You never see it mentioned, but PCLOS is a great Linux starter OS. It was started by Bill Reynolds, TexStar, and is tock solid. It is my go-to when installing Linux for new users because it is extremely stable, has a great community, and avoids anything bleeding edge.

www.distrowatch.com is a great place to get an overview of most Linux and BSD distros.

Are you sure about them not wanting polio to return? Anti-vaxxers are calling for it to happen.

My picture from the 50s is mom pregnant with No.5 (me), while dad is not in the photo because he ran off to parts unknown with the neighbor. Good times.

We must have the ability to bomb our colonial African nations into submission.

Do they sell ASUS in your area? I bought a 2nd hand 14" Vivobook with a Ryzen 5 GPU and it runs Fedora 42 like a champ. First laptop I’ve ever owned that I don’t worry about overheating. It’s been my chuck-it-in-a-backpack travel machine for two years with no problems.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

If only he had done something early to protect Columbia students and California farm workers. He did nothing, thinking he would never get deported because he is white and believes in truth, justice, and the Amerikkkan way. By not defending Julian Assange, he left Clark Kent open to arrest.

The government is closing in on replacing all government PCs. https://techhq.com/news/open-source-china-linux-kylin-kernel-desktop-de-microsoft/

I think we are looking in the wrong direction. China is the place to watch for an explosive growth of Linux and the exclusion of M$-Mossad. They have committed to replacing Windoze on all government computers and servers with KylinOS by 2026. This is not a city here and a city there, but the entire country. PC and Laptop makers will then offer units with openKylinOS. Not sure if phones will follow suit, or switch to Harmony Next.

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The Soviet program is still haunted by the ghost of a frozen Laika in perpetual orbit.

I wonder if this was when tape delayed live streams were invented?

From a network that pushed Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction with zero proof they existed and mountains of evidence they didn’t, does this really come as a surprise?

I’ve discovered that I don’t much care which distro I’m using, it’s the DE that matters most. I have Fedora GNOME, Debian GNOME, and openSUSE GNOME running on different machines. I can’t really tell much difference until I enter the command line or package manager, and even then, it’s the front end of the command that changes while the backend stays mostly the same. Flatpak has made the difference between distros even fewer.

Slackware users, “Those Arch users are crazy.”

If the 'toons represent the working class, then ignoring them is very appropos of what the politicians do.

Just another tool in the toolbox. Use it or not, up to the user. I’ve even seen Slackware users who say they use Flatpak to ward off dependency rabbit holes.

Just purchased a new PC and was surprised it didn’t play Donna Summer when I first booted it up.

Question for the tech savvy, why Linux instead of FreeBSD? China’s KylinOS started out as a FreeBSD fork before switching gears to Linux. Wouldn’t the FreeBSD license be better suited to governments?

And the generals promise not to sweep any increase in sexual assault under the rug like most militaries do.