Thanks. My city is not a high crime area. Nobody steals frames or cuts wheels. A mix of casual theft and organised truck load theft. As many people don't lock or don't lock to something fixed if there are just trees. Which is why a long lock is essential.

I've had spokes break on a regular basis. If you dont hear it, then another will break at some stage.

So long! And thanks for the memory.

Just for those who've not tried it, hub dynamo lights seem to have the best all round experience in city biking. A hub dynamo is something worth considering next time you buy a bike. Although I've retrofitted by replacing the front wheel once.

Why dynamo lights? It's a huge convenience, and means no excuses for riding at night:

• Never forget to charge, or check charge level, or buy batteries.
• Never go out without lights hoping you'll be home before dark.
• Never have lights lost or stolen. Dynamo lights are little more than an LED + lens.
• Never attach and detach lights each ride. Just walk away.
• Never even switch lights on and off ever again. Leave them on.
• Never have to carry your lights somehow with you all evening.

It's clear we don't want US spyware.

Me in shop: I want to buy a robot vacuum cleaner. Do you have one of those sweary ones?

I might be an idiot, but I'm not going to use a Mac.

This meme also perpetuates the myth that to use Linux you must be an IT person. I just use it as a user.

Great. Now everyone will be copying Apple's foldable idea.

Managing digital information today is a horrible mess of silos and big business driven incompatibilities. It often drives people to use PDFs, as there is nothing appropriate. Blame the software/businesses, not the victims/users.

Gimp isn't perfect. But neither is Photoshop. In fact Lightroom users grizzle that Photoshop is so much harder to use than Lightroom. It's a different animal.

I use Pinta or Paint.Net when I want a quick edit. But Gimp has the tools for serious editing. More tools, more hard to use.

Some Gimp things, yes! should be improved. And other things are being improved as we speak. And some things can be done on a photo much easier in Inkscape.

I hope the whiners donated to Gimp development? No? Then just please step back, and think for a bit. If thinking is too hard, then just take a deep breath.

I blame the Linux gatekeepers, keeping people on Windows. By pushing out misinformation to Linux newbies who ask a question online, and scaring them away.

I agree with the OP. But swap the term "newbie" for "casual user" or "non IT user", and more people would agree. Even the nerdiest IT Pro was a newbie whenever they use a distro for the first time. Avoid the term "normie" too, as people have different ideas of what normal is. There are more non IT, power users who have a deep knowledge of their applications, than all Linux users put together.

So this discussion is all around a sloppy choice of terminology.