Unexpected???

A little stronger wording than I'd normally use, but fundamentally my opinion. Any religious person either is incapable of or does not care to base their actions and opinions on reality, and that proclivity will manifest in other aspects of their life.

likely You'll be supporting them, so whatever you're more comfortable trouble shooting

It does increase productivity, given enough training, learning its advantages and limitations.

People keep saying this based on gut feeling, but the only study I've seen showed that even experienced devs that thought they were faster were actually slower.

You're the sane one.

But on a fundamental level, aren’t we just adding an incontrolable step of noise injection in a decent time-tested information flow?

Yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929 for anyone curious

No they're not they're talking purely at a technical level and you're trying to apply mysticism to it.

Why bring race into it? Poor white people are natural allies in curtailing monied interests are much as anyone else. Driving wedges that aren't along class lines is only to the benefit of the rich.

The fact they keep trying harder and harder to make me switch off a local account is reason enough.

Just like all the other horrible shit that's happened that "will never happen" amirite

To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros was not blocked by having only slightly old and perfectly serviceable hardware.