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First you have to define what is Linux (does ChromeOS count? How about Android? Alpine? What makes something “Linux”), and what is a desktop (do laptops count? How about portable handhelds/phones with a desktop mode?).

They basically defined curl as an app store: “facilitates the download of applications”

You’re right that mostly the reasonable thing was related to previous law.

Not just Linux, but embedded OS’s too. Also, the age verification requirement is a “reasonable attempt”, so maybe a prosecutor decides full face scan checks are the minimum “reasonable effort”. Will it hold up? Who knows, but can you afford to litigate it?

Note, there are not exceptions for headless installs, or OS’s without an account.

But embedded computing devices these days are regularly general computing devices, and have been for a long time. If my insert appliance x with an ARM processor isn’t a general computing device, then why is my raspberry pi?

But also, every FreeDos install ,server, managed network switch, IoT device, gas pump, etc. now needs to verify user age.

Also, it has to make “reasonable” effort to verify the age. Maybe just asking your age isn’t considered reasonable by the state. Since the law doesn’t lay out what to do, anything you do might become unreasonable depending on the winds of the day.

It goes way beyond Linux. Think any device that could download something at some point. Gas station pump, calculator, FreeDos, VxWorks, etc.

There is a lot of language like “or can download an application”, so if you can download something, then that thing could be an application, and thus that device and it’s OS is covered.

1. Programming language invented: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!
2. Cobol invented: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!
3. BASIC invented: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!
4. UML to Code/Executable UML: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!
5. Low code: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!
6. AI: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!

Yep, any day now…

Well… Unless those blocking bugs relate to getting new Wayland protocols approved.

At work:

• WSL
• EMACS
• evil-mode, lsp for whatever language, org-roam

My work upgraded to Windows 11, now I have lag for a right click menu to appear, and once it does individual items (like Open with Notepad++) just show up as “Loading…” for several more seconds.