Usually never. I will list a few systems that are there in my home:
1. My personal laptop: I did an Windows 10 erase and install when I purchased it to get rid of the junk, and split the hard drive for a dual boot. I also installed Fedora initially, but a month later shifted to Debian 11, and have not touched that since. It has been 6 months.
2. My wife's laptop: It is very old - maybe 10 years. It used to run Windows till 2017. Then it fell into disuse due to a hard drive failure. I revived it with an SSD around the time Linux Mint 20 released, installed it, and it has never been erased since.
3. My father's and father-in-law's computers: These aren't in my home, but I manage them. They are also a few years old. They run Debian. Started with 9 I think. I updated them to 10 and then to 11. They work flawlessly too.
4. Phones: I erased my phone (Oneplus 6) only once after Oneplus stopped updates to install LineageOS. Others haven't been erased since they've been bought. All are over 3.5 years old.
I don't have an iphone, but I saw a similar issue with Signal.
My wife and I use Signal to message each other and we have Signal as sms handler on our android phones. For some reason, she had to use a dumb phone with no Signal app for a couple of weeks. After a few days, she was suspicious that she is not getting some sms'es. I wanted to test if this was true, but I couldn't. Any message I sent to her number through Signal would be sent as a Signal message which wouldn't be delivered and I couldn't figure out how to send as sms. I had to change my sms app to another app, and then send using that app. Now, the new sms app couldn't read all older sms because Signal removes all sms from android sms database into Signal. So, now I use separate apps for Signal and sms.
This is anecdotal. I've been able to successfully install boot and install EndeavourOS with Ventoy. I've not done anything special - just install Ventoy "sh ./Ventoy2disk.sh -i /dev/sdb", copied the iso over and booted.
You're right, I flipped the names in my head. I probably shouldn't be posting so late so I'm going to bed after this comment.
You can go a long ways with careful design and quality redrivers, but at some point it will be better to go to a retimer. Which you should use is a matter of use case and engineering decisions. Just please be skeptical of the conclusion that "Usage [of redrivers] is highly discouraged; use at own risk" from a company that specifically designs and sells retimers.
Not official Ubuntu, but there is Regolith-linux[0], which is a i3 based system built on Ubuntu. I use it regularly. It is good, but I'm not a power user.
Yup.. My 2012 Macbook Pro is also fine, and is the more capable among my 2 personal laptops. I upgraded it with SSD, and 16 GB RAM, and installed Manjaro. The day to day usage (photo editing with Darktable/Rawtherapee, some light software development etc) is fine - no stuttering. The other one is a Vaio from 2008. I upgraded that one too with an SSD and 4 GB RAM. It is fine for Media consumption and office tasks - no slowdown at all.
I'll try to answer your questions. I may be partially wrong on some points.
* India has multiple levels of government - village, district, state, centre. Now Ladakh will not have any state government as such. All the responsibilities will be handled by a Lt. Governor appointment by the center. It makes sense because Ladakh is very sparsely populated and the state legislature would have very few legislators to be effective. People would continue to vote in village, district, and central leaders.
* Since Article 370 and 35a were in place, nobody else (except people of the state) could buy land. Subsequently there is very little industialization, and investment. These leaders amassed lots of land and wealth. They would do anything to keep it, including fomenting violence. They were placed under house arrest to stop this.
Maybe I can help address the feeling after exercise. Are you pushing too hard? I've read that the thumb rule is 80% of your exercise must be at conversational effort, meaning if you are running, for 80% of it, you should be able to hold a conversation.
If you can stand the smell, neem oil is very effective. I use low concentrations in a spray bottle, and spray my windows, they generally don't come in..
1. My personal laptop: I did an Windows 10 erase and install when I purchased it to get rid of the junk, and split the hard drive for a dual boot. I also installed Fedora initially, but a month later shifted to Debian 11, and have not touched that since. It has been 6 months.
2. My wife's laptop: It is very old - maybe 10 years. It used to run Windows till 2017. Then it fell into disuse due to a hard drive failure. I revived it with an SSD around the time Linux Mint 20 released, installed it, and it has never been erased since.
3. My father's and father-in-law's computers: These aren't in my home, but I manage them. They are also a few years old. They run Debian. Started with 9 I think. I updated them to 10 and then to 11. They work flawlessly too.
4. Phones: I erased my phone (Oneplus 6) only once after Oneplus stopped updates to install LineageOS. Others haven't been erased since they've been bought. All are over 3.5 years old.