I use KeePassium on iOS, it uses the same file format so it works very well together with KeePassXC.

I regularly use an 11” laptop and I appreciate how much screen space GNOME allows for my applications. The interface is very keyboard-friendly as well, so launching apps is just one keypress away.

This is so cool! I love the theme.

You have good taste in DOS games as well. Is the “CAT” folder the 1984 game “Alley Cat”?

Joke’s on you, I use Java for some open-source projects I’m developing in my own free time, and it’s awesome. The type system is really helpful, the standard library is good, the IDEs are top notch, refactoring and debugging is easy, it’s stable and fast.

Maven is great for dependency management and for publishing your own work. Gradle takes some time to learn and I didn’t like it at first, but once it ‘clicked’ I grew to appreciate its flexibility.

Are you sure it wasn’t Xandros OS?

Many Flatpaks use the Freedesktop runtime, so most active Flatpak users have it installed, and will automatically update to new versions. Recently the Freedesktop runtime was updated, and Flathub counted the number of downloads.

Nice!

You can use spaces in the title. This isn’t reddit.

I think you’re judging a bit too harsh. Elementary has it’s faults, but it is (was) an interesting OS with a lot of unique ideas:

• The UI was gorgeous for its time, and in my opinion, their theme still looks better today than Adwaita and Breeze. They were among the first to offer global settings for light/dark modes, accent colors, and night light. It’s very consistent between applications, with a lot of attention to detail. Like they even had a custom icon theme for LibreOffice, just so it would fit in. In short, Elementary is much more than a simple “MacOS copycat”. This took a LOT of effort and it shows.
• The “pay what you want” appstore was a novel idea, and I am sad that it didn’t work out.
• The developer experience was quite good. They have excellent documentation that’s very accessible for newcomers, and for a while there were a number of interesting 3rd-party applications developed specifically for Elementary OS.
• They cooperated with competing and upstream projects, mostly through freedesktop.org, and heavily invested in Vala. They maintained the GNOME email app when upstream lost interest, and contributed to Gnome Web.
• Their included applications were really not that bad, and offered some unique features. For example, the file manager is probably the only one on Linux with Miller columns. And the terminal app is smart about CTRL+C, copying text when you want to copy text, and terminating the running process when that’s what you intended. I’m not exactly sure how it decides this, but it works perfectly.

They ran out of funding last year, and their lead developer left. I think that explains the drop in quality that you encountered. Elementary used to be a coherent and polished OS, in a time when most Linux distributions were still a bit messy. I was a happy user for quite a while. Sadly, many of their innovations turned out to be a dead end. Their appstore mostly contains toy apps that nobody wants to pay for, Vala has lost traction, their “Code” IDE lacks LSP integration, and GNOME or KDE apps look out of place, and it’s impossible to upgrade to new releases. I wouldn’t recommend it anymore, but I hope that they will find their way back up again.