It’s not so much national stereotypes I’m talking about, it’s how it feels like every thread that mentions something vaguely to do with British politics you will get people from all over the world jumping in declaring what “the British think” about the particular topic. I’ve noticed it specifically on Lemmy more than any other platform. It’s getting on my nerves to be honest.

Why do so many people on Lemmy seem to assume “The British” are some kind of hivemind?

Sort of in keeping with the people saying “the first one I installed”, for me that was some 20 years ago with early Fedora and Ubuntu, I forget which order I tried them but it took multiple attempts over different hardware, any Linux was definitely more “difficult” back then, worse when combined with being a noob. I think some people don’t know how easy they have it.

As for modern distros, it depends what you’re trying to do; for example you might say something like Gentoo, but Gentoo has good documentation and is arguably “easy” for what it’s specifically trying to be.

I’ve tried all the “main” ones over the years and the only one that’s consistently defeated me is Slackware - somehow I could never work that one out.

Anything you like about it in particular?

Which 4 countries?

It’s not called “sideloading”, by the way, it’s called installing software on your own computer.

The British Museum is chaired by right-wing former politician George Osborne, it’s not surprising.

This chart is for desktops, I imagine bots aren’t running on desktops right? So if it’s counting bots the methodology is wrong.

Doesn’t seem plausible to me, in the winter we get less than 8 hours of daylight in the UK and it’s often cloudy, it’s completely dark well before the time the eclipse happens in December/January. In August when we get 15+ hours of daylight, what is an extra shadow (it’s not even total in the UK) going to really do?