The thing with Debian distros (like Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS) is that they’re extremely stable releases. This does not necessarily mean everything “just works”, but rather that they will not experience major code changes that could disrupt a working system. This means that if some apps don’t work out of the box, that state is going to be pretty much the same in any distro based on the same Debian version.

A more “agile” distro might be less stable, but as a result could see some updates to apps that Debian is still lagging behind on. Fedora is probably the “next step” in this direction: it’s still reliable but gets updates more frequently than Debian (it’s sort of a “proving ground” for code before it gets pulled into Red Hat, which is a distro focused on long-term stability).

As for desktop environments: I’ve always thought GNOME was the most Mac-like DE, but KDE has enough configuration options that you can kind of turn it into anything you want. Since this is on a very old laptop, you might consider LXDE, which isn’t the prettiest DE, but it’s super lightweight and might let you squeeze out a bit more performance if you’re wasting a lot of compute power just rendering the desktop.

Man, this infographic is like, EXACTLY why people are scared of Linux, lol.

It has a lot of good info but it’s just so overloaded. Can’t decide what story it wants to tell so it tells like 7 of them.

Not that there’s much reason to be charitable towards Musk, but if you’re in the mood:

Even if you don’t think so, they’ve essentially been grabbing handfuls of cables and yanking then out, no guarantees they even know HOW to restore everything how it was.

This is my experience playing with FreeBSD.

“These ports are cool, I can compile all the software from source so I know exactly what I’m getting!”

[This software has 100 dependencies]

“Well I’m not reading all that, I’ll just click Yes for all”

At least 3

This is going to hurt me, and I did as hell didn’t vote for him

This is more like Stalin’s Great Purge

The Lizardman Constant is about 4%. So that leaves 11% unaccounted for.

And so was Jan6. And here we are.

Even wearing super cyclical goggles, it doesn’t make sense for reddit to intervene here. Twitter is a competitor, why would they want to encourage people to link to a competitor?

Alright, let’s run a quick pacman -Syu to get everything squared up before I start this time- critical task.

…oh fuck

Joseph Stalin: famous right wing politician

You don’t have to think sex is bad to think porn is bad for children and teens.

This Texas law and others like it are bullshit, but making strawman arguments about them isn’t helping anything.

The troubled teen industry is a fucked up place.

Elan.school is a great story of one of those awful places.

TikTok gets banned for being Chinese Spyware.

Facebook gets an aww shucks for being American Spyware.