I like them as an option, there are some programs like Bottles or specific game launchers that work under flatpak better than the versions available via native package manager (with Bottles in particular, you can use various built-in sandbox features via flatpak which makes things a bit more secure), but it’s also a bit of a pain because it’s an additional package manager you have to update separately now, or tweak if things go wrong.

I mean, even this kind of argument doesn’t really work in reality. We already live in “hell on earth”, and via electorialism usually two choices are given: the progressive “nothing ever happens” option (so your socdems, democrats, you’ll be lucky to get a good policy or two but no real change to the status quo) or “literally hitler” option, maybe some parties that stand in the middle of the spectrum if the country is “advanced” enough.

In other words, via electorialism you can either preserve the hell on earth or make it worse, and the process of voting legitimizes this status quo as it’s what “people have decided” rather than who the ruling class cast as candidates, who had the most money and media influence for campaigning.

It’s important to see electorialism for what it truly is.

socialist candidate

looks inside

another socdem

Think the billionaire is safe, even more so considering the proposed pro-business policies by the candidate

Critical support to imperialist conflict

I think it’s actually quite a good thing to acknowledge that climate change isn’t going to be prevented, only mitigated in the far future if we decarbonized today and that we’ll have to live through hell regardless, unless some magical solution is found. This kind of rhetoric could actually be really useful and directed towards the minimization of damage like creation of essential goods for use rather than profit, focus on relief methods, start cutting back on emissions to shorten the amount of years future generations will have to suffer through - that kind of stuff.

But of course, the liberals and conservatives in power (likes the ones mentioned in the article) instead pivot towards nationalist brainrot-fuelled defeatism just so companies can continue making profit unimpeded and “bring wealth to the nation”. This is where I would say that it’s the perfect opportunity for people to realize who the true enemies are, that relying on “good” rich and powerful people to fix problems isn’t a solution and more of a facade, and to actually rise up and bring up actual internationalism/international change against an upcoming catastrophe, but seeing the resistances worldwide and how mild they are, there’s no shot this is going to happen unless we all somehow collectively escape the media machine and narratives we grew up with and actually examine the world around us for what it is, rather than thinking in “natural” abstractions we were/are being fed.

Sorry for the rant, but as someone who’s still pretty young, seeing the upcoming catastrophe and it not being taken with the seriousness it really deserves by the people who currently are in a position to change things is sickening.

Usually with Linux, once you start out you’re gonna get a ton of issues and you’ll have to troubleshoot them one by one. However, afterwards it should just be a smooth sailing.

Also as a word of warning from my personal experience, official support isn’t something you should be that concerned about. When it comes to software, when some corporation makes some official version for a specific distribution (like Ubuntu), it usually is made by some B-team and doesn’t work that great. If the program is good, it should be available on most major distros rather than just “an official version for just one” if that makes sense.

Also good call - if one distro is causing a fuck ton of issues, just give another one a try. The main difference for users between distros is what kind of software setup they are going with, and some setups are just prone to issues on some hardware or wasn’t tested properly. Still, I do hope Fedora treats you better.

There are some setups that allow you to do this.

• nixOS or nix + home-manager on some other distro, but it’s a high skill-floor way to manage a computer so wouldn’t recommend

• window manager heavy setup where you just set it up then copy over the config files to the new install, a bit of a pain to first customize but viable if you’re willing to ditch mouse-heavy desktop experience in favor for keyboard and shortcut focus to control everything.

Apart from those two cases, not really.

use your phone to look up the commands on how to get internet working again

alternatively, connect computer to your router via cable

you don’t need to remember anything, except commands you use the most often but even then it becomes muscle memory after a while. If you ever need some specific command to use, just look it up online.

Yes please - whenever some out of touch figure or a news page tries to offer condolences or condemn the alleged assassin, it backfires spectacularly no matter what the political leaning of the audience is. It’s literally the only thing that unites working class people in Burgerland

Even though it’s too early to say, I wonder what the future would have held for US Democrats if Kamala were to win the election. Would they have learned that going right is the correct call?

What about a future where someone worse than Trump came up, someone who’s a religious fundamentalist with even higher support numbers due to constant billionaire-funded propaganda and radicalization in general, what would Democrats do then?

But maybe I’m too much of a pessimist.