The problem is not science, the problem is not tech, the problem is people, making decisions, like making Fukushima's sea barriers 3 or 4 meters shorter than worse case scenario because money. Nuclear can be safe. People and money make it unsafe.

Are this and atomic habits related, or different strategies?

slackware

Can't you run timeshift from a live usb? Never tried, but i believe its possible. Obviously more time consuming and bothersome, but possible.

Two days ago my Mint system got borked by a kernel update. I booted from the grub menu with the prior kernel, and rolled back with Timeshift. Pretty painless. You don't need Atomic/immutable distros for that sort of reliability.

I'm playing with kinoite in a VM, though.

"Generally" is the key word. I'm a linux user since slackware on diskettes. My daily driver is Mint, because lazy. I have 2 VMs with kali and kinoite.

A couple of days ago a kernel update borked my install. A problem with the Ryzen graphics driver.

For me it was trivial. Boot into the previous kernel, timeshift roll back, and back in business, but I can see how a newbie woul go into panic.

A satisfied "customer" will recommend you to a friend. A pissed off one will tell 10.

You have a self-declared zionist in office now.

Not a musician. Isn't ubuntu studio optimized for these kind of uses?

Banks, Insurance , etc. are ultraconservative as far as tech. They want ultra stable systems. I had an acquaintance that had a business reselling ATMs to banks. Banks had a hard time sourcing EOL ATMs or spares. I remeber a story about some specific 486s CPUs and SIMMs that sold for 1000s, due to not being sourceable new from any supplier, and being needed as replacements for certain ATMs

Banks and insurance companies are also scared shitless of something breaking during upgrades to systems that control billions in funds

I run Mint Cinnamon. It's been Rock solid for me. You can modify, add, remove whatever you want. With Flatpacks you are mostly up to date. If you want to install a newer kernel you can, and if you have Timeshift running and something breaks, you just roll back.

I see Mint as an Un-enshittified Ubuntu.

I find cinnamon very frienly and comfortable, which I need in a daily driver. To play I have things like NixOS. I could Arch, but I'm not vegan. :)

That said, I'm giving Fedora Kinoite (Atomic) a try in a VM

I'm almost a boomer. I started out in a Big Iron shop that mainly ran Cobol I haven't touched it in decades, and I was an Admin, so I barely touched the stuff. Now I could read the stuff, but not code a hello world.

A few years back a friend my age, who was a CS major, but had mainly been a mom for 2 decades returned to the job market, thinking that she faced an impossible task, that she had obsoleted herself. She was working within a week, maintaining Cobol at a bank, and making mint.

I just tried it in a VM, and it had me jump through some hoops for flatpaks to work. Not ideal for newbies