I’d go basic debian . Install flatpak and flathub to get any packages that are too far out of date or might get so. Any derivative or ubuntu derivative just sees like unnecessary extra dependencies to me.
Debian gives i think a wider choice of desktop environment than any of the derivatives on install, but I think they’re all much of a muchness really. Most of the DEs have the “Click something, window opens” feature.
I always think of Kiwi / Ozzie slang when I type chroot.
Of course that’s after consulting the ArchKiwi to remember how to mount it
Looks a wee bit like Calculon, facially at least; a bit skinnier in the torso.
oh oh, I’m a below average arch user. I suspect i copied most of my hoome from debian or something.
I’ll rename it to Dickuments as a security feature.
Yes very possible in all the big western European countries.
I’m sure you’re just using “communist” rhetorically there, for various USA history reasons that I don’t fully understand.
But it’s important to point out that corruption isn’t the same as “communist handout”. There was nothing “communal” when the USSR did corruption, and nothing “communal” when the USA does corruption. It’s all just concentrating power in a few peoples hands with as few limits as possible.
Good luck to you though, if your political forces can’t stop the concentration of power then conflict and likely bloodshed might be the only option. And there’ll be a lot fighting to save the empowered, hoping for some crumbs to trickle down to them. I can’t believe that all the pro-gun rhetoric in the USA - that I’d previoulsy though crazy - begins to make some sense.
yep, value for money.
Importing is a waste of diesel fuel even without any tariffs - if you have decent domestic production.
Looks like some elitist crap to me. Who the fuck buys the “best” especially in something like wine thats replete with elitist bullsit and nobbery to exagerate perceptions of scarcity and create an “investment”. its a fucking consumable.
99% of the people in France can get perfectly good French wine for a handful of euros without importing from USA.
Coudn’t give a fuck about the other 1%.
And those from the fucking UK apparently.
Very similar though - just waiting for them to elect farage to gut UK public services.
That’s a problem and I remember talking about it in the 2000s when everything started to become user friendlieness. plug and play, just works and so-on, worst part is stuff being locked down and harder to jailbreak.
It’ll be fine though, I’m sure AI will install their OS for them, I won’t have a clue how it did it, but it’ll probably be better than I could do.
You’ll just add “without backdoors” to the prompt and it’ll be secure too.
I agree, there’s a lot of people in this thread who seem to know exactly what is good or bad for a new user. But I don’t see many being sensitive to what the user might actually want to achieve. New users are not a homogeneous group.
If the user wants to both use (stably) and learn (break stuff) simultaneously, I’d suggest that they start on debian but have a second disk for a dual boot / experimentation. I don’t really use qemu much but maybe that’s a good alternative these days. But within that I’d say set them self the challenge of getting a working arch install from scrath - following the wiki. Not from the script or endeavourOS - I think those are for 4th/5th install arch users.
I find it hard to believe that I’d have learned as much if ubuntu was available when I started. But I did dual boot various things with DOS / windows for years - which gave something stable, plus more of a sandbox.
I think the only universal recommedation for. any user, any distro, is “figure ourt a decent backup policy, then try to stick to it”. If that means buy a cheap used backup pc, or raspberry pi and set it up for any tasks you depend on, then do that. and I’d probably pick debian on that system.
Not really, it generally worked in the end - so in fact it’s pretty great actually at getting you out of a hole.
It was just a load of extra steps - and usually a last resort after failing with whatever came on the installation disks. So morale had taken a few hits before you even started with it.
Everything is easier when you can connect to the network immediately.
Fair play to ubuntu (and i guess kernel improvements in early 2ks) - that was such a major step in ease of installation.
Bring back the good old days of ndiswrapper.
Can I get the icon in cornflower blue? https://youtu.be/4NomQYQK1bE
I think your comment has appeared in the wrong the wrong musk thread. This one is about takeover of us treasury.
I think cyberducks is here: https://lemmy.world/post/25080532
Is it a dictatorship?
I didn’t think the president’s role was designed to have absolute power over all branches of government - but maybe I don’t really understand the us govt system.
It depends what packages you need, and what they have to interact with.
If it’s all standalone then no problem until the hardware degrades.
For example I had laptop (DOS/Win98 ) with a pcmcia network adapter with BNC 50 ohm coax network dongle, 9/25 pin serial/parallell ports, maybe p/s2 port, floppy drive and so on.
I can’t think what I’d connect that to I might have a parallell port on my PC, but on that laptop I think I only had laplink so I’d need a linux app to interact with that. I do still hve a floppy drive somewhere, but how to connect that to my motherboard?
So I’d probably be limited to keyboard and trackball input, and audio + (monochrome) video output.
lemmings on black and white, blurry, slow refresh rate would still “work” unless the hdd got corrupted.
Within a lifetime current gen wifi, usb, ethernet etc may all be as rare as 9 pin serial is today - it’s still around of course, but you cant rely on it.
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Werner von Braun?
Laptops run off batteries a lot of the time - so compromising outright performance - full instruction set - for battery life will be attractive for many laptop users who use it on the go.
I’m no apple fanatic, I’d never get one, but I do see the appeal of those apple laptops.
I’m sure x86 could get closer on the performance to battery tradeoff if they wanted to; but I bet they’d be looking to price up at the apple level for that.