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At this point Epstein is the new “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon”.

you can pretty much tie ANYONE to Epstein so the media is just going to be slapping everyone and their grandmas names in headlines for ad revenue clickbait. Wouldn’t surprise me if an article comes out claiming “Jesus Christ named in new Epstein Files”

I’d say Bazzite but I would warn him (and since he’s a developer already it might not be a big deal) if he’s looking to do any sort of dev work or whatever with Bazzite then prepare to utilize stuff like distrobox, flatpaks, etc to accomplish stuff like that.

That being said as a dev and gamer myself if my first linux experience was Bazzite I might get annoyed. Mint is a great first experience. when I originally tried it well over a year ago though I did have issues with my Nvidia GPU on it and gaming wasn’t super great BUT it’s been awhile since I’ve used mint so that may have changed.

Honestly I would suggest start with Mint and just drive it for a couple weeks. If he likes it but feel it’s limited for some things then that’s when he can expand out to different distros. And like I said maybe gaming on Mint has improved since I last used it. But if he’s comfortable with running distrobox and containers then Bazzite is fine.

I mean at this point you’ve pretty much hit most things with the exception of a WM but you’ve stated that i3 was too much for you so…there isn’t really anything else. you’ve done xfce, cinnamon, gnome, and kde. that’s it. Other than say LabWC but if i3 was too much than that’s not going to be much better. And I’m assuming when you say “too much” you mean editing the configuration?

you could do something like Niri or Hyprland with Quickshell/DankMaterialShell where the config is all done essentially via the DMS/GUI setup for it.

Honestly the last one would be COSMIC DE. but if you’ve used GNOME already you might not like it. COSMIC does give you the option to toggle between stacking and tiling so that’ll be different than what you’ve already used but if you liked the customization of the previous DE’s you’ve used you’re going to be disappointed with COSMIC as the customization for it right now is very limited.

I’m sorry but if my child was attending a school in Minnesota and ICE was “circling” it looking for children to traffic I would be standing out front with a gun in hand all day.

I wouldn’t call this a victory. I’d call this a “re-evaluation”. they’ve invested way too much into AI/LLMs to simply drop it because users don’t like any of it. They’re simply going to pivot and come at this shit from a different angle.

I have to wonder what the end goal here is for Ubisoft. you got people leaving in droves, people leaving and forming their own studios and producing games that are quite literally games of the year, and they’re axing people left right and center.

And lets not kid ourselves this company is essentially the cockroach of gaming, how it’s still alive in 2026 is in it’s own right quite the achievement. I can’t even recall the last good Ubisoft game I played.

well to be fair you don’t even need to look at the md since right at the top it says it’s built with loveable.

yeah it’s to the point now where if I see emojis in the readme.md on the repo I just don’t even bother.

I think Anthropic has done a good enough job of poisoning Claude themselves within the past 4 to 5 months or so.

Still to this day I switch DEs/WMs every so often to try and find that right “fit”. I think that’s the biggest minor issue with Linux right now. IMHO there’s not a single perfect DE. I like KDE, everything just works, BUT how workspaces/virtual desktops work with multiple monitors is an absolute pain. Yes I’m aware with the update coming this month it’ll improve slightly but all I want from it is to have each monitor have it’s own set of dedicated workspaces like every other WM has. KDE just won’t do that regardless of the fact it’s been asked for for like 20 years now.

So I constantly end up switching. Niri, Hyprland, Plasma, whatever. None of them feel perfect and they all have their deal breaker quirks that I tolerate for awhile until I just can’t and end up switching. Like for example on Niri with some games when scrolling through windows and going back to the game it doesn’t pick up the mouse immediately so you have to do a quick switch to either another window and back or another workspace and back. similar issue with Hyprland except it’s with the keyboard instead of the mouse. Sway has similar issues. Hyprland I don’t like how workspaces work with multiple monitors either.

