Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month
Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now
One of the best gaming Linux OSes just shifted 1,000,000 GB of ISOs in a single month
That's a lot of downloading.Simon Batt (XDA)
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Inside Israel's shadow campaign to win over American media
Back in March 2011, the Israeli consulate in New York City had a problem. A group of soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were coming to the U.S. on a PR trip, and Israeli officials needed help persuading influential media outlets to interview the delegation.
Luckily for the consulate, a new organization called Act For Israel, led by Israeli-American actor Noa Tishby, was prepared to swing into action. “[I]n mid March 2011, the New York Consulate requested our assistance,” Tishby’s organization wrote in a document revealed in a recent trove of leaked emails.
“Act For Israel quickly arranged seven interviews with the top ranks of U.S. blogs and radio shows,” the document explained, highlighting that their efforts helped promote “Israel’s narrative” in Red State, which it described as the “most read blog by US Senators and Congress representatives.”
The previously unreported campaign appears to have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which mandates that American citizens and organizations publicly disclose any work that seeks to influence American politics on behalf of a foreign power. “That sounds like a slam-dunk case of activities that should have required FARA registration,” said Ben Freeman, a FARA expert at the Quincy Institute, which publishes RS.
The leak provides a rare window into how some pro-Israel activists have skirted rules aimed at providing transparency about foreign influence over American politics — a practice that has helped obscure the scale of Israeli propaganda efforts in the United States. In public, Act For Israel appeared to be no more than a group of pro-Israel Americans advocating for a stronger U.S.-Israel relationship. But the leaked emails and documents show that representatives of the organization sought to shape U.S. public opinion while boasting privately of their intimate collaboration with the Israeli government.
Inside Israel's shadow campaign to win over American media
Leaked emails show how Act for Israel, led by Noa Tishby, worked on behalf of Israel to advance its interests in the United StatesConnor Echols (Responsible Statecraft)
Inside Israel's shadow campaign to win over American media
Back in March 2011, the Israeli consulate in New York City had a problem. A group of soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were coming to the U.S. on a PR trip, and Israeli officials needed help persuading influential media outlets to interview the delegation.
Luckily for the consulate, a new organization called Act For Israel, led by Israeli-American actor Noa Tishby, was prepared to swing into action. “[I]n mid March 2011, the New York Consulate requested our assistance,” Tishby’s organization wrote in a document revealed in a recent trove of leaked emails.
“Act For Israel quickly arranged seven interviews with the top ranks of U.S. blogs and radio shows,” the document explained, highlighting that their efforts helped promote “Israel’s narrative” in Red State, which it described as the “most read blog by US Senators and Congress representatives.”
The previously unreported campaign appears to have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which mandates that American citizens and organizations publicly disclose any work that seeks to influence American politics on behalf of a foreign power. “That sounds like a slam-dunk case of activities that should have required FARA registration,” said Ben Freeman, a FARA expert at the Quincy Institute, which publishes RS.
The leak provides a rare window into how some pro-Israel activists have skirted rules aimed at providing transparency about foreign influence over American politics — a practice that has helped obscure the scale of Israeli propaganda efforts in the United States. In public, Act For Israel appeared to be no more than a group of pro-Israel Americans advocating for a stronger U.S.-Israel relationship. But the leaked emails and documents show that representatives of the organization sought to shape U.S. public opinion while boasting privately of their intimate collaboration with the Israeli government.
Inside Israel's shadow campaign to win over American media
Leaked emails show how Act for Israel, led by Noa Tishby, worked on behalf of Israel to advance its interests in the United StatesConnor Echols (Responsible Statecraft)
Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing "Narco-Dictator" Convicted of Drug Trafficking
In a 26th floor courtroom overlooking Manhattan’s frigid winter skyline, dozens of immigrants sat in on the trial of their former president, the once untouchable symbol of a “narco-dictatorship” that reorganized of the government’s judicial, police, and military leadership to collude with drug traffickers.
It wasn’t Nicolás Maduro — though the Venezuelan president had likewise been indicted in the Southern District of New York. It was Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president who, as U.S. prosecutors said in their closing arguments in 2024, “paved a cocaine superhighway” to the United States. In a monthlong trial we covered from New York that winter, Hernández was convicted of three counts of drug trafficking and weapons charges, earning him a 45-year prison sentence.
Now, as B-52s plow the skies near Caracas and U.S. President Donald Trump announces the closure of Venezuelan airspace via social media, Hernández is poised to have his conviction erased. A key asset likely working in his favor is something Maduro pointedly lacks: a long-running allyship with the United States. Before his prosecution, Hernández spent years promoting Washington’s goals of militarization and migrant crackdowns as a friend of Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, and Trump.
Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing “Narco-Dictator” Convicted of Drug Trafficking
The pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, who served less than two years of a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking, comes as Trump threatens war on Venezuela over “narcoterrorism.”Jared Olson (The Intercept)
Nas Daily claims biggest threat facing Palestinians is 'fellow countrymen' in bizarre rant on LBC
Vlogger Nuseir Yassin, a Palestinian citizen of Israel commonly known as Nas Daily, has drawn widespread criticism after saying that “the worst thing for a Palestinian is not Israel, it is our fellow countrymen”, and describing the term genocide as “a very emotional, non-scientific word”.
When asked by Swarbrick whether he had experienced apartheid growing up in Israel, Yassin similarly dismissed the term as "bullshit", saying it "is not like South Africa".
He went on to claim that the UK is receiving "some of the most dangerous immigrants in the world". "They’re coming in the UK, setting up as a base to create essentially media to destabilise the Middle East," he continued.
Nas Daily claims biggest threat facing Palestinians is 'fellow countrymen' in bizarre rant on LBC
Vlogger Nuseir Yassin, a Palestinian citizen of Israel commonly known as Nas Daily, has drawn widespread criticism after saying that “the worst thing for a Palestinian is not Israel, it is our fellow countrymen”, and describing the term genocide as “…Ayah El-Khaldi (Middle East Eye)
Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
is now caught up with the collection on YouTube. From now on, new #videos from YouTube will be quickly loaded to #PeerTube as well. [The previous Cuddly.Tube channel will be taken down soon.]URL: peertube.wtf/c/cuba/_botb/_vid…
Also significant is the expansion of playlists. BotB produces a lot of videos, and it is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. I spent some time going through the collection and adding playlists.
If you set up a login on PeerTube.wtf, you could also develop and save your own private playlists. But logins are not necessary to browse videos on PeerTube.wtf.
One playlist that will probably get a lot of use is Cuba and #Palestine, which contains 17 videos.
When you get a chance, please check them out.
#LetCubaLive #EndTheEmbargo #Solidarity #FreePalestine
#politics #BellyOfTheBeast #Cuba #Gaza
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The Northeast Passage is becoming navigable and could rearrange world trade. While China and Russia are pushing ahead, Europe is threatening to miss the strategic opportunity in the far north.
Nordostpassage: China und Russland formen neue Route – Europa schaut zu
Die Nordostpassage wird schiffbar und könnte den Welthandel neu ordnen. Während China und Russland vorpreschen, droht Europa die strategische Chance im hohen Norden zu verpassen.Berliner Zeitung
US | State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/npr.org/2025…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Trump’s boat bombings: How the US has long used ‘double-tap’ strikes
‘Double strikes’ allegedly used on Venezuelan boats accused of trafficking drugs were also used extensively under the US’s Obama administration.
