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Now I understand. Kubuntu instead makes modifications to the Ubuntu core. Although Neon must be somehow removing Gnome, I imagine.

Good to know, cheers.

Thank you, very helpful! May I ask what you use now? Do you know if they add their software via snaps or flatpaks?

Very helpful, thank you so much!

PS: they say "most other software is not supported". Have you ever had any problem installing other programs? As examples, I'd prefer using Firefox to Konqueror, and other programs to KDE connect.

Thank you for explaninig what they mean by "base"! But then what's the difference with Kubuntu? In the FAQ they say "as there is vast overlap in the base offerings of both Kubuntu and KDE neon", but what do they mean with "base offerings"?

Thank you. By "KDE version" you mean Kubuntu? or am I misreading you?

OK I'm confused. They say it isn't "quite" a distro. So what's missing to make it a distro without the "quite"?

Thank you for sharing your experience! I love KDE's customizability and that's why I'm interested in KDE Neon too.

Thank you, I see, it isn't just a check as I understood. Then the meaning does make sense.

I suspected that, happened to me too, when some Lemmy instances were overloaded. No biggie: if the two comments from the other duplicate are reposted here, I'll delete that one; otherwise we leave it there.

The Oxford English dictionary also gives one definition of less as fewer, but with a warning:

A.1.c A smaller number of; fewer. This originates from the OE. construction of lǽs adv. (quasi-n.) with a partitive genitive. Freq. found but generally regarded as incorrect.

Gilman's Webster's Dictionary of English Usage gives an insightful and (as usual) witty discussion. I paste it here as an image:

According to the Cambridge dictionary and to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "assert" means "to say that something is certainly true". The Oxford dictionary gives a similar definition among others:

III. To declare, state.

7 trans. To declare formally and distinctly, to state positively, aver, affirm.

So to me it sounds strange to use it as "to check". I haven't seen a definition similar to "to check" in the three dictionaries above. I didn't know it was used this way in programming.

Edit: my understanding of the programming term was wrong, see other comments.