It could. It just doesn't want to. Why would it? Its your computer.

If you want to delete / including the EFI partition turning your machine into a paperweight you should be allowed to do so.

SELinux: I'm sorry Dave, we don't do that here.

This is a good reason for static linking. All the dependencies are built into the binary, meaning it is more portable and future proof.

We don't need flatpak for this!

Flatpak time

Just supply the dependencies with a chroot. That's how we did it before distro maintainers started including the 32bit libraries into the 64bit OS.

I've clicked the "install updates tonight" button a bunch of times, it consistently fails to update and then I have to force it to update the next morning. Incredibly poor experience.

Yes but it also reopens everything exactly as you left it, meaning you can update and not loose anything mission critical; ymmv ofc but in my personal experience MacOS has the best update experience from mainstream OS

The best way to dual boot windows and linux is with separate drives, not partitions imo.

It is quick and easy. Maintaining any other OS side by side is always a bigger ordeal than not doing it. It breaks the other way around as well - If you were running some linux distro and then tried dual booting by installing windows - no way you'd be able to boot into linux without extra tweaking.

A great learning experience to not copy paste commands yoj don't understand.

I'm pretty sure that if you use elevated privileges to run commands you don't understand, you can break Windows just as much as you can break Linux. Windows might pop up an extra "Are you sure?" box or two though. It's been a while since I did anything on that OS.

I much prefer that to Apple's approach of "you probably didn't want to do that, so you can't". I've literally had to boot into Linux to fix things on Macs. Fucking infuriating.

I would say you can on do that on Windows and Android, but it is not intended by the OS and you have to work around certain measures. Linux just lets you do everything, even if it is a really bad idea

Windows 11 isn't even backwards-compatible with 7-year-old CPUs! Run a 32-bit or 16-bit (dos) exe on Win11/x64? Think again. Windows drivers are always a pain in the butt. Load up an old driver for your favorite peripheral? Probably won't work.

But is that desirable? I'd rather break things in favor of something better, and provide a way to make the old thing run, than be stuck with ancient baggage

Also, while that's true for software, compatibility for old hardware is horrible under Windows

An equal amount of wasted energy is output defending a trillion dollar corporation that doesn't care about those defending them at all. Apple be fine. Let's just use our computers and move on with our lives; it doesn't have to be personal.

Considering how difficult it still can be to get root on Android, I understand the shade, though.

On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

Wrong. You can install Flatpak apps as a user, which are very similar to apps on Android.

You can install ~~an~~ and uninstall Flatpak applications in Linux as normal user.

On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

That's not true at all. You generally can't use your distribution's package manager to install or uninstall without elevated privileges. But you can download packages, or executables with their own installer, and unpack/install under your home directory. Or, you can compile from source, and if you ./configure'd it properly make install will put it under your home.

Standard Linux distributions don't place restrictions on what you can and cannot execute; if it needs permissions for device access of course you'll need to sort that out.