A double-tap strike essentially means carrying out two strikes on the same target – often wounding or killing medics and civilians who are coming to the aid of people harmed in the first attack. Here is more about how the United States has used such strikes throughout history.
The US is believed to be one of the main countries to have used double-tap strikes extensively in recent history. Here is a brief timeline of Washington’s alleged or confirmed use of double-tap strikes on various targets.
2025: Yemen
In April, the US conducted air strikes on the Ras Isa oil port in Yemen.
In a social media post, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the objective of these strikes was “to degrade the economic source of power of the Houthis, who continue to exploit and bring great pain upon their fellow countrymen”.
The strike killed at least 80 people and wounded another 150, according to the Hodeidah Health Office in Yemen. The Houthi-led government said that the strikes had been made on a civilian facility.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an American Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, said the US struck the site a second time – a “double tap” – just as first responders were arriving at the scene. The US has never confirmed this attack was a double tap.
2012: Pakistan
During the administration of US President Barack Obama, US missiles hit a tent in Zowi Sidgi, a remote village in North Waziristan, in July 2012, in what was described by people on the ground as a double strike. The US claimed it was targeting alleged al-Qaeda sanctuaries in the region.
According to Amnesty International’s Mustafa Qadri, who was speaking to the BBC at the time, a group of miners and woodcutters had gathered in the tent for dinner.
Moments after the first strike, when people had arrived to assist those who were hurt, a second US missile hit the same location, local people said. Eighteen people died in total in the two strikes.
2003 and 2004: Iraq
In 2004, US soldiers attacked the Fallujah mosque in the Al Anbar governorate of Iraq, claiming they were being fired upon. Afterwards, they shot at injured Iraqis inside the mosque.
NBC News correspondent Kevin Sites, who was embedded with the US military, reported that a US soldier had shot an unarmed, wounded Iraqi prisoner at the mosque. The next day, Sites filmed an American soldier shouting at Iraqis in the mosque, accusing them of pretending to be dead.
Footage from the mosque attack sparked controversy, prompting an investigation by the US military into whether a US soldier who shot a prisoner had acted in self-defence, legitimately fearing a surprise attack. Investigators found insufficient evidence to charge the soldier.
Trump’s boat bombings: How the US has long used ‘double-tap’ strikes
‘Double strikes’ allegedly used on Venezuelan boats accused of trafficking drugs were used extensively under Obama.Sarah Shamim (Al Jazeera)
Theoretical Physics with Generative AI
Theoretical Physics with Generative AI
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case.Steve Hsu (Information Processing - Steve Hsu)
Trump’s “Blue-Collar Boom” Is Over. The Charts Prove It.
Trump’s “Blue-Collar Boom” Is Over. The Charts Prove It.
AI panic is about white-collar jobs. Blue-collar workers are the ones quietly getting wiped out.Neil Zhu (Grumpy Chinese Guy)
Amazon keeps pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5
re:invent: The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years
Romania’s president admits country is corrupt
‘Romania is corrupt,’ country’s president admits in jaw-dropping confession
Nicușor Dan said it is wrong that “corrupt people give moral lessons on television.”Ewan Jones (Telewizja Polska S.A)
German economy in ‘deepest crisis’ of post-war era: industry group
German economy in ‘deepest crisis’ of post-war era: industry group
Germany’s economy is suffering its “deepest crisis” since the aftermath of World War II, an industry group warned Tuesday, calling on Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government to take urgent action to spark a revival.AFP Staff (CTVNews)
Apple announces even more major executive turnover
Apple and Meta are trading execs.
Apple announces even more major executive turnover
Apple announced that Lisa Jackson is going to retire and Jennifer Newstead will take over as general counsel from Kate Adams.Jay Peters (The Verge)
How do I check my router for malware?
I have a store bought consumer router connected to my ISP's router which is in bridge mode, and it's one of the few remaining proprietary mystery boxes in my network that I don't know how to audit. I recently made a post about whether I should switch to PFsense, and this was one of my motivations (though I forgot to mention it in that post).
Is there an effective way to check whether my router is part of a Mirai botnet or some other malware that scanned the internet and found some vulnerability in my router? As far as I know, once infected, things like updating the firmware or pressing the reset button aren't guaranteed to remove it because it can just take control of those processes and persist. In my specific configuration, can malware from the internet even see my main router or just the ISP router it's connected to?
In my threat model, I'm most concerned about my local traffic to and from my server being exfiltrated by some cybercrime group as a lot of it is HTTP or HTTP proxy data. Not so much general internet bound traffic which is usually HTTPS or VPN. Obviously I don't want to be "participating" in botnet attacks or other cybercrime infrastructure either.
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Why I use OPNsense over pfSense, and why I don't trust Netgate at all
Both platforms have their uses, but Netgate has a lot of controversial history.Adam Conway (XDA)
British police chief reiterates 'legitimate' decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
The head of a police force at the centre of a row over a ban on Israeli football fans has defended his decision in front of British MPs.
The West Midlands Police assessment which led to the ban was based on intelligence provided by Dutch police about the conduct of Maccabi fans during a match against Amsterdam in November 2024.
A Guardian report on 21 October said that the police assessment "concluded the biggest risk of violence came from extremist fans of the Israeli club".
Middle East Eye seperately revealed that Dutch police told their British counterparts that over 200 Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans who wreaked havoc in Amsterdam were "linked" to the Israeli military.
Documents seen by MEE said hundreds of fans were "experienced fighters", "highly organised" and "intent on causing serious violence". Dutch police reported that "significant numbers of Maccabi fans were actively involved in demonstrations and confrontations".
Early reporting by media outlets on the violence in Amsterdam in 2024 characterised the violence as a "pogrom" against Jewish football fans. Footage later emerged of Maccabi fans attacking locals and chanting racist slogans against Arabs.
Violence involving Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is not limited to matches outside of Israel. On 19 October, Israeli authorities in Tel Aviv cancelled the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv due to what police there described as "violent riots".
British police chief reiterates 'legitimate' decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
The head of a police force at the centre of a row over a ban on Israeli football fans has defended his decision in front of British MPs.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
British police chief reiterates 'legitimate' decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
The head of a police force at the centre of a row over a ban on Israeli football fans has defended his decision in front of British MPs.
The West Midlands Police assessment which led to the ban was based on intelligence provided by Dutch police about the conduct of Maccabi fans during a match against Amsterdam in November 2024.
A Guardian report on 21 October said that the police assessment "concluded the biggest risk of violence came from extremist fans of the Israeli club".
Middle East Eye seperately revealed that Dutch police told their British counterparts that over 200 Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans who wreaked havoc in Amsterdam were "linked" to the Israeli military.
Documents seen by MEE said hundreds of fans were "experienced fighters", "highly organised" and "intent on causing serious violence". Dutch police reported that "significant numbers of Maccabi fans were actively involved in demonstrations and confrontations".
