Mordikan

Maybe something like Comparison, but you have to understand everything can be changed. So, Just because you have KDE, doesn’t mean you have to stick with Dolphin for files management, etc. Window managers are even more free form. You don’t get a file manager, or image viewer, or text editor. You get a window manager. You can use whatever you want to install though. You also have floating vs tiled windows.

You might just look through screenshots in Google Images and see what looks good to you and then install that.

That’s a fair point. Others could be installed via pacman or apt, but if the user is wanting out of the box, then that’s true. I think 6.8 does support 9070xt, but the safest and probably simplest opinion is Bazzite like you said.

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Wayland support differs between their display managers (GDM and SDDM). Outside of that and a few other low levels things that you probably wouldn’t care about, it is mostly just flavoring.

And understand that its not a choice just between those two DEs. There are many others that you can use (ex. mate, cinnamon, etc), and even just window managers (ex. i3wm, hyprland, openbox, etc) you can mix and match with many other file managers,etc.

You got your cheeks clapped in an argument and now you’re trying to downplay it. 👏 👏 👏

No, it wasn’t chess. It was me spanking you logically, pigeon.

That is correct. You argued that a blank line counts as part of your original argument… I am playing chess with a pigeon it seems.

“Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it won.”

Remember me saying you’re arguing semantics? You are now trying to argue that you wrote 4 lines not 3 because of a blank line…

1. Would I not pay my roofer if they were a Rump supporter?
2. They did a good job on my roof. What do their political opinions matter?
3. If I was XRaying your broken arm, would you refuse, because I support a tankie for writing apolitical software I like to use?

1… 2… 3… See, in Lemmy the comments are attached under the post. That’s how you know what a person is responding to.

I noticed some comments saying “You can’t pirate free software”. I would take that as a challenge, so here’s how to pirate Lemmy.

Firstly, “free” software is extremely rare. Lemmy isn’t free, its governed by the AGPLv3. Per the AGPLv3, if you pull the author attribution/licensing text, say “I made this” , and start distributing it out, you’ve committed copyright infringement and illegally distributed it (piracy). So, that means we CAN pirate Lemmy:

1. Fork the existing Lemmy repo into our own project
2. Remove all reference to the original authors and licensing and put your own name on it.
3. Change the name to something else and start sharing it out.
4. Optionally charge money for it

NOTE: Never let someone tell you that you can’t do something.

I didn’t skim. You only wrote 3 lines…

At this point you’re just trying to argue semantics like that will somehow make your non-points logically coherent. As for that last thing you wrote that you said you didn’t write, its verbatim from your later comment. so yeah you did say that. Literally just had to scroll up to find it, man. That wasn’t hard.

Either way, doesn’t matter. You’re just backpedaling at this point trying to say you either didn’t say something or argue that I’m wrong because your analogies don’t make sense (like I’m responsible for your bad writing). I’ve given you terms to research, I hope you do better when you try to start arguments online in the future because you did a terrible job tonight. Later.

I’m not sure why you’d be struggling with this, honestly. You understand the proxy relationships you created in your weird one-offs right?

“Don’t set my bones, Dr. Steve donated to X” is not the same as “I don’t want to donate to X”. You inserted yourself in the middle of it and then claimed in a life threatening situation he wouldn’t have an issue giving you money. You are not the tankie. You don’t matter in the OP’s decision regarding donations to the tankie. The roofers don’t matter in the OP’s decision regarding donations to the tankie. The tankie is the only one who matters in that scenario, it doesn’t matter who you inject between them as a shield.

You might read about the separation of roles and responsibility. That’s not ignoring the point, its proving you have no point to be made.

As for your other comment: You said you wouldn’t engage positively with someone you disagree with like the OP, but yet the OP is required according to you to engage positively with the developer who he disagrees with? If the OP can’t post about the dev in that way, why are you able to post about the OP in that way?

If you still struggle with that, I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe look up “hypocrisy”?

The acceptance of medical care is not an equivalent situation to using free software in terms of ideological concerns. That’s conflating a social media platform with being as necessary as medical treatment. Even the roofing situation wouldn’t fit as the work is complete and they can’t exactly undone that work without destroying part of your existing house now and they certainly aren’t based on optional donation are they? I mean I assume you contracted to have them do that work, right? So that wouldn’t be a valid comparison to make either. Is Lemmy equally as important as blood poisoning or having a home to you?

The other glaring issue you didn’t consider is agent vs. artifact. In neither case is the actual person performing the service (roofer or doctor) the one being criticized for holding the tankie views. By that logic, you wouldn’t be able to interact with anyone who is apathetic about an issue/belief/etc you are not. A working example of that would you you posting to a forum post by the OP who has different views. You shouldn’t be interacting with him if you actually believed what you wrote.

Is Invidious still working? After the latest round of API patches on Youtube’s end, I didn’t think it was.

In a round about way, that does fix the problem you have, though. Just randomly changing things or installing/uninstalling packages until the whole OS is borked and you have to reinstall thereby clearing the problem.

Doesn’t teach how to fix the problem, but at least they’ll get real proficient with setting up new system partitions.

I think Arch is so popular because its considered a middle of the road distro. Even if not exactly true, Ubuntu is seen as more of a pre-packaged distro. Arch would be more al a carte with what you are actually running. I started with Slackware back in the day when everything was a lot more complicated to get setup, and there was even then this notation that ease of access and customization were separate and you can’t have both. Either the OS controls everything and its easy or you control everything and its hard. To some extent that’s always going to be true, but there’s no reason you can’t or shouldn’t try to strike a balance between the two. I think Arch fits nicely into that space.

I also wouldn’t use the term “cultists” as much as “aholes”. If you’ve ever been on the Arch forums you know what I’m talking about. There is a certain kind of dickish behavior that occurs there, but it somewhat is understandable. A lot of problems are vaguely posted (several times over) with no backing logs or info to determine anything. Just “Something just happened. Tell me how to fix it?”. And on top of that, those asking for help refuse to read the wiki or participate in the problem solving. They just want an online PC repair shop basically.

Then there is no reason for a VPN or I2P.

That is technically true with things like glibc, but I’ve never seen a system that did not already include baseline packages.

I like the sandboxing of Flatpak, but I prefer AppImage as I don’t like having the Flatpak runtime requirement.

Almost every laptop I’ve owned in the past 15 years has been this way. Just an old machine people wanted to discard because of viruses or crap performance. They’d give their “junk” to me and go buy a new laptop. After swapping it to linux with a few tweaks here and there, I swear that “junk” would outperform the new one they dropped all the money on.