I for one have been in denial and probably won’t switch away until it literally stops working. So, there’s hope.

The word “just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your edit. The replacement for that dependency doesn’t allow an extension to work as an ad blocker as effectively as the thing they are deprecating. This is deliberate.

Boot the laptop from a USB memory stick that has a Linux installer on it.

It sounds like you are already doing this!

Congrats and good luck!

Hugs

But in this context, desktop includes laptops. People still buy those.

I’m not sure that conclusion follows. There are many more potential future users than there are current users.

Only the April releases in even years are LTS

If by magic you mean it will automatically record gigabytes of ads for you right out of thin air and sprinkle them throughout all the content…

OTA is unwatchable.