Early reporting by media outlets on the violence in Amsterdam in 2024 characterised the violence as a "pogrom" against Jewish football fans. Footage later emerged of Maccabi fans attacking locals and chanting racist slogans against Arabs.
Violence involving Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is not limited to matches outside of Israel. On 19 October, Israeli authorities in Tel Aviv cancelled the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv due to what police there described as "violent riots".
British police chief reiterates 'legitimate' decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
The head of a police force at the centre of a row over a ban on Israeli football fans has defended his decision in front of British MPs.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Splitgate 2 returns with a new name this month "after extensive redevelopment"
1047 Games is ready to show off the new and improved version of Splitgate 2 after it pulled the game back into beta earlier this year.
Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity
The newspaper is alleging copyright infringement and calling out Perplexity's Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a culprit.
Gazan wedding photographer-turned-documenter of Gaza destruction said killed by IDF in Khan Younis
A Gazan photojournalist was killed today by an Israeli drone strike in the center of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, on the Hamas-controlled side of the ceasefire line, the city’s Nasser Hospital says.
Wadi’s Instagram profile describes him as the owner of Khan Younis-based drone photography company Alquds Studio.
The studio’s Facebook account, which has over 50,000 followers, indicates it focuses on wedding photography. One wedding-themed post was published on October 6, 2023. The account’s next post, published December 19, 2024, also documents a wedding taking place “despite all the difficult conditions and the war.”
On April 7 this year, the studio announced “with tearful eyes and hearts heavy with pain” that the business had been destroyed by Israel. The studio appeared to still manage to photograph weddings in May and September, according to its social media accounts.
On May 25, the studio posted a video of children begging for food. “Today, we fix our lenses on Gaza to document an entirely different story,” said the studio, explaining its pivot from wedding videos.
Palestinian photojournalist killed in Israeli drone strike; Indonesia floods death toll tops 700; 40 killed in Sudan in alleged army strike
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39770036
Israeli military kills Palestinian photojournalist in Gaza; as Israeli forces also kill two Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank. 200 trucks enter Gaza daily (far below the number required by the ceasefire agreement), while 6,600 trucks wait. More reports emerge of drugs being smuggled into Gaza by Israel-supported gangs. Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks with President Trump again and receives another invitation to the White House. Saudi Arabia sends the Palestinian Authority $90 million. Northwestern University surrenders to Trump and accepts additional federal government control over campus policies, admissions, and more. The Trump administration now admits it struck a “drug smuggling” boat in the Caribbean twice in a September operation. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem wants an even wider travel ban, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that the U.S. takes in “essentially…zero” refugees. Starbucks is ordered to pay up for labor law violations in New York. “Operation Midway Blitz” is suffocating the economy of the city’s most prominent Latino neighborhood. The U.S. wants to increase uranium mining, even if it means spiking cancer rates for the communities that do the work and for those who live nearby. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces takes a critical transportation hub in the South, where another attack leaves 40 dead. Gang operations overrun central Haiti. The Nigerian government grants asylum to the leader of Guinea-Bissau’s opposition.
Palestinian photojournalist killed in Israeli drone strike; Indonesia floods death toll tops 700; 40 killed in Sudan in alleged army strike
Israeli military kills Palestinian photojournalist in Gaza; as Israeli forces also kill two Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank. 200 trucks enter Gaza daily (far below the number required by the ceasefire agreement), while 6,600 trucks wait. More reports emerge of drugs being smuggled into Gaza by Israel-supported gangs. Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks with President Trump again and receives another invitation to the White House. Saudi Arabia sends the Palestinian Authority $90 million. Northwestern University surrenders to Trump and accepts additional federal government control over campus policies, admissions, and more. The Trump administration now admits it struck a “drug smuggling” boat in the Caribbean twice in a September operation. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem wants an even wider travel ban, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that the U.S. takes in “essentially…zero” refugees. Starbucks is ordered to pay up for labor law violations in New York. “Operation Midway Blitz” is suffocating the economy of the city’s most prominent Latino neighborhood. The U.S. wants to increase uranium mining, even if it means spiking cancer rates for the communities that do the work and for those who live nearby. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces takes a critical transportation hub in the South, where another attack leaves 40 dead. Gang operations overrun central Haiti. The Nigerian government grants asylum to the leader of Guinea-Bissau’s opposition.
Yes, in genuine democracy where the means of production are not wholly owned by capitalists. You really need to learn what the difference between a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and a dictatorship of the proletariat is. China is far from perfect but the voice of the populace is vastly more powerful there and actually does steer the state. Considering the topic here was "voting out fascism" one obvious thing to note is that you won't find China or the DPRK ever led by actual straight up fascists as is the case openly right now in the US.
Here's the thing:
I didn't believe for a second that a Kamala victory would have crushed fascism forever.
In fact, I'm positive the GOP would place Trump's cold corpse as their nominee in all future elections if they had to.
The problem is simple:
Fascists are in power right now.
They wouldn't be in nearly as much power if Kamala had won
Because the fascists are in power, its exceedingly unlikely we'll ever have a fair election again with this government
That wouldn't be nearly as likely to be the case if Kamala had won.
Furthermore, I'm tired of white leftists screaming for revolution while they themselves know damn good and well they'd never fight in one themselves, and they wouldn't suffer even close to as much as racial, sexual and gender minorities will in resisting fascism.
The white leftists who refused to vote for Kamala suffer nowhere near as much as any minority living under Trump, and they knew that and still relax with their arms behind their heads today.
The white leftists who refused to vote for Kamala suffer nowhere near as much as any minority loving under Trump, and they knew that and still relax with their arms behind their heads today
The smug liberals who refused to have a backbone or humanity in the face of their party's genocide suffer nowhere near as much as Palestinans suffered under Biden and Harris, and they knew that and still relax with their fingers in their ears today
So you're not at all refuting that minorities are suffering g far more than white people under Trump?
And here's the issue with using the genocide of the Palestinians as an excuse to abandon all other minorities:
Resistance against the genocide in Palestine exists almost entirely within the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
Democracy would still almost certainly continue to exist in some capacity if Kamala had won.
But now that Trump won, Israel is not only entirely free, with zero guard rails whatsoever, to complete their genocide and attack all of their neighbors, but now the US is further involved than ever, outright bombing Iran in the process.
And genocide is your concern, huh?
What about the 4k (minimum) missing minorities that were kidnapped by ICE?
The mass building of concentration camps on US soil?
The massacre of Venezuelan civilians as prelude to an outright war and enslavement of Venezuela?
The campaign of the GOP's to destroy the 14th amendment and Voting Rights Act? You know, eliminating birthright citizenship and voter rights, the same shit the Nazis did to Jews leading to the start of the Holocaust.
Oh, and the total betrayal of Ukraine in Russia's genocidal war on them?
Refusal to vote for Kamala produced more genocide. Kamala was objectively the less genocidal option than Trump.
As opposed to...?
You understand the US has a binary party system, right? You have 2 choices.
Since the GOP primaries for Trump, and Biden totally fucked over the Dem party by dropping too late for anyone other than Kamala to take the ticket, that was the choice.
A revolution that you mfers will never fight in.
