Yes and no to all of those reasons, and many others.

There isn’t a right or wrong way to install/use Linux. As the saying goes “you do you”. If going through the Arch learning curve doesn’t appeal to you, don’t do it. If you’re the sort of person whose curiosity sometimes leads them to do silly things that aren’t necessarily logical but that you find enormously fun and satisfying, then maybe go for it.

Hopefully you didn’t, because it’s supposed to go off at 3pm today (Sunday)

You do realise that Greggs is the McDonalds of bakeries? Their goal is to sell mass-produced food at a very low price. It’s tasty but if you’re comparing it to any kind of small independent bakers it’s not even in the same ballpark.

Alternative way of writing the headline: “OAP intentionally walks up to police with a sign saying I AM A TERRORIST and is then surprised when she gets treated as a terrorist”.

You can argue whether or not Palestine Action should have been proscribed or not, but it did happen and the government made it abundantly clear what that proscription means for anyone continuing to show support for them.

Maybe she wanted to make the point that the group shouldn’t have been banned (in fact I’m sure that’s the point she wanted to make) but surely she didn’t think Keir Starmer was going to go “oh my god you know what, you’re right, I’ll do yet another U-turn because of this old lady”.

Despite the K in its name, KiCad is nothing to do with the KDE project. It’s an independent program started (iirc) at a French university. I agree it’s awesome, though.

I see what you did there.