It's mainly individualism that makes them unable to imagine a less wasteful world i think. Even without capitalism many individualist westerners struggle to imagine a more communal society. It's just so foreign to them.

For example something simple like clothing. It's common in the US for people to own tons of clothes they barely ever wear. Then they need space to store all those clothes, and usually dont bother to repair them, or take care of them properly so they don't last as long. If instead you had communal areas. Where there were tons of clothes curated and taken care of by professional cleaners and weavers. People could go to them, and pick some stuff out. Keep maybe 7-10 outifts at home, and just switch stuff out with the communal clothing pool when needed. The clothes would last longer, and you'd have a larger functional pool of options if you wanted to try something new, and overall the community would use way less fabric to maintain their outfits.

But a lot of westerners look at something like that and think "ew i have to share clothes with other people?" and entirely ignore the upsides.

Same with things like every home having its own full kitchen vs just having communal kitchens with maybe a hot plate, microwave, and rice cooker at home for snacking. And having meals like breakfast/lunch/dinner made for the whole community and eaten together in a communal eating area. It's not even just resources that are done better with this. Like imagine how easy it would be to have a nutritionally balanced diet if you had community meal planning. And the effects on community health that would have. And how much it would help people with disablilites who stuggle to make meals for themselves. Or even how it could help elderly people who have retired stay connected to their communities, and even give them something to do if they want to come help out with meals. Most grandmas i know would thrive in a place like that. Getting to have meals with everyone, and show off the recipes they learned over the years would enrich their lives a ton.

This stuff isn't like a new idea either. It's how many towns and villages functioned for centuries. It works. It just doesn't maximize profits.

I'd partly like such a place. I'd totally despise the social part of it though, as I despise people and having to deal with them.

But as with clothes, yes. I'm a "westerner" with more money than I could ever spend, yet only own like 3 or 4 outfits. And all were used. I don't like fancy brand shit. And I do care for my stuff.
So there are exception s 😁

Honestly i think a big reason a lot of people don't like social interaction these days is because of how isolating the culture is. Like if everyone's got no practice socializing its not gonna be pleasant to have a bunch of socially awkward and maladjusted people trying to spend time together.

I think if you had a society like this, and gave it maybe a few months to a year people would relearn their social skills, build relationships, and generally be a lot happier spending time with others.

Also to be clear as to your stuff i don't think it's a bad thing to have your own personal property and things that are just yours. It's just a lot of the time we kinda just are forced to have stuff we only use every now and then. Like take a lawn mower for example. There is no need for everyone to have their own when we could all just share one. Unless for some reason you just really wanted one i guess lol.

I'd envision it more like an optional thing. Like sure you can get your own entire wardrobe if you want to i guess, but if you don't really care to then you just use the community clothing and don't have to waste your money on stuff you don't even really want to buy. Same with any communal resource. It's there if you want/need it, but it's always an option to just ignore it too.

The rampant mental illness in the USA really does make this a negative feedback loop. I'd say a quarter of the roommates I've had over the years had some serious mental issues. I've had a knife pulled on me, a friend of mine was murdered by his roommate.

After you have a few bad experiences like that the goal becomes to get a small family together and isolate as soon as possible. Any commune here is basically assumed to be a religious cult because nothing else makes sense.

Haven't heard of Lingmo but I'd say the same ui style is achievable in any OS using gnome with theme and dash to dock.

Go for something like Debian or Fedora and theme it.

Some looking around suggests that the distro is just over 6 months old or so.

Even if it does literally everything right, longevity is only tested with the passing of time. To exemplify this, let's go back in time... Relatively short after I made the switch to Linux, there was a lot of buzz around risiOS. Unfortunately, it didn't take long until this exciting new project stopped receiving any further development. And, as far as I can tell, .

The above example ain't unique, though. Heck, I'd argue that the coming and passing of projects is the expected pattern. The projects that remain relevant and continue to receive development are the actual anomalies.

All of which is just to say that it's (almost) ill-advised to prefer a new project over a well-established one. Only after a (relatively) new project receives mass adoption, like what we currently see with Bazzite and CachyOS, does it become somewhat of a safe bet. Even if only for the foreseeable future*. Until then, you're at the mercy of the whims and continued interest of a single developer (or a very small team).

Going back to Lingmo OS itself, I suppose its main appeal lies within its unique aesthetics. I'm especially fond of their macOS-like global menu found within its top bar. The now-defunct CutefishOS also had something similar going on... Which brings us back to our earlier point on longevity. Aight, verdict: honestly, I don't think it's necessarily more aesthetically pleasing than say GNOME or KDE Plasma. At least to me*. As such, I understand that I'm not the target audience. Nor do I think that you or anyone else should be swayed by this (or similar projects) on aesthetics alone.

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The commit says something about something being “unsigned.” I suspect that means the LibreWolf artifact is unsigned, so they can’t verify its integrity.
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The same thing just happened to Chromium:
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Edit to add: Perhaps this was done in error, and perhaps it’s related to this issue: Autobump restrictions make opening PRs with bump-cask-pr overly complicated

Autobump restrictions make opening PRs with `bump-cask-pr` overly complicated

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If its solely for setting up a wireguard server, it doesn't need to be rolling release. Nothing should really need changing.

1. Alpine Linux due to it being lightweight and hardened
2. Arch Linux due to it being lightweight and fast
3. Rocky 9 due to HAProxy in case you decide to turn this into a DIY datacenter 😀

Anything with docker set up OOTB, like Flatcar Linux

And a good docker container like: WG-Easy

Flatcar Container Linux

Container Linux

^Flatcar

As said by @iii@mander.xyz, bog standard Debian Stable.

You really don’t want a rolling release distro for something like this - major software updates might change the behavior of your software, break your configs,
etcetera. Stable distros do as much as they can to make sure that software behaves the same, only porting security fixes.

This way, you don’t really have to touch it except for updates with a nearly nonexistent chance of going wrong (and there’s stuff like unattended-upgrades so updates are automatic) and major upgrades.

You can go several years without a major upgrade just fine - Debian versions are supported for 5 years, and we’re only a few days from getting Trixie, which will last into 2030. New versions come out every two years, and it’s not that hard to upgrade between consecutive ones; I don’t think sitting down on a weekend every two years is that bad.

I kind of hate Ubuntu, but it’s pretty based in this case due to really long support. This might be a really great case for Rocky Linux though, as it also gets 10 years support.

Downvoted for slop.

Do better.