Time and time again we see terminally online leftists scream for revolution, and absolutely no indication one will ever happen, let alone that they'll participate.
Nice psychological projection!
You disphits realize we wouldn't currently be living under fascism if Kamala had won, right?
Like, objectively we wouldn't be.
And yes, you chicken-hawk cowards will never participate in a revolution. You rather put everyone else in a state of such extreme desperation that they feel the need to fight for you.
Fucking pathetic.
Just like the dipahits in MAGA
Y'all don't actually give a fuck about Palestine, or any marginalized groups. You just want to see other people pissed off so you can feel superior for the very first time in your life.
Truly pathetic. Makes sense why y'all would let Trump win then. Y'all are one in the same with MAGA
Russia's genocidal war
Words have meaning, and war is not genocide. You people support the Ukrainian coup government, who were doing actual ethnic cleansing before the Russian Federation finally stopped them. Anyone in the Donbas region would throw you in a hole for this equivocation, and you would deserve it. It makes me sick when liberals just mindlessly project the crimes of America's vassals and allies on America's enemies. Israel and Ukraine are allies. Israel trains both the Ukranian military and ICE. You are supporting, either tacitly or overtly, two different sets of nazis. You are a nazi supporter.
Refusal to vote for Kamala produced more genocide. Kamala was objectively the less genocidal option than Trump.
This is genocide-justifying horseshit to soothe your guilty conscience. Gaza was levelled under the Democrats. I'm not reading the rest of your fascist apologia because frankly, you people all spew the same delusional arguments. Anyone in Palestine would throw you into the sea for this inhumanity, and you would deserve it. Your cowardice and servility in the face of unimaginable cruelty has doomed you to live the rest of your life as a Good German. I would say good luck, but I don't wish good luck for you. I wish you a sudden moment of terrible clarity.
Do tell me what the roadmap for establishing progressive policies is like under Trump vs Kamala
Seems we're objectively further away from a progressive government than ever. Am I wrong?
Not a rebuttle to my point at all.
I'll take it that you have absolutely no reasonable counter argument and are just shitposting images of minorities being attacked with no real goal in mind.
How typical
Palestinian Americans waiting for Harris to show she’s different from Biden on Gaza
(AP)—Demoralized by the Biden administration’s handling of Israel’s war on Gaza, Palestinian American Samia Assed found in Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascension—and her running mate pick—“a little ray of hope.People's World
European fraud probe targets former EU official Mogherini
European fraud probe targets former EU official Mogherini
EU prosecutors have detained three officials, including Italian politician Federica Mogherini. They suspect fraud in a 2021 and 2022 training program for junior diplomats and its tender process.Mark Hallam (Deutsche Welle)
Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing "Narco-Dictator" Convicted of Drug Trafficking
In a 26th floor courtroom overlooking Manhattan’s frigid winter skyline, dozens of immigrants sat in on the trial of their former president, the once untouchable symbol of a “narco-dictatorship” that reorganized of the government’s judicial, police, and military leadership to collude with drug traffickers.
It wasn’t Nicolás Maduro — though the Venezuelan president had likewise been indicted in the Southern District of New York. It was Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president who, as U.S. prosecutors said in their closing arguments in 2024, “paved a cocaine superhighway” to the United States. In a monthlong trial we covered from New York that winter, Hernández was convicted of three counts of drug trafficking and weapons charges, earning him a 45-year prison sentence.
Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing “Narco-Dictator” Convicted of Drug Trafficking
The pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, who served less than two years of a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking, comes as Trump threatens war on Venezuela over “narcoterrorism.”Jared Olson (The Intercept)
In a plot twist worthy of a political thriller, the EU’s new diplomatic chief, Kalla Kallas, finds her shiny new office getting a surprise “spring cleaning” from Belgian police. Raids, seized documents, and detentions over alleged fraud and corruption have arrived just in time to spice up the bloc’s already strained credibility. Nothing says “united front” like a corruption probe at the heart of your foreign policy HQ.
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ECB refuses to provide backstop for €140bn Ukraine loan
ECB refuses to provide backstop for €140bn Ukraine loan
Central bank rejects role in European Commission proposal that would use frozen Russian assetsOlaf Storbeck, Henry Foy, Paola Tamma and Laura Dubois (The Irish Times)
Police detain former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in anti-fraud probe
The EU's former foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has been detained by Belgian police as part of an anti-fraud investigation. Stefano Sannino, a top EU civil servant, was also taken into questioning on Tuesday.
Mogherini was among three suspects taken for questioning on Tuesday morning after Belgian authorities searched the offices of the European External Action Service (EEAS), the College of Europe in the city of Bruges and a series of private homes.
As High Representative, Mogherini helmed the EEAS and led the bloc's foreign policy between 2014 and 2019. She has been the rector of the College of Europe, a prestigious university that receives EU funding, since September 2020.
The investigation is seeking to determine whether the EEAS broke its tendering rules by sharing information with the College before the project was formally awarded.
The EPPO said there are "strong suspicions" that EU rules on fair competition were breached during the tendering process and that "confidential information related to the ongoing procurement was shared with one of the candidates participating in the tender."
Toddler star Ms. Rachel named finalist for 'Antisemite of the Year' amid Gaza advocacy
Toddler star Ms. Rachel named finalist for 'Antisemite of the Year' amid Gaza advocacy
Ms. Rachel, a social media sensation among toddlers, was named a top ten finalist for StopAntisemitism’s Antisemite of the Year Award.ELAINE MALLON | The National News Desk (The National Desk)
Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is under increasing fire for a double-tap strike, first reported by The Intercept in early September, in which the U.S. military killed two survivors of the Trump administration’s initial boat strike in the Caribbean on September 2.
The Washington Post recently reported that Hegseth personally ordered the follow-up attack, giving a spoken order “to kill everybody.” Multiple military legal experts, lawmakers, and now confidential sources within the government who spoke with The Intercept say Hegseth’s actions could result in the entire chain of command being investigated for a war crime or outright murder.
“Those directly involved in the strike could be charged with murder under the UCMJ or federal law,” said Todd Huntley, a former Staff Judge Advocate who served as a legal adviser on Joint Special Operations task forces conducting drone strikes in Afghanistan and elsewhere, using shorthand for the Uniform Code of Military Justice. “This is about as clear of a case being patently illegal that subordinates would probably not be able to successfully use a following-orders defense.”
Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept.Nick Turse (The Intercept)
Fed’s $13.5B Repo Injection Sparks Liquidity Alarm
Fed’s $13.5B Repo Injection Sparks Liquidity Alarm
The Federal Reserve quietly pumped $13.5 billion into overnight repo markets—one of the largest operations since 2020. What does this sudden cash injection mean for stocks, Bitcoin, and the broader financial system?CapWolf
Jewish organisation calls for Ms Rachel to be named 'anti-Semite of the year'
The American pro-Israel group StopAntisemitism has included children’s content creator Ms Rachel on its “Antisemite of the Year” list, targeting her for highlighting the suffering of Palestinian children.
