it is wrong to want to be spoonfed your computing needs

Why though? It’s not like you are building your own OS every time on assembler level, or do you?
Making software more convenient is one of the reasons for having software at all.

That doesn’t mean turning it into an “opaque box” where company interests will be pushed. Having a more user experience oriented design in Linux distros can save a lot of time and frustration as well as make it more attractive to average users. Even power users, who work with Linux professionally will benefit.

And it just might start with something as simple as proper documentation of a package.

Shouldn’t be so frustrating in the first place.

Yes.

Samsung smart TVs already show a small ad on the home menu.

Yes, let’s just shove everyone into one drawer and completely forget that some do it for fun, some out of financial necessity, and let’s also forget all the problems it can cause when using such an image in lectures, research and similar professional settings. /s

For those, interested in an overview about more criticism, just head to the according section on Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

Yes. I think so. It just takes an exponential amount of energy and/or time. At some point it will stop due to energy limitations. Or will be stopped because computation time approaches infinity, even if all energy in the universe is available.

Also, now I think about the movie “The Thirteenth Floor”.

What if I told you that you can have constructive discussions without being verbally abusive?