I’ll add my own anecdote since I installed CachyOS a few weeks ago and have used it daily since. Have some experience with Linux Mint from before, but in the past few years I’ve almost exclusively used Windows.

For me, everything worked with default settings out the box, but I did see the wiki specifically mention “use btrfs if it works, if not, use…”. I even got my *arr stack and Jellyfin up and running relatively painlessly. And some games and programs not made for Arch/Linux.

The thing is I say relatively painlessly, but some of them involved a day of tinkering, diving into the Cachy and Arch wiki pages, etc. I’m fine with that, I find it fun. It’s the price you pay for wanting the benefits of the distro (performance, customisability, etc). And I was very clearly warned going into it, which TBF almost made me not go with an Arch-based distro.

So yeah, they are made a bit painful to use on purpose. Or rather, it’s a side effect of the core philosophies. It’s not for everyone, but it does cater to specific groups, and I think that is good. Kinda like how not every fediverse instance is for everyone (see also: Mastodon vs Lemmy vs Piefed)

I would still without a doubt recommend Linux Mint if someone wants an easy and painless experience after Windows. Heck, because of apt it’s even easier than Windows a lot of the time. And for the stuff that doesn’t work, it’ll happen if Linux gets more traction. Sadly we’re just not there yet.

(Though apparently the main thing out of everything I use in work and outside of it, it’s damned Xbox controllers that I have yet to get around to making function)

Not OP, but I’ll answer from my own perspective. Note that Discord terminology can be a bit weird, since a server is just a unique shared group space, but hopefully makes sense.

So you can:

• Have private chats with one or multiple individuals.
• Start audio or video calls through those chats, and screen share/stream in them.
• I’ll also mention the ability to send not just text, but images, videos, embedded GIFs, files, so on.
• in servers you get the same thing, broken into text and voice channels (the latter allowing the full range of audio, video, and screen share).
• in servers each user can be given roles to determine which channels they can see and use, or edit, among various other permissions.
• Pinned messages, @ mentions for roles.
• Though I don’t use it much anymore, the option to effectively subscribe to a channel on another server to have messages from there propagate over (e.g.: a uni club server announces an event and you see it on another server in an events channel)
• also servers don’t have any upper limits on members, at least not one I’ve ever seen hit
• Bot integration via API.
• oh, also it all works on desktop or mobile (because it’s mostly just a web app, but still)

And key thing is: all very easy to get started with, whether you’re just wanting to join a server, or start an entire community.

Big deal for my uses currently is voice chat and screen share in one place, while still being able to organise stuff into separate channels, pin messages in them, etc.

I think right now if I had to replace it, assuming I could get the people I interact with off (which is either 20 or 1500 people, depending on how much I’d want to carry with me), it’d have to be a mix of Matrix/Stoat and probably Steam’s built-in features. Maybe a classic forum. That is, if I wanted to have all the features I use. I could do with less, but it’s frustrating.

I think the alternatives will get there eventually, self-hosted even, but self-hosting also has a hardware cost.

That said, I really don’t know why software stuff was ever moved on discord. My uses are gaming and university community-related.

Unfortunately it seems very much a mixed bag. For some the more recent patches did a lot, for others they broke things.

(Sadly on Windows) The same happened to me. Decent performance around release, later updates messed it all up. That said I think the latest update did make it run better than ever on my machine, but obviously YMMV.

I do think they’re working on it, they just seem to be lost? It should be a big deal for Capcom if Monster Hunter loses popularity due to performance.

It’s only fair the logs (or Ewoks) also get the Warhammer treatment.

Some potential options:

• strap some propulsion on the ends of the logs
  • upgrade to warp drives to use them against space vessels
• the logs are tougher than any metal and heavier to boot
• warp fuckery means the logs ignore armour or directly affect the people inside in some way (feel free to add chaos god shenanigans)
• Ewoks believe the logs will work and they have the numbers to affect reality
• the logs just hold the walker for the split second it takes to get swarmed by Ewoks or otherwise dealt with
• the logs explode
• Ewoks are all force users now

Though let’s be honest: even with all that, the Ewoks probably would’ve been one of the countless species wiped out during the Great Crusade. 40k does have some argument for having only the most over the top shit existing.

Nobody was proposing taking land from them though.

I mean just the Peel Commission on its own was abandoned because it would have required displacing a large number of Arabs. Palestine was 3% Jewish in 1917. You can see why a 20-80 split could be a problem.

Scepticism is a good thing but this information is just basic history and is freely available on Wikipedia and other sources.

I agree. My issue was with your original link. I mentioned the Balfour Declaration because it’s a pretty good starting point on Wikipedia that I had read myself.

memes on social media like the OP that present a totally made up version of history in order to promote a political agenda

To me, OP’s post reads as a political cartoon that captures sentiment at the current moment. Not to mention the part where Palestine wasn’t given/offered independent statehood during the creation of Israel, so in some ways that is true as well.

Also none of that really changes the fact that Palestine finally getting statehood when most of its land is lost and its people are victims of an ongoing genocide seems far too late. Whether the people who represented Palestine in the past shoulder some blame for not making concessions is an interesting conversation, but it doesn’t matter much for the message OP is conveying in my opinion.

But again, I’m no historian. I’m not even someone who has enough time to really research this and present a properly informed opinion. Just some random guy who thought your original link seemed pretty superficial and biased.

Well that’s kinda missing the context of the Balfour Declaration, especially within the larger historical framework of the First World War, the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, and the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

That was pretty recent history for the first offer in your link. I’m not exactly surprised Palestinians wanted all their land back at the time.

Couple sources would also do that magazine a favour. Not that I’d trust it anyway with that tone of writing and being so brief about complex geopolitical history. At least include who did the rejection and with what reasoning.

I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on the topic and all. I just happened to come in here from c/all and thought I might learn something interesting from your link, but it really seems like it’s missing too much for that.