StopAntisemitism has repeatedly attacked Ms Rachel on social media for sharing content with her more than 20 million followers showing starving Palestinian children and highlighting the plight of youngsters who have lost limbs in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The pro-Israel organisation even has even urged US Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether Accurso is receiving foreign funding to promote anti-Israel messaging and influence public opinion. There has been no evidence provided such accusations.
Jewish organisation calls for Ms Rachel to be named 'anti-Semite of the year'
The American pro-Israel group StopAntisemitism has included children’s content creator Ms Rachel on its “Antisemite of the Year” list, targeting her for highlighting the suffering of Palestinian children.
StopAntisemitism has repeatedly attacked Ms Rachel on social media for sharing content with her more than 20 million followers showing starving Palestinian children and highlighting the plight of youngsters who have lost limbs in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The pro-Israel organisation even has even urged US Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether Accurso is receiving foreign funding to promote anti-Israel messaging and influence public opinion. There has been no evidence provided such accusations.
James R Kirk
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •anon5621
in reply to James R Kirk • • •James R Kirk
in reply to anon5621 • • •crunchy
in reply to James R Kirk • • •Günther Unlustig 🍄
in reply to crunchy • • •marcie (she/her)
in reply to James R Kirk • • •James R Kirk
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •marcie (she/her)
in reply to James R Kirk • • •James R Kirk
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •Caveman
in reply to anon5621 • • •JustEnoughDucks
in reply to Caveman • • •Yes but they force you to use GTK apps by default for the core apps.
They even replaced Discover with Bazaar where you can't see certain package types (like mangohud) and have to install them manually, can't browse by category and just get "selected" games shoved in your phase, as well as getting no update notifications and it will silently fail sometimes in the background with no notifications or messages.
Caveman
in reply to JustEnoughDucks • • •dil
in reply to JustEnoughDucks • • •Bazaar has the best search by far, try them all, youll actually find stuff using bazaar, like fps will actually show all the fps, the rest wont, tried them all trying to find the best appstore
The first thing I noticed was how bad the search was on kde and gnome for the software stores.
(Tried cosmic, appcenter, etc. also)
quarterlife
in reply to JustEnoughDucks • • •By "core apps", you mean literally only two applications.
The terminal is replaced with one that has a container workflow because that is the recommended and expected workflow for anyone working in a terminal.
The store is replaced with Bazaar because it is the only one that is even trying to provide a good flathub experience.
That's it. Everything else is stock KDE.
jaycifer
in reply to anon5621 • • •My understanding is that one of the upsides to Bazzite is that Nvidia drivers are pretty easy to install and manage. That was the thing that turned me off of Fedora when I tried making the switch to that a couple years ago.
Is that easy to do in Kinoite? This is the first I’ve heard of it, and it sounds like exactly what I would want out of Bazzite.
quarterlife
in reply to jaycifer • • •anon5621
in reply to quarterlife • • •quarterlife
in reply to anon5621 • • •rooster_butt
in reply to James R Kirk • • •What about steamOS for a steam machine that has all AMD hardware so Nvidia drivers will not be an issue.
I'm building an htpc that will never be used in desktop mode just couch gaming used by kids too. Still trying to decide which os to go with.
Just want to know what the downsides if any of installing SteamOS if I just want valve to handle it for me.
James R Kirk
in reply to rooster_butt • • •bier
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •like this
HeerlijkeDrop likes this.
Mora
in reply to bier • • •Should be manageable and it is probably less than you would imagine. Just checked real quick: the isos load from download.bazzite.gg, which is a Cloudflare IP. So they are either using it as CDN or even more likely use Cloudflares R2 storage for isos - which would mean they pay for storage (~15$/TB) and operations, but not for egress. This is seems ideal for few but huge files.
So for a single iso (~7 GB) they would pay 0,105$ for storage monthly and additionally 0,36$ per million of class B operations (reads/downloads). Of course they host more than one ISO, but for this example it would have been downloaded about ~150000 times to reach the petabyte.
So yeah, the ISO download is probably less of a problem. (Disclaimer: lot of assumptions, check in with a bazzite dev for clarity)
Korhaka
in reply to Mora • • •turdas
in reply to Mora • • •Mora
in reply to turdas • • •marcie (she/her)
in reply to Mora • • •j0rge
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •GitHub
GitHubmarcie (she/her)
in reply to j0rge • • •Noa Himesaka
in reply to Mora • • •cmnybo
in reply to bier • • •prole
in reply to cmnybo • • •Caveman
in reply to prole • • •Xylight
in reply to Caveman • • •themusicman
in reply to bier • • •ExtraPartsLeft
in reply to bier • • •Bazzite ($) - Open Collective
opencollective.comquarterlife
in reply to ExtraPartsLeft • • •Founder here, we have a sponsorship deal with Cloudflare that thankfully covers the vast majority of this. Our hosting costs right now for everything, including the GitHub runners, are $65, with the domain being another $100/yr.
The intention with the donations is to pay for those costs, travel for Linux conventions, and for us to have a fund for additional higher cost items like eventually doing proper secure boot support. At no point will myself or others be collecting a paycheck out of those funds, and I've been paying our bills for the last 3 years or so. I'm privileged to be able to do this as a hobby and not as a job.
Thank you for thinking about us! I appreciate the sentiment
Fizz
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •Holytimes
in reply to Fizz • • •Eh costs likely basically nothing. They appear to use cloud flare CDN which has unlimited bandwidth.
So really all they're doing is getting their money's worth from their subscription. Lol
Fermion
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •Caveman
in reply to Fermion • • •Sips'
in reply to Caveman • • •Watch around 00:45 ☺️
- YouTube
www.youtube.comFermion
in reply to Sips' • • •There's a link with the time appended.
- YouTube
www.youtube.comFermion
in reply to Caveman • • •Gamer's Nexus has heard a lot of interest in their community about gaming on linux. So they've been working with Wendell from Level1Techs to put together a Linux benchmarking workflow. They chose Bazzite for those efforts.
Gamer's Nexus likes to make frequent use of a clip from an Intel presentation where one of the presenters says "Thanks Steve," because the main personality on Gamers Nexus is Stephen Burke.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U4vr4reTN8&t=6s
ordnance_qf_17_pounder
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •ColeSloth
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •buckykat [none/use name]
in reply to ColeSloth • • •ColeSloth
in reply to buckykat [none/use name] • • •orenj
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •Yes... ha ha ha... YES!
(i dont even use bazzite but love that for them)
CrookedSerpent [she/her]
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •JasonDJ
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •I'm doing my part.
I set up bazzite in a VM and passed my GPU thru it.
Now I've got a nuc clone in my office with bazzite on it as well and it's just a moonlight client. But it's silent. Or damn close. The GPU is two floors away, I hear nothing!
That was two separate downloads, too...Nvidia-gnone and gnome-standard.
I was on Nobara a couple months ago and liked it...but a colleague piqued my interest on immutable distros and now here I am.
tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
in reply to JasonDJ • • •buckykat [none/use name]
in reply to tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them] • • •IsThisLoss [comrade/them]
in reply to tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them] • • •arin
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •chunkystyles
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •Aurora sitting down there at the bottom of the desktop OSs. I'd love to some of the Bazzite users migrate to Bluefin or Aurora.