This is just the nature of Linux overall. sometimes you just have to tolerate the minor issues for the overall better performance/features. and it doesn’t just apply to DEs/WMs. there’s rarely anything on Linux that is the total package and 100% everything you want. Take terminals for example. Alacritty is great, fast, responsive…doesn’t do images. Kitty is awesome with images, gpu stuff, fast, smooth…doesn’t work great with tmux/multiplexers cause the dev hates them. or how about editors? DOOM Emacs has all the features I could ever want…slow as shit on startup. Lazyvim is fantastic with all the plugins available…absolute pain in the ass to get working 100% on my distro NixOS. I could go on and on. none of these are absolute dealbreakers just minor annoyances that make me constantly switch things.

So I completely 100% hear you. you like GNOME, it’s your preferred DE, BUT the potential issues with Steam Frame and VR are a deal breaker. And those things work on KDE BUT you’re just not happy with how KDE works overall. I get it man. I’m not a fan of GNOME but I get it. I mean give hyprland a shot but try it out with the defaults first before you invest too much time into configuring it and then finding there’s like one or two things that just won’t work. I’ve done that before. spent hours configuring like Sway or something to my liking and then finding out one particular application just doesn’t play well with it. It’s frustrating. Good luck.

“Proton spends time predicting the future of the internet while ensuring the eatshitification of its own products and ignoring long standing issues”

I mean pretty much any distro can achieve that even Arch based ones. For example with CachyOS you could essentially run it with say KDE and never need to open a terminal at all. Cachy includes Octopi as its GUI package manager and it works well. KDE can also potentially handle the updating for you.

you could also run say something like Bazzite or Nobara which is essentially the same. Nobara does have it’s own updater but i’ll be honest it’s kinda wonky sometimes and generally only starts off with access to its own repos.

Essentially at the end of the day the Distro doesn’t really matter in most cases. As long as it can utilize a GUI package manager or some sort of “app store” and allows easy installation of something like KDE then you’re good to go. The exceptions to this I would say would be like Gentoo or NixOS but as someone who uses NixOS…technically…it could potentially fit the bill. But that would require a bit of work to get it to that point.

Actually now that I think about it getting something like working on NixOS would be an interesting side hobby project to work on.

possibly? I’m not sure. I know it was launched in the fall of 2011 shortly after the docs say he met with Epstein. Then apparently moot turned down a second meeting the following January. so maybe /pol/ also went away then? can’t remember.

no Moot left the site in Jan of 2015 and handed operation over to like a few 4chan mods while he was looking for a buyer. I remember his last Q&A on the site after the fact. /pol/ launched in 2011.

I’m old enough to remember that when a Starbucks opened up in a part of the city that was known as being “slightly sketchy” then that area was in the process of starting to go through gentrification. now? at least here in Canada Starbucks is just a more expensive version of Tim Hortons who have some how made it possible for their coffee to taste worse than tims. And that gentrification stuff? nah man no longer applies. You’d be an idiot to go to a starbucks and pulling out your laptop to “work” these days as some fent head will just grab it off you after they wake up from their fade hunched over near the starbucks restrooms.

I use freerdp. it’s simple, works well, just use it via the terminal. I have it alias’d so I don’t even have to think about it.

all makes sense now. Epstein became buddy buddy with moot, /pol/ gets launched, is insanely influential in getting trumps first term.

I mean I used to roll my eyes at the thought that an illuminati existed but now it’s clearly evident that it DOES exist and is running the whole show. Wouldn’t surprise me if Epstien was also friends with spez and was influential in driving Aaron Swartz to suicide. hell I’m even questioning if that was suicide at this point.

The fact that our entire world has been essentially shaped by rich and powerful peoples desire to fuck children is absolutely fucking insane. everything at this point. I feel like everything I’ve ever used, enjoyed, or was passionate about was created or influenced by a pedophile. I used to use 4chan, moot is a pedophile. used to use windows, gates is a pedophile. what else?

As a Canadian and also someone who has a Mother the same age this one hits hard. I remember watching her on reruns of SCTV here. 71, imho, is too young.

Photo editing: darktable
Digital Art: Krita
Illustrator type stuff: Inkscape

Pain: Gimp. although the PhotoGIMP plugin makes it bearable.

OR wait for the recent wine patch to mature a bit more and then you can literally just use Photoshop.

Still waiting on Ro Khanna to “draft” those charges against her.

At this point I think he just likes to hear the sound of his own voice.