Snap is Canonical’s project AFAIK

If you choose to run linux-lts, sure, but the plain linux package also exists and is at 6.19.9.

He probably means Ubiquiti network gear

Yes, but it is a binary blob that Google makes and Firefox just integrates with. If it is not released for a specific platform, Firefox can’t do anything about it. At least a while a go it was quite an adventure to try and get DRM working on ARM64 Linux: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/netflix-on-asahi.html

This is good even if you don’t care about Chrome, because it means Widevine should become properly supported on the platform.

Oh yeah, installing Steam from a flatpak also seems to be a good way to avoid some tinkering, I don’t think they have ever done that.

Like hard reset required “bricked” or dumpster bricked?

It’s less about the chips and more about what extra components have they snuck onto the motherboard. Supermicro supposedly had this happen: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/

Android TV also has similar issues

I wouldn’t expect it to matter much, idle processes are pretty cheap.

…in a virtual machine

And even if something is not on the AUR, I could see myself writing a PKGBUILD for it, unlike most other packaging formats.

archinstall straight up could not deal with the partition setup I wanted, EOS installed without problems. Something about installing btrfs with multiple subvolumes next to Windows on the same drive.

Doesn’t LTS change like twice a year nowadays?

What distro? Runs just fine on Arch.

Best match

Sure thing, bud 😂

It even recognized the local app that matches, how on earth is this a better match

Are you sure that’s not a monitor setting?

Since plain http is becoming pretty uncommon nowadays, just use a non-ISP DNS server and you should be pretty safe.

Or Fedora

Does that laptop have an SSD?