If you're not aware, switching between different Universal Blue OSs is super easy, with one caveat. Switching from a GNOME OS to a KDE OS or vice versa is problematic.
thingsiplay
in reply to chunkystyles • • •Why?
chunkystyles
in reply to thingsiplay • • •j0rge
in reply to chunkystyles • • •Bluefin comaintainer here. The metrics are flathub and app developer donations, not the base image. You spread the love when you install a flatpak or buy a linux game and make those numbers go up.
The idea that the base OS is important isn't a thing, the only way to fix the economics of the linux desktop is to focus on applications, not distros.
Günther Unlustig 🍄
in reply to chunkystyles • • •I did that a few times already on different installs and never had any problems, besides the window decorations/ theming being off and needing to set them again.
What issues could be expected?
JustAnotherKay
in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • • •j0rge
in reply to JustAnotherKay • • •JustAnotherKay
in reply to j0rge • • •j0rge
in reply to JustAnotherKay • • •JustAnotherKay
in reply to j0rge • • •j0rge
in reply to JustAnotherKay • • •JustAnotherKay
in reply to j0rge • • •chunkystyles
in reply to JustAnotherKay • • •That's not how these OSs work. You're thinking in terms of traditional distros.
Think of it like this. With an image-based OS like Bazzite, whenever you do an update or you switch between different flavors, it's like completely wiping the system directories and reinstalling them fresh, while leaving the user directories alone.
So you're not removing GNOME or KDE. It's like they were never installed in the first place.
Fridgeratr
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •jimerson
in reply to Fridgeratr • • •Fridgeratr
in reply to jimerson • • •FoundFootFootage78
in reply to Fridgeratr • • •Maruchinsu
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •FoundFootFootage78
in reply to Maruchinsu • • •aeharding
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •Cosmic is subjectively the best DE out there. Popos 24 is scheduled for release in a week, it’s awesome.
It’s a Ubuntu fork so it’s easy to follow Ubuntu based guides. Starting with 24 they’re going to stay much more in sync with Ubuntu LTS.
Besides that, modern kernel, out of the box nvidia and disk encryption. Oh and pop is maintained by system76 that ships actual hardware (laptops and desktops) so it’s in their own best interest to have good modern hardware support. It’s a fantastic distro
Fridgeratr
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •Holytimes
in reply to Fridgeratr • • •If you want a console like experience on your PC then use bazzite. If you want the same experience but with out the console lock down use cachyOS.
Depends on how much you do with your PC really. Like bazzite has one of the best out-of-box experiences there is. Basically everything is preset up. But if you need to say, leave the steam ecosystem. Things become infinitely more complicated than any other distro to do anything with that is both the benefit in downfall of an immutable distro. It makes sure you can't f*** anything up but it also means you can't f*** anything up if you get what I mean.
While cachyOS has the exact same out-of-box experience with the sole exception of you have to push one button and type in your password. And if you do need to leave the steam ecosystem, it's at the end of the day a normal distribution so you can just do whatever you want.
The downside is you can do whatever you want so you can break s***.
Basically comes down to bazzite is basically old Windows. You are not allowed to do anything really without a lot of jumping through hoops. It means you're going to get a consistent experience and it's going to be reliable, but only within the operating parameters set out by the distribution.
While cachyOS is basically all of the same upsides but without any of the guardrails. So if you want just a good out of box experience it's there. All the compatibility is the same if not generally better in the real world. But again, if you're stupid or unable to read basic instructions there's a good chance that you break something and you'll have no idea how to fix it. Short of a reinstall.
I would give a child bazzite 100% of the time. Immutable this shows work is a fantastic form of parental control. Because while the barrier exists and will prevent most kids from doing something stupid with their computer, it's not insurmountable and you still can do whatever you want with your computer. It's just not easy.
But in either case, I would choose literally shooting myself in the foot before using anything in the debian or Ubuntu family if my primary goal is gaming. I love Debian but it in its family of distros are so out of date and require so much f****** to actually bring in newer packages and make sure that they actually compete even half as well as a fedora or arch-based option that it's not worth the hassle. You're far more prone to breaking a Debian mint popos install. Trying to make it equivalent to bazzite or cachy for gaming. Than you are breaking an arch install by just randomly installing packages from the aur without reading anything.
Fridgeratr
in reply to Holytimes • • •Obama's Wrath
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •تحريرها كلها ممكن
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •Pechente
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •I‘m one of them. I already only used Windows for gaming and seeing where this OS is going, made me try Linux again and this time might be the first time I might stick with it, thanks to Bazzite.
Games run incredibly well and compatibility is surprisingly good at this point. The only exception are games with invasive anti-cheat like the new Battlefield. But I guess it’s just a pro that I won’t buy a game that essentially has malware included with it.
herseycokguzelolacak
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •That Weird Vegan
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •truite
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •Holytimes
in reply to truite • • •Problem generally is that the moment you do have to leave steam. It's infinitely worse and basically impossible to use for a low skilled or new user compared to other gamer distros that do the exact same thing as bazzite but arnt immutable.
Immutability is great till you need to actually do anything at all. It's such a catch 22. To a new user, it means you can't accidentally f*** anything up, but also to a new user basically means your computer is a glorified console and you can't do anything with it because you lack the skill set in knowledge to actually do anything in looking. Anything up basically isn't going to be helpful for you cuz basically every guide and written account anywhere you find isn't going to be geared towards an immutable distro.
The immutable gimmick that's currently going on right now is still way too flavor of the month for new users who are trying to learn from a ground set of nothing.
If I was giving a computer to like a kid who I didn't want to be able to do anything I would give it to them as a form of parental control more than anything.
truite
in reply to Holytimes • • •coaxil
in reply to truite • • •LikeableLime
in reply to coaxil • • •equivocal
in reply to LikeableLime • • •j0rge
in reply to LikeableLime • • •truite
in reply to coaxil • • •j0rge
in reply to Holytimes • • •New users aren't going to administer their computers either. there's no "flavor of the month" it's just teaching new users how to administer linux systems properly. And of course directions on the internet are going to be incorrect, the only correct solution is to follow the documentation, not random guides on the internet.
priapus
in reply to Holytimes • • •What exactly do you think someone is going to have to do that isn't easily done on Bazzite? Bazzite isn't based around Steam. 99% of users will install everything they need from Flathub and be perfectly fine.
Also, you can do anything you want with an "immutable" distro, it's just done differently. Immutable is a bad and unclear descriptor, which is why Bazzite uses atomic.
onlooker
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •YiddishMcSquidish
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •theparadox
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •As I understand it, it's atomic Fedora with virtually everything you might need to game on Linux baked in (no need for layering) and more or less preconfigured. Off the top of my head, proprietary Nvidia drivers, Steam, Lutris, Hero launcher, support for Xbox One wireless controller dongle, plus a number of useful tools like Tailscale. An app with a catered list of gaming-oriented flatpacks, one click updating. Also a lot of effort into replicating the Steam Deck experience for handheld devices or devices connected to a TV.
I believe they also do Aurora, which is similarly geared toward workstations with a ton of container-related tools like distro box readily available to easily use containers instead of layering where possible. The same tools may be available in Bazzite but I never checked. I have Aurora on my laptop and use a dedicated gaming device with Bazzite.
