Yugopnik chadposting in these dire times is probably my favorite thing about all this. Him blazing up on stream when he heard about Charlie Kirk getting smoked was amazing.
I don't think regular Arch is the best for new Linux users at all but their are a few Arch based distros with graphical installers.
I'd you are trfh savvy, the Arch install process should be ok though.
Of the 2 you suggested, u would go with Kubuntu. KDE is a very popular desktop environment and Ubuntu is solid. I've moved distros quite a bit but always go back to Ubuntu-based. I've been on Mint for the last 6 or so years.
I don't have many impressive things to show off and I mostly only do digital books but this is my 1932 copy of State and Rev. I hate opening it because it's so brittle it feels like the pages are gonna fall out. I found it at a local book store ran by a cool AnCom dude.
When referring to both groups, I commonly use "neo-liberal" but similar to what knfrmity said, only communists will know it's derogatory. I'm also warming up to "neo-feudalist".
I do all my pirating with Transmission as my torrent client, so both?
A long time ago I pirated because I was poor and wanted to play Skyrim and stuff. I'd download movies occasionally too but streaming services came along and I mostly didn't need to pirate anymore. Then the streaming industry boomed and the enshitification started. I got real sick, real fast with not being able to fined common movies that were either exclusive to a service I didn't have or was behind a paywall of some other sorts.
So, I donned the hat again, beefed up security wit ha VPN, got a 6 TB hard drive, set up both Jellyfin and Plex(I need my IP addy to log into Jellyfin and kids and partner don't know how to retrieve that so Plex is the backup.) and went back to the high seas. I pay substantially less to watch almost anything I want, than to trudge through 7 different streaming apps trying to find that one movie or show. It helps when you realize pirating against streaming apps only hurts those companies and not the creators themselves(unless you take all of the services originals into account, which is a cache 22 since anything that would catch my eye got cancelled after 2 seasons).
Easy there wizard. In my defense I don't hang out in a terminal all that much anymore.