I'd ask it to rewrite Claude code in Rust, but it's creator apparently wrote a book on Typescript..

I was given the latest MacBook Pro at my new job not long ago, but I forced them to exchange it for Alan HP laptop just so I could use Linux on it. Unfortunately it's Ubuntu and not Plasma, but even so I'm happy I don't have to use Apple's software.

You can easily install Plasma on Ubuntu.

Majority of the community does not care about XLibre or its developers. They are free to work on whatever they want, but the ship has sailed and no one is coming back to X11 except some fringe groups which always exist.

I've been running Plasma Desktop for years and had to put up with graphical glitches in its X11 iteration. I switched to Wayland to years ago when Plasma 6 was released and all the glitches were gone. Additionally, overall snappiness and responsiveness of the desktop and window management improved markedly, I felt like a got a new computer. Granted, I had to acquire an AMD GPU for this transition but it was well worth it.

I've never used FreeBSD and I appreciate the appeal, but to me the most exciting ideas in OS space are being developed within Nix/Guix projects. I am putting up a NixOS-based homelab server right now. Does FreeBSD have anything remotely similar?

No. FreeBSD enthusiast will tell you there's no need for something even remotely similar. I love the OS but some of the zealots are the reason for the miniscule size of the community.

I've been using OpenSUSE on my home PC for the past 3 years - it is a really solid Linux distribution and I rarely had any problems.

The only question remains, why our community (programmers and scientists) continues funding this completely voluntarily?

The absence of eSIM is a deal breaker for me. I need to travel to the US for work and last time I was there I was having a hard time to find a physical SIM for the phone I had then.

I certainly do not want to try to talk you into this particular phone – but just in the general case so you know, it's pretty easy to get physical Sims that you can download an eSIM onto.

Yeah but usually you need to use an app to upload the eSIM to the SIM card. And that app runs on a certain OS. Whether they run on SFOS, I do not know. It is worth finding out, if you can afford the time for the research.

In 2026, I would not want to travel to the US with a phone that does not have the level of device security of a Pixel with GrapheneOS or an iPhone.

(I actually do not want to travel to the US, period. But that's a different story.)

If you travel to communist/fascist or otherwise authoritarian [1] countries, use a burner. And if your boss wants you to go to USA, have the guts to say no.

[1] Includes UK, as they have FDE unlock laws. No cooperation = years of prison.

You could purchase a physical sim card that you load eSims onto. Personally I own one from https://jmp.chat/esim-adapter

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora are two solid distros I've been running for a few years now.

Neovim supports LSP out of the box since version 0.11. It requires very little configuration to enable and configure it.