I'm not a Linux veteran by any means but I was hopping distros looking for something I could install on my family's computers I tried atomic Fedora. When using it for myself, I became frustrated with the number of tools I use that needed to be layered or run in a container and eventually found myself on Bazzite and Aurora. So far so good.
Holytimes
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •Immutable distros are currently the flavor of the month and it's basically just that. Bazzite is just a worse cachyOS. But because it's immutable it's the flavor of the month and therefore it's the hype new thing.
Everyone loves the hype new thing. Even though in all realistic aspects, it's more overly complicated. It's more prone to causing issues for new users. It's less proven.
There's a good argument to be made that the project might just end up imploding in a year or two and dying out and f****** over all these new users who are flocking to it because of rampant suggestions.
Is also the general issue of Fedora and its family being prone to breaking itself from early adoption of new ideas. People love to give Arch s*** but Fedora tends to be the one that actually implodes itself for low-skilled users.
Got to love flavor of the month
om1k
in reply to Holytimes • • •Could you make this argument?
sakuraba
in reply to om1k • • •No they can't, they can only say "flavor of the month" nonstop until another parrot catches it and repeats it
I can counter argument their non-existing argument, if bazzite dies tomorrow you are free to rebase to any other Fedora Atomic distro
marcie (she/her)
in reply to om1k • • •It's nonsense you can just use one command to swap from bazzite to kinoite if it does, it's very easy and low effort to distro hop on fedora atomic based distros
And half of the project is mostly just automated package update pulls and compiling them into images
WolfLink
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •dil
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •A lot of things are built into it to be easily installable with less user effort. Has nice defaults. I use cachyos on my pc but on my handheld a lot of stuff wasn't working by default, like the handhelds buttons/joystick. On bazzite everything works by default. (Think it's one terminal command to install what is needed for controls in cachyos, but it didn't work by default) You can still download whatever using rpm ostree, as a user idr know the difference. Grabbed gparted that way. Bazzite has the ujust command which gives you a lot of options for modifying and installing stuff easily like waydroid, emudeck, plugins, etc.
Also prefer gnome with extensions on touchscreens and handhelds, while everything else comes with kde and it's apps by default. Kde isn't bad at all and only 1 extension on pc (window thumbnails to pip any window) has me staying on gnome, but gnome works so much better for touchscreens and smaller devices.
James R Kirk
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •SlimePirate
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •Aquatic_Melon
in reply to SlimePirate • • •SlimePirate
in reply to Aquatic_Melon • • •Kinda makes linux look like a weird old windows clone, while other desktops can be very modern and way prettier than Windows
like this
geneva_convenience likes this.
SaneMartigan
in reply to SlimePirate • • •ShinkanTrain
in reply to SaneMartigan • • •Booting Gnome for the first time is such a baffling experience. Then you discover extensions and it feels pretty good.
I don't like that I'm beholden to extensions that may break after an update to get what I want out of it, but I still use it on my laptop cause it's the best touchscreen experience I've had (after tweaks)
geneva_convenience
in reply to SlimePirate • • •Why is Mint wasting their spot as the recommendation for Windows users? Is it simply no longer developed or are the devs set in their ways of the UI having to look like Windows7?
Also it's getting confusing with Zorin and Bazzite and even Aurora which is a Bazzite desktop spinoff as a recommendation.
Aquatic_Melon
in reply to SlimePirate • • •lemming741
in reply to SlimePirate • • •Bluewing
in reply to lemming741 • • •lemming741
in reply to Bluewing • • •Bluewing
in reply to lemming741 • • •I spent years running Ubuntu. I've typed 'sudo apt-get install' so many times I got carpel fingernail from doing it. 'sudo dnf install' is less typing and could have saved my fingernails. Now I use Kinonite and have all updates set to automatic and I very seldom even need to do anything at all.
Yes, I'm old, lazy, and can't be bothered anymore. Why do you ask? ;)
Petter1
in reply to Bluewing • • •How about
yay
Even more simple, and now guess the update command
Yea, it is just
yay
Damn I love endeavourOS (Arch for lazy people)
Edit: ohh, automatically, yea, for that I use opensuse TW as it updates automatically prior shutdown
Captain Aggravated
in reply to Bluewing • • •Bluewing
in reply to Captain Aggravated • • •Matriks404
in reply to SlimePirate • • •LiamBox
in reply to Aquatic_Melon • • •Mint is great! It taught me the basics of linux.
Meanwhile SteamOS bewildered me with no printing support
Jakeroxs
in reply to LiamBox • • •Holytimes
in reply to Aquatic_Melon • • •It suffers from the same problem all Debian/Ubuntu family distros suffer from.
Being horribly out of date. It's a very slow moving family of distros. Which can be a good thing if your work load doesn't involve new hardware and software along with a focus on stability and reliability. Since if things don't update they can't break.
This can result in support for hardware and software being upwards of two to three YEARS out of date. Which for gamers for example is unacceptable and causes issues more often then not.
It's the why fedora or arch based distros are generally speaking the better option to suggest to people. Depending on their level of intelligence, education and willingness to learn.
Bazzite and cachyOS for example are both fantastic for gamers.
Fedora or endeavour for your run of the mill office PC.
There is a serious argument to be made that the mass adoption of bazzite and the general flavor of the month affection for immutable distros is very likely going to cause issues for loads of users down the road.
So bazzite being overly popular is somewhat concerning. Flavor of the month distros have a bad tendency to implode randomly.
paultimate14
in reply to Holytimes • • •I think your perspective might be a bit biased towards your own bubble here. People are still buying Nintendo Switch's. People are still buying Steam Decks.
I am getting close to 600 games in my Steam Library, but only 2 were released this year. Both were Indie games (Fragrance Point and Tower Wizard).
Ram is costing hundreds of dollars. GPU's are costing thousands. Desktop gaming, heck desktop ownership in general, has been falling off. If people are still on x86, they are more likely to be on laptops.
For the average person, the idea that you need your OS to be updated every couple of weeks so that you can check your email and play Minecraft with your kids is insane.
The Desktop PC Is Close to Its End
Sydney Butler (How-To Geek)Jakeroxs
in reply to paultimate14 • • •I feel like this might come down to more people building their own towers vs buying them outright, whereas those who wouldn't be inclined to build their own PC are instead defaulting to laptops.
I'd be curious what it looked like during Covid, because a lot of non-PC gamers I knew all of a sudden were interested in building their own rigs.
SlimePirate
in reply to Holytimes • • •I had issues daily and each time I looked it was actually fixed but not available in the distro.
It was especially amnoying for development where I had to manually compile newer versions.
Snap being forced while being outdated as well was also part of it.
marcie (she/her)
in reply to Holytimes • • •If it implodes you can just rebase to kinoite with a single command without needing to backup anything
Captain Aggravated
in reply to Holytimes • • •Horse {they/them}
in reply to Aquatic_Melon • • •if you're running a pc with no major components newer than ~2-3 years old then mint is fine
the idea that it's "bad for gaming" is nonsense unless you're running near-bleeding edge hardware or are exceptionally sweaty about eking out an additional couple of frames per second
Bluewing
in reply to Aquatic_Melon • • •Absolutely nothing. If you're vibin' with Mint, 3 Huzzahs for you! If you get curious to try something else later, that's great too!
