An old Intel Celeron Accer Aspire laptop with Win 8.1, 4 Gb, was converted to Ubuntu and is being "studied." The current keyboad this is typed from is per a Dell Inspiron 15 3000, Win 11, 8 Gb, AMD Ryzen 5 64bit which I foresee converting to Linux when Win 11 support ends, if not sooner (Win 10 ending this year).
I expect to either convert that presently used laptop to Ubuntu or Fedora, and kiss CoPilot goodbye for good. Distrowatch shows there are choices of distributions to consider, but Ubuntu is a highly used one, and Fedora is a desktop Red Hat clone, while CERN and Fermilab have adopted Alma Linux as a Red Hat Enterprise version clone. Red Hat being the major commercial Linux, owned now by IBM.
Both have user bases large enough to last and not go under, and application software is plentiful. It is no sacrifice cutting over, and CoPilot is cause to not want bloat in the OS in the future.
Not that it's news, but the days of Linux command window syntax being necessary to learn have been interposed with GUI capability such that obscure Unix derived command line "secrets" need not be a part of the OS switch. And that can be learned with time. So far the old laptop is handling a "larger than most" distribution of Linux, Ubuntu, okay for its age and limits. Which means this current Dell laptop should be speedy enough.
While tariff news is not being detailed; behind closed doors things may or may not be happening but egg prices are still an outrage and blame Trump for it, since he blames Biden - while he's in and Biden's out. Trump can sell that handoff to those who believe in him, I don't, so I don't buy Biden as Trump's excuse for everything he's fucked over.
Opinions can differ.
In any event when Hegseth/Signal still linger on the news cycle that means things are slow, Elon is downsizing his image with Tesla suffering his hubris in curbing the agencies investigating his business activity; with all that lull, the time was ripe to look at Linux, and toy around w/o posting.
Now, below this, one actual current news item has been looked at, with chain of thought updating, and it may be worth the read, but surely is timely.