Enterprise Windows does not get all those ads. I haven't seen a single ad on any of my Windows machines.

Read over that in the article, thanks!

Why is the man's name not capitalised anywhere in the article?

Same ineptness, but it makes the Iranians more dangerous and the US less invincible.

"Twelfnd"

And the actual longer term conflict started in 1947 when Palestine and the surrounding countries plain refused to agree to a UN resolution, again due to pseudo-religious nonsense.

There were various reasons to reject the first UN resolution, none of which were "pseudo-religious":

• The Arab states claimed that the UN did not have the authority to set the borders here and split the territory. They wanted the ICJ to rule on that, but were denied by the UN.
• Various territories assigned to Israel contained a majority Arab population, which did not want to become part of a Jewish state.
• Handing lands with Jewish majorities in them to a new Jewish state was seen as contentious anyway, since a lot of those areas only became majority Jewish after Zionist terrorist movements (which even the UN declared terrorist btw) used terror attacks to ethnically cleanse the area. It was seen as rewarding terrorism (the irony being that terrorism from Hamas is now used to deny Palestinian statehood).
• There were significant worries that Israel would not stick to the borders and expand further, which ultimately happened when Israel unilaterally declared independence and immediately laid claims to neighbouring lands, anticipating they would be attacked (which they were, and they subsequently took some extra land when they won the war).

The whole reason the conflict started in the first place is because Zionist movements started carving out a new Jewish state in already populated lands, supported by pseudo-religious nonsense claims.

Note that all subsequent attempts by the UN to settle the conflict were also violated by Israel, most notably the Oslo accords. The ongoing settler violence on the west bank and in Gaza also hardly makes Israel a "peaceful" democracy.

The average user just gets frustrated and tries to boot back into Windows. I've seen it first hand. Linux is basically all the same in their head so why bother distrohopping because if one is broken they're likely all broken. They consider distros to be much more like the different Android variations, even though those are much more similar to one another than Linux distros are.

Average users just expect things to work. They don't want to tinker or do long setups or navigate 600 different distros, they just want a clear good option and for it to work. It's part of why Windows has this huge inertia behind it; there's always one upgrade path, setup is basically automatic and in the vast majority of cases any issues are handled either automatically or don't show up in the first place (in large part due to manufacturers providing support for their model PC/Laptop, not because Microsoft is amazing at support). And because the majority of their friends and family also use Windows, there's usually someone around who can fix what is truly broken.

I genuinely think a user on a hypothetical Dell or HP or Lenovo laptop with Linux preinstalled would have a much better time on average than anyone trying to install it themselves.

Linus didn't shit on Linux as a whole, come on. Last time he tried Pop was over a year ago, he figured something might've changed in the meantime. And he did research what could be causing the issues (and found a fix for L4D2), and did also mention that overall the system was intuitive, installing it was fairly simple and he enjoyed not having his data being sold. He also said that all his devices were plug-and-play, no driver downloading shenanigans required. But of course he is going to highlight the issues he runs into, it's kind of the point of the video to show that not all experiences with Linux are seamless, and you can get radically different results depending on your chosen distro.

That's definitely not what he did though. He did research on the internet, going through various websites and articles listing options, and asked ChatGPT. That's imo more than what the average user does (or is even willing to do).

He then picked the distro that he saw was being recommended most to him. He installed it with default options, which ended up being Cosmic. Which is improving fast these days, but it's still a bit unstable. But the install process won't tell you that.

Pretending that these users are "bad users" or that highlighting these issues that regular users run into is disingenuous or somehow irresponsible is just unfairly dismissing a valid perspective.

The whole "Linux just works"-shtick just isn't always true. And the sooner the community learns to accept that and works to help these users with their issues, rather than stomping their foot angrily whenever someone shows up highlighting problems. I'm pretty experienced myself with a job in software development, but even I needed to reinstall Bazzite 2 times when installing it for my sister because I somehow messed up something when mounting the hard drives, getting Bazzite stuck in an unrecoverable bootloop (none of the recovery options suggested online worked either). I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but I've never been able to manage that on a Windows install (once running Bazzite ran fine btw, just the setup was frustrating).

Don't believe your lying eyes I guess. A shaky 144p video is definitely proof the rotors stayed perfectly still though.

I was hoping the video would show a clearly painted image but the visual evidence just doesn't support it.

That's why it likely was a real helicopter. This is a pretty low-powered explosion, designed to just disable the helicopter. Here's a video of it on a real helicopter: https://xcancel.com/LucasGimne79974/status/2029851274955431963#m

Same lack of rotor movement.

And here's a screenshot of the video of the explosion, clearly showing smoke going underneath the rotors:

I don't think Iran has the tech to make paint float in the air ánd survive an explosion.

Someone shared a video of a helicopter with tied down blades being hit with similar munitions, and the rotor blades do indeed stay fixed in place.

I also wonder how the smoke is supposed to appear underneath the rotors if they're painted on the ground. And there also appears to be a parallax effect with the ground, also impossible for a painting.

It could still be a decoy (eg out of wood or other materials) but it really doesn't look painted to me at least.