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It can already do that as long as your desktop environment uses portals. You just need to set the appropriate about:config flag or envvar.

Thanks, I'll adjust my claim to 5 years. I must have misremembered re the longevity of security updates.

For phones, new pixel with grapheneos.

The new pixel phones have 5 year support windows now.

I think this is a bit misleading.

Most or at least the majority of distros offer the proprietary nvidia driver.

Pop, Zorin, Ubuntu, Garuda, etc just bundle it in the install media as an option.

The difference is absolutely negligible.

I would report a bug to Mozilla on that one if you can consistently reproduce with a new profile.

Thanks, that's interesting. Do they only update the cinnamon parts, or is there something else more substantial that is updated?

Is that not the same as Mint? Both are based on Ubuntu LTS.

I like Mint a lot, and have it running on one of my computers.

However, I recently tried Zorin just to see what the fuss is about and honestly I can't see many reasons to recommend Mint above Zorin. Both are based on Ubuntu LTS and have a bunch of tools to allow purely graphical management and Zorin has several windows-like layouts (both 10 and 7) that are more polished in my view, but Zorin also has the benefit of a more modern compositor and DE base with Wayland support, being based on gnome and mutter.

I'd be interested in your perspective, as from my end the only reason now to recommend mint (until muffin gets sufficiently modernised) would be if you knew a user would prefer cinnamon's slightly more traditional feel (almost XP), or if in the future LMDE became more of an important feature.

The upgrade is super seamless though. Basically bulletproof in my experience over many releases.

Plenty.

For older cards that do have reclocking, it works exceptionally well, including for gaming.

For many newer cards, even though it won't reclock it will get you into a desktop, and even give you a good accelerated wayland experience.

Moving forward, once the new open source nvidia kernel driver and nouveau bits land, and the driver matures it will probably be the best nvidia driver on linux.

I don't know of a distro that writes tools in it, but my favourite terminal emulator ever, tilix, uses it.