The question you should be asking is why do we need all this if the desktop app "market" is contracting and I'm using just the same old apps on Linux I used 15

The question you should be asking is why do we need all this if the desktop app "market" is contracting and I'm using just the same old apps on Linux I used 15 years ago. To the detriment of alt-OSs like FBSD and OBSD which I always loved. Why would I want frequent browser updates all the time when the web is 30 years old, and also contracting? As I type this (not making this up!) FF prompts me again to restart because updates - why? I'm sick of browsers updating more frequently than the very few sites I still go to; Moz should be producing an essential browser instead of participating in this drivel. It works just fine on my old 2016 XPS with Ubuntu ESR and infrequent updates. You can read my comments to see I've praised Ubuntu, Dell (XPS, specifically), and Lenovo in the past. But I'm on my third Dell (Latitude/Precision so no consumer crap) with fatal hardware defects ootb within 8 months that various customers found necessary to send me for work (to run stunts like Docker-on-Windows or something), while my Thinkpad's miniscule track pad with uneccessary mechanical parts is collecting dust, and mechanically blocking due to it. Right now I think I've got enough of it already and am going back to Apple which I've used on and off since around 2003.