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  • Fuck it, give me your most OVERRATED Distros

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  • Although I like NixOS, I have to agree with the documentation being crap. Which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so damn different. I mean, other distros have bad documentation, I just read some man pages or check the Arch or Fedora docs.

  • Fuck it, give me your most OVERRATED Distros

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  • Gonna go with Manjaro. I can't, for the life of me, understand why it gets the support it does. It's not fantastic to begin with, with an apparently incompetent management team. Add in that all the theming is flat and lifeless, and I'm just confused.

    I mean, any Arch derived distro with an "easy installer" kinda confuses me. Archinstall is fairly easy to use (although a bit ugly), and most other Arch based distros seem to miss what I see as the main point of Arch: getting to know and personalize your system. So things like Endeavor, Xero, etc. Don't make a lot of sense to me either. But at least they're not effectively accidentally DDOSing the AUR...

  • Police arrest pastor accused of molesting 8 North Korean defector children

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  • Every time I read that phrase (amen brother), I hear it in my head in Hulk Hogan's voice. Is that weird?

  • What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

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  • Honestly I promise you're better off using a better organization system than dump it on the desktop... But I can totally solve that problem for you!

    It's a little tough to explain, but what you're looking for is a different Desktop Environment. Fedora Workstation uses Gnome, which doesn't do desktop icons by default. I love it, but it's not for everyone.

    Fortunately, this is Linux so you have a choice!

    If you want to stick with Fedora, use the KDE or Cinnamon spin. Check the Fedora Spins page:

    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/

    KDE is super customizable and modern, with lots of fun stuff you can do with the desktop, while Cinnamon is a bit less flexible but more familiar for folks coming from Windows. Either way, you can clutter up your desktop to your heart's content 😁.

    Either way, it's still Fedora underneath.

    If you really want to try something not Fedora, then you could go Linux Mint if you like the way Cinnamon looks; they invented that Desktop Environment, and make what might be the most beginner friendly Linux Distro:

    https://linuxmint.com/

    If you'd rather KDE and want something. other than Fedora, then I can suggest KDE Neon. It's actually handled by the KDE project itself:

    https://neon.kde.org/

    Hope that helps, and if you have any more questions, I'll help if I can.

  • Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?

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  • Yeah, that's the one. I figured I'm small potatoes so no one's gonna bother looking it up. It never even occurred to me that someone might have already seen it lol.

  • Alright, you know what? I'll be switching.

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  • As a complete Linux noob coming from Windows, I'd say Mint is the way to go. If you're worried about Cinnamon being too heavy, Mate is much lighter and a lot of fun. I'm especially fond of their file browser Caja.

    Your second choice, Fedora, is my go to system, and I'll cheerfully sing it's praises. If you want to go that way, check out the KDE, Cinnamon, XFCE, or LXDE spins, but I will say it's a bit less beginner friendly. Make sure you enable the non-free repositories when you log in for the first time!

  • Police arrest pastor accused of molesting 8 North Korean defector children

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  • most Christians now days represent almost everything Jesus spoke against.

    As an atheist, I find it surreal that I behave more in line with Christ's teachings than most Christians I know. And I know the bible better, which is also weird.

  • Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?

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  • Yes, that was the gist of their point I think. The thinking being that choosing the lesser evil is still choosing evil. My point was that if evil is going to win no matter what you do, isn't it better to pick which evil you're going to have to deal with?

  • What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

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  • I have! NixOS is great, I'm a big fan. I suppose if anything could replace Fedora as my favorite, Nix could.

  • What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

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  • Well, they all have their own strengths. I guess my favorites would be, in no particular order:

    • Arch - Elegant and minimalist, Arch is where you go if you want to learn how your system works. But what I love most about Arch is the wiki. About 75% of the time, I can solve any problem I run into on any distro by referencing that wiki.
    • Debian - easy to use and with rock-solid stability. The website is terrible though.
    • Fedora is the one I always come back to, though. It's got a great balance between cutting edge and stability, it's easy to use, I'm strangely attached to DNF, and it just sorta feels like home. The community is nice too.

    I like some others; Nobara is great if you're a gamer, KDE Neon gives you an awesome and stable KDE environment, and Linux Mint is perfect for.beginners.

  • Low effort meme

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  • Okay, that's hilarious, but I fucking hate that meme. Not as much as that one with Pooh in a top hat, but I still hate it.

  • Police arrest pastor accused of molesting 8 North Korean defector children

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  • Kinda feel like the number of times pastors, priests, and other religious leaders have gotten caught doing this reflects some kind of pattern, I just can't seem to put my finger on it...

  • Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation

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  • Kinda curious as to what actual Asian folks, whether currently in Asia or of Asian descent, think.

    I don't use the term anyway because I'm an old grognard and couldn't grok the lingo, but it seems to me that they're the ones other folks should be listening to on this.

  • Wholesome announcer

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  • I want to go to there…

  • What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

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  • I install and set up operating systems. It's something I do to my own computer regularly, but I'll cheerfully do for someone else because it's fun.

    Linux is my favorite, but I can do Windows, Free/Open/Dragonfly BSD, Haiku, and given time to research others as well. I keep meaning to give NetBSD a shot...

    It gives me a focused task with a specific end goal that requires some technical knowledge, but mostly preparation, research, and troubleshooting skills. The activity can sometimes lift me out of a depressive episode for a while.

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  • You're not charging enough.

  • Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?

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  • I recently got into a long, really dumb argument. I used the phrase "lesser of two evils" and what seemed like fifty people (actually two or three) seemed to think that meant I approved of, strenuously endorsed, and would defend the actions of the "lesser evil."

    To me, this seemed like a basic misunderstanding of what the phrase meant, so I defined it. Their response to my definition was to say the same sort of thing they'd already said while claiming to totally know what "lesser of two evils" meant.

    I lost my cool, and explained what the phrase meant again. One of the folks explained themselves calmly while the others seemed to think I was a congenital idiot because I kept repeating myself.

    I don't want this to get any longer, so I'll just say that we were talking past each other. Nobody (well, except fr the one guy who stopped to explain what he meant) was really comprehending what the other person said. So everyone was a dumbass, basically. Story of my life, really.

    At least, I think that's what happened. Watch the asshole who called me a liar and an idiot show up here to not explain how I'm a liar and an idiot again.

  • What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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  • Okay, I think I understand now.

    What you're talking about sounds wonderful. It sounds hopeful, like things could actually change. It's not all that crazy to think it could work. It's not really all that different from what the Founders were setting out to do, but with an extra two and a half centuries of cultural advancement and the knowledge that all people really are created equal - not just white dudes who own property lol.

    So yeah. I get what you're saying. And I can totally respect it. And anyone saying you not voting helps the opposition is kinda missing the point of opting out. Kinda like I was missing the point until someone (you) finally took the time to explain it properly, and I took the time to listen.

    So thank you.

  • What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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  • I... don't get you. I feel really dumb, but you're going to have to explain it to me a bit more.

    I get that no one is better than anyone on a basic human rights level. That makes intuitive sense to me. And I'm all for a cultural paradigm shift. I'm also 100% in favor of a massive overhaul of the entire government, up to and including a complete re-write of the Constitution and the bill of rights (I feel like we, as a nation, can do better than a founding document that defines some humans as being worth only 3/5ths of others, for instance).

    But how?