we had on Oslo convention.

You’re making my point for me though. Each of the other things you’ve suggested is more work than requires more expertise. Popping up an emulator on an existing box and dumping a ROM in there is something an intern can do.

All of these other things can be done, but they’re not as quick and simple, and that’s why we’re seeing this in the first case - Nintendo went with a quick and simple solution, and someone found a bug (it still plays Windows noises).

I take it you’ve never ported an application to a different platform running on a different hardware architecture before.

This looks a whole lot like it’s probably some random emulator they grabbed and full screened?

Making an FPGA for all of this is far more work than pulling an open source emulator and sticking it on a machine…

An FPGA seems like a lot of effort, but an SNES emulator running on a Raspberry Pi seems like it may have been a better option IMO.

In my job as a software developer I’m mostly gluing libraries together.

In my hobby developing software I’m writing the libraries people glue together!

Because automobile regulation in the US is an absolute joke.

I believe the common terms now are “domme” and “sub”

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Gretchen Whitmer.

Garlin Gilchrist is way more pro transit and would be great for Michigan.

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Pretty amazing that years of effort from massive competitors like Epic and Microsoft haven’t managed to crack this. I wonder what they’re doing wrong?

(Ok I lied. I know exactly what they’re doing wrong and there’s zero chance of them changing.)

What about ed?

They don’t call it a viitor or an emacsitor. It’s an EDitor!

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