It's not the distro you use that matters in the story of Life, it's the fact you use Linux that matters.
boonhet
in reply to Aquatic_Melon • • •If you have 0 issues and aren't bored with it either, keep using it. It's completely fine.
People often have various reasons for not using it. E.g they want more up-to-date packages so they go with a rolling release distro, or they want to use a different package manager, or they want an immutable distro. Mint is just a generalist distro that works fine for most people, but doesn't excel at any particular thing. Same as Ubuntu LTS, but with a nicer UI and less commercialization, so I see it as a great alternative to Ubuntu LTS. Ubuntu non-LTS may be more up to date though.
klangcola
in reply to Aquatic_Melon • • •There's nothing wrong with Mint, it's solid. If it works for you don't stress about it
The only thing is that it's based on Ubuntu LTS so it's packages can be a bit old. Doesn't really matter much unless you have very new hardware and need the hardware support. Then something Fedora based like Bazzite would be better.
For getting newer software you can use flatpak/Flathub.
Bazzite is also "immutable" which makes it harder to break on a system level, but also harder to tinker on a system level. Mint is a "normal" distribution in that regard. Mint does have Timeshift for taking system level snapshots, on the off chance that an update or your tinkering breaks something. Its worth checking that Timeshift is set up for automatic snapshots
FoundFootFootage78
in reply to SlimePirate • • •Bluewing
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •If you're looking for the immutable Plasma experience, Kinonite IS the best choice. Bazzite, Aurora, and I think Zoran, are reliant on whatever their foundation distro is doing. Other than having some presets you might like, they offer little else.
But if you like one of them, more power to you, use it and enjoy!
melfie
in reply to SlimePirate • • •bridgeenjoyer
in reply to melfie • • •SlimePirate
in reply to melfie • • •melfie
in reply to SlimePirate • • •Mwa
in reply to SlimePirate • • •besides all its desktops not supporting Wayland (ig X11 is better for beginners??)
Bluewing
in reply to Mwa • • •bridgeenjoyer
in reply to SlimePirate • • •Why? me and SO have been on mint only for a year now and love it.
Couple other pcs have popos which is OK but a bit buggy for me
SlimePirate
in reply to bridgeenjoyer • • •Captain Aggravated
in reply to SlimePirate • • •chronicledmonocle
in reply to SlimePirate • • •Crozekiel
in reply to SlimePirate • • •I'm perfectly fine with Mint as a recommendation. It's not what I would choose, but it does work for a large portion of people without issues.
I am very glad that I hardly ever see Manjaro recommended to new comers anymore though - that's a curse/trap. There are so much better "Arch but easier" distros now that are rock solid.
hexagonwin
in reply to SlimePirate • • •Why though? I don't like it personally but it's my #1 recommendation usually. (can't recommend slackware to noobs)
If they have issues they're gonna ask me for tech support, and I don't know how to use immutable distros (lol)
dil
in reply to SlimePirate • • •agegamon
in reply to SlimePirate • • •Mint's mouse acceleration was what killed it for me. Setting acceleration to "constant" still felt rubber-bandy and fucked up, and there's no obvious "Off" option. That was a hard stop. It never felt like I was using my PC but instead a rubber-bandy immitation. I immediately switched. It's frustrating considering that the rest of the OS seemed OK, I could have seen myself using it if not for that.
Bazzite immediately felt "good" to use right out of the box. No baked in acceleration weirdness. Kudos to the team for really putting in the effort to make this old gamer feel right at home in it. Now going on over a year of it and still loving it.
LiamBox
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •atlas
in reply to LiamBox • • •Bluewing
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •boonhet
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •marcie (she/her)
in reply to boonhet • • •Rekorse
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •AllHailTheSheep
in reply to Rekorse • • •podman works well, docker is a little finicky due to some systemd weirdness and the whole immutability of it all.
it mainly tries to get you to use distroboxes which are awesome. you can even install something in a distrobox and expose it to the host.
Rekorse
in reply to AllHailTheSheep • • •AllHailTheSheep
in reply to Rekorse • • •they're all containerization programs yes. I believe they differ in some minor details but thanks to the OCI standards a image built with docker will run in podman or vice versa.
distrobox is a little more feature rich for development, meant for exposing services and are interactive by default, vs dockers run and forget methodology.
Jakeroxs
in reply to Rekorse • • •Distrobox is more like running an entire other Linux distro to run your program, so like before my laptop died completely I had Bazzite and needed to install something locally that was way easier to do in an Ubuntu Distrobox, any time I wanted to run that program I open up my distrobox and run it, felt very native and the app and its files were still in my normal home directory yet ran with dependencies and such I had in the distrobox only.
Definitely nifty but different from the goal of podman/docker imo
Rekorse
in reply to Jakeroxs • • •potajito
in reply to Rekorse • • •Rekorse
in reply to potajito • • •ZombiFrancis
in reply to Rekorse • • •Yes, but the beauty of it is that it plugs in Steam immediately. If you're installing it on a machine that uses Steam and sometimes browses it is a one-stop shop.
I offloaded Windows 10 entirely, installed bazzite, and played Hollow Knight and the entire Dark Souls trilogy from the same installation on the same harddrive I'd had them on Windows. Didnt even need to reinstall.
To me that's impressive. I only had a few crashes overall too.
Captain Aggravated
in reply to boonhet • • •If you've got actual work to do, don't.
I've got Bazzite on my TV PC, and it's pretty cromulent for that, but Flatpak alone doesn't have everything I need to do actual work.
Bongles
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •DoucheBagMcSwag
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •DreasNil
in reply to DoucheBagMcSwag • • •Destide
in reply to DoucheBagMcSwag • • •James R Kirk
in reply to DoucheBagMcSwag • • •LemmyLegume
in reply to DoucheBagMcSwag • • •DoucheBagMcSwag
in reply to LemmyLegume • • •ShankShill
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •I had such a good experience switching to bazzite (from arch btw) that I put Aurora on my wife's Ryzen 2500u laptop when windows 10 was taken out to a nice farm.
That went well until she said her friend's kids couldn't play games anymore. I quickly and flawlessly rebased it to bazzite and set up games.
A few hiccups with lacking Microsoft Office and having to learn the alternatives was the only issue she has had but that only took a few days for her to get down.
HiddenLayer555
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •ms.lane
in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •Plasma/KDE as a first class citizen.
KDE is second-class to GNOME on Fedora.
HiddenLayer555
in reply to ms.lane • • •It is? I ask because I've always used Fedora KDE and honesty it's been the best KDE experience I've had. Now I'm curious how much better the Fedora GNOME experience might be if it's prioritized so much more, but I've never seriously used GNOME so I don't think I can make a fair assessment. In what ways is KDE deprioritized?
marcie (she/her)
in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •ms.lane
in reply to marcie (she/her) • • •They should use this technology we used purely for uh... "Linux ISOs' back is the day.
BitTorrent.
marcie (she/her)
in reply to ms.lane • • •pat277
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