For start definitely Linux Mint. It is stable, has strong support, works out of the box.

I’m ok with auto generated content, but only if it is clearly separated from human generated content, can be disabled at any time and writing main articles with AI is forbidden

Wikipedia is not made to teach people how to read, it is meant to share knowledge. For me, they could even make Wikipedia version with hieroglyphics if that would make understanding content easier

I love being in EU

So the current situation in Windows ecosystem is that application developers spend time working on protecting users against their own operating system

So I agree, I thought you are talking about some profit enshittification on Stack Overflow

For me, strict rules are what make this website useful. No threads named “help me” is why I like reading it.

For newcomers there is https://stackoverflow.com/staging-ground

Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

have you seen: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?

People seem to be happy because of SO becoming irrelevant. I really don’t get it, I used this website for many years now and for me it is the second (after Wikipedia) most valuable source of knowledge. The UI is clean, no intrusive adds, best answer is the most visible. Threads are well organised and on topic. No spam, no dark patterns, no wasting your time. Discoverability is great, you can easily browse and learn knew things. It is also SEO friendly. Why do you prefer Discord? What do I miss?

What exactly do you accuse Stack Overflow for? As far as I know this service has always been free to use and data is easily downloadable.

I have also heard uploading (seeding) is where you really get in trouble

Which is interesting since modern web standards make it possible to exchange data peer to peer in browser. Isn’t PeerTube working this way? So you might not even know you are sharing. How does it work in such situation?

My dream is to have entire operating system state stored as configuration, tracked by a git repo. To be able to know exactly what changed when, to revert back to whatever state I want and quickly copy setup from one device to another. So naturally NixOS caught my attention. I tried it before, once on Virtual Box VM and once on Raspberry Pi and I failed with installation of it on both of them, my weekend was too short :D It was a few years ago, it might get better now.