Interestingly this is how it started out here. You bought fire insurance and were protected by a fire company. I want to say it was one of Franklin’s things that established the first public fire company in Philadelphia, but this is a forum so if I’m wrong I know I’ll be corrected!

We still have a lot of groups, at least in the northeast, that refer to themselves as companies, though it’s used more like an army company or battalion and less like a for-profit endeavor.

I had a friend back in the day that was a big Linux geek. He got me hooked when he showed me this crazy system that let me just type in a command and within a few minutes or an hour (internet wasn’t super fast in my house in 2002), I could have something installed without having to search the internet for some potentially cooked installer.

That’s the long way around to say I started with Gentoo, installed over the course of 3 long Saturdays with my friend over my shoulder and the install guide printed out on a stack of papers because neither of us had a laptop to look at.

I moved to Debian after a few months, but man portage was life changing.

Oh I actually know how to beat this one. “I do not recall.” “Fifth.” “What is that? This is the first I’m hearing of it.”

Am I doing it right, Shitler?

DistroTube has a similar project going as well, DTOS. I’m not sure if it’s actually up and available but it looks promising for a similar target audience. https://youtu.be/FA__ScVhGQA

I’m not actually confident he does know that, to be honest.

The cynic in me knows that since it would be only D’s going down there, the fascists would use their absence to cram some shit through. The smart play would be to send only congresspeople and keep the senators here to make sure that nothing Mike LovesJohnson slides up can pass filibuster and get to the Diet Coke Desk.

And water

But was also the most UnFAir trade Deal EvURrrR

ETA: according to Shitler himself

More than happy to help! Let me know if I can answer any other questions for you

Same. I wish I had better choices available but we’ve got to work with what we’ve got.

I like Lemmy better. There’s a lot more effort to have value when you post and have conversations rather than arguments.

But the porn collection over here isn’t great yet.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any dumber. Is there no bottom they won’t race to?

Same. And my bank account is better off without them. Gods know we’ll need whatever help we can get.

My daughter has a gymnastics class one night a week and there’s nowhere for parents inside the building so we’re expected to sit in our cars. Instead of using the gas to keep the heat on, I go to Target to take a dump and walk laps. Even my wife, one of the whitest women I know, has stopped shopping there.

Yes, but also to sue one must be able to prove injury. I don’t know much about this group, but it is possible they hadn’t been injured yet. Or that, knowing this was coming, they built their case months ago and have been waiting until this drops to do anything.

Not saying they’re at all worthy of trust, anyone on that side of the aisle isn’t, but the case would be tossed immediately if they sued before he took this action.

I guess the /s wasn’t as blatant as I thought it was

But really, from Canada’s perspective, it is free market choice. The products have a price that they’re not willing to pay, be it fiscal or idealogical, so they’ve opted to not buy them. It sucks for the sellers in the States who have relied on Canadian sales, it sucks for the Canadians who don’t have the same access to products they want from the US, and it sucks for all of us little people who have to pay an additional 200% tax on medical equipment because it has pieces which can only be made on highly specialized machines in Japan. All because of an amphetamine-addled, semi literate, profoundly incontinent Neo Nazi.

The only winners in this game are the ones that are high enough above the waterline that they’ll weather the flood, the rest of us are headed down the drain.

Super valid points. Cortisol is one heluva drug.

I play on Arch with no issues. There’s a lot of guides with varying degrees of value and required skill, but I’ve found that easy mode is set it up is to run the program called Bottles and follow the wizard to set up the container and install all of the dependencies. It’s all automated.

There’s a little bit of jank when it comes to signing into Battle.net the first time, but after that it’s smooth. I’m all AMD in this build, but not super high end stuff and I manage 90+ fps with almost every detail setting maxed. There was a memory leak when I zone via teleport to anywhere in TWW, but I haven’t played since the last point release so I’m not sure if they’ve fixed it.

