Not in the good old days. Back in 2000something I built a custom installer image with a backported kernel from testing and some firmware to get debian installed on a new laptop.
Innovation or regression? Gnome used to have optional desktop icons. They removed them. Let’s settle on gnome is progressing, while keeping in mind, that progress is neither necessarily nor inherently good.
Try to leave your childhood trauma out of this, and we might be able to turn this trainwreck of a discussion into something productive.
[…] your lack of argument […]
Right. It is so obvious from the context that you haven’t even considered the effects that stabilizing the eel population in the Caucasus could have on achieving world peace.
Scientists saying empty space not really being empty doesn’t lend your argumentative vacuum any substance.