This. (although I follow the directions here, which is a little more than apt install). The only thing I couldn’t get on Debian stable is the latest gnome. But when I tried debian testing, it was slightly broken anyway. And gnome extensions could get most of the functionality missing in my older gnome version. Debian stable + flatpak + anaconda + adding repositories (like for firefox) is a perfect compromise.

What’s nice about a stable distro is you can update the things you want to update, and your OS isn’t constantly changing a million packages a week that you don’t even know the function of.

Gotta wonder how many state actors have been using it for years.

An anarchist would take off the capitalist mask to reveal hierarchy

Oh right, sometimes I forget people have computers other than old thinkpads

IDK if thats true in 2024. Debian 12 isn’t much harder to setup than mint or Ubuntu, and the version of gnome it ships with is perfectly fine. I’m not a beginner anymore, so maybe there’s something I glossed over.

Oh wait, I just remembered the thing I glossed over. Needing to install sudo would definitely throw a beginner for a loop. (Iirc, you only need to do that if you give a root password during install). And that’s the problem with trying to learn Linux. Someone will tell you the thing is easy, but they forgot about some arcane step

Pipepipe is pretty good on F-droid, although Idk how it compares

We got boomers on Lemmy now?

fuck.

Are we sure this isn’t everyone?

I think you mean like Peru and Chile told Bolivia,

no.

The problem with the cli is you need to memorize a whole bunch of new words and syntax in order to do anything. You also need to memorize what not to do so you don’t accidentally erase your system while using rm or cp or whatever.

Even something as simple as copying and pasting, which works the same in every single other program has new rules in the terminal. I mean, think about that. If you’re just learning bash, then the first thing you’ll be doing is copy pasting commands. But even that has the hurdle of 'oh, I guess this is the one program where ctrl-c means something else

Like, how do you look at sudo, cat, man, and apt, and think ‘yeah that’s intuitive’. And forget about multitasking, new users won’t even know how to quit most programs (is it ctrl-q? Just q? Esc? Ctrl-c? Ctrl-d? Wait how do I undo that, is it ctrl-z? Wait where did the thing go

I’ve tried to run Ubuntu, mint, Debian, and couple other distros without the terminal to see if I can actually recommend it to non-geeks. And every time, I conclude I can’t because the fucking “software center” (or whatever it’s called) is always garbage, and it’s easier to just use apt.

The only time I’ll recommend Linux to a non-tech person is when the hardware is so old that it would just be junked without Linux.

But also not so close that I have no time to mentally and physically prepare

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Like, does anyone actually expect any countries with significant global influence to line up behind *Hamas*?

Do you seriously think WWI happened because countries “lined up behind” Gavrilo Princip?

My Thinkpad touchscreens were useless until I switched to wayland.

The only drawback is I have to manually edit the qgis desktop file to start qgis with x11 instead of Wayland. I had to do the same to a couple other random experimental apps, too.

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Trade routes predate capitalism by many thousands of years. People travel. They trade. They exchange ideas and goods. Communist countries have (almost) always sought to participate in the world economy. Its always been the capitalists who shut down all peaceful avenues for cooperation.

So does communism require a capitalist big brother? No. But every single country exists in a geopolitical context. When the behemoth economic and military superpower 90 miles away spends over half a century trying to destabilize your island nation that was already dependent on imports… It’s gonna cause some problems.

Also, just compare Cuba to its peers in the Caribbean and latinam. It does better in some areas, it does worse in others. It’s not an outlier in anything, except like medical science where it’s always been a leader in latam. The areas where it does worse are usually directly related to the blockade

This would’ve saved me so much pain if I knew this when starting Linux. Sooo much pain