A little bit more than two cents, opinions on your list of distros:

Bazzite/Nobara: solid choices, but my experience is really limited with them. Atomic distros are really cool for any situation where you want to safeguard the critical system software from a user–enterprise, your grandma, your Minecraft nephew, etc. - - Nobara is maintained by Glorious Eggroll, a Fedora (or RH? can’t remember rn) dev who’s been critical to the rise of Linux gaming in the past few years. Look up Proton-GE, it can’t be overstated how important the work he’s done, free and on his own time, has been for Linux gamers.

Drauger: maybe someone else can weigh in on this one as I don’t have any experience. Looks like any other Ubuntu spin with a theme and some “gamer” apps pre-installed. Any time I see that, I prefer to just to back to it’s parent since I can just install anything it has on my own.

Pop! _OS: Cosmic desktop is pretty cool looking, but I prefer KDE. Very very small amount of experience here (maybe like 5 hours on my laptop before I jumped), but it seemed pretty good. Most of my drivers, including touch panel, worked right out of the box and Cosmic is cool. Not for me, but like I said, in this case I’d probably just go upstream to Ubuntu instead as I prefer KDE.

SteamOS Debian: bad idea. That project is not the same as what’s on the Deck (which is Arch based) and hasn’t been updated for several years. Not worth the headache, and you won’t get anything more than installing Debian and Steam aside from security issues. If you want the StramOS experience on something that isn’t a Steam Deck, Bazzite and Nobara are much better choices. Or even CachyOS, if you want to stay Arch-based.

Manjaro: Not a fan, at all. They claim to be Arch-based, but are more accurately described as Arch-related. Others are less willing to ignore the personalities associated with the Manjaro team, but I don’t really care about that. Whet matters to me is that they usurp, for lack of a better descriptor, the Arch repos for their own, which are not kept up to date with the same rigor. I’ve had system updates crash apps or nuke my system because of the mismatched revs of different pieces of system software causing issues. Plus there’s another middleman to worry about in the way of the dev and me. In Ubuntu’s case I let it slide because Canonical have a great track record with pre-release testing… Manjaro not so much.

I’d say that if you’re looking into Arch but aren’t confident in being able to go through the install, read up on the Archinstall script. Or check out Endeavors, you’ll get Arch with a graphical installer called Calamares. The installer defaults to installing their branding and a couple of QoL apps, but you can prohibit that by unchecking one box in Calamares.

Ubuntu: a great jumping off point for anyone looking to get into Linux. They’ve got spins pre-configured for pretty much all of the mainstream DEs, including some that are almost identical in day to day function as Windows. Based on the rock solid-est distro, Debian, with a ton of resources that go into dev and testing. My go-to recommendations for newbies when I can’t be present to troubleshoot things for them during/after installing.

Mint: all of the benefits of Ubuntu, plus out of the box proprietary software. Nice if you want an even more polished out of the box experience than Ubuntu. Again, they get a pass on the extra software they bundle in because it’s all been tested to hell.

Other notes: I run Arch, not because I feel like it’s a flex, but because I like rolling release models better than incremental ones. I don’t like waiting for stuff if I don’t have to, but I don’t install anything too wild either. I also don’t like reinstalling my system when a big update comes out… not an issue often these days, but it wasn’t atypical when I switched over a decade ago. Worthwhile to mention there are rolling release model flavors of the distros above: Linux Mint Debian Edition, Rolling Rhino (Ubuntu-based with a heavily customized XFCE interface), plus OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Debian Sid (close enough at least).

Incremental releases are nice too, because every once in a while (1-2 times a year, normally like October and April, or a little bit later), Ubuntu releases a big update. Usually that just means a lot of neat new functionality and stability. If you’re cool with it, there’s nothing wrong with that, but you’ll often be behind on a lot of software, which can be frustrating when you’re at the “I know this mouse lag bug is fixed in the new version of blueZ but it’s not going to be in the repo for 3 more months…” stage. There’s also the potential of nuking your system on a major update, or just losing personalization you may have put dozens of hours into.

I know this is petty, but I don’t care. Why is it that these people always have the most generic, first-gen AI created names and the most fucked up faces? I know fascism doesn’t inherently attract the best, brightest, and most interesting but come on. It’s like they just hit random on the Oblivion character creator and said “Brooke Rollins with the fivehead? Looks good to me!”

Free market baby!