I think I’m about ready to switch to something QT based. Whether that is LXQT, KDE, or Trinity is still to be determined.

I’m a long time xfce user and my battle with CSD has ended with me losing. Too much stuff just breaks. I’ve more or less been forced to use adwaita as my theme for everything.

Hell, I’m already running plenty of QT software already.

I use Disroot. Idk if sign-ups are always open though.

Opportunists when they see a tactic with a 100year track record of not working

“if you don’t compromise and vote for the social fascist you’re actually a silly ultra leftist baby wawawa”

I do agree with that, but what will separate him from the rest is if he calls attention to the fact that its happening and still holds firm to his beliefs when the entire establishment is against him.

My issue isn’t that he isn’t pure enough, it’s that he’s running with a bad crowd, and everyone else I can think of who ran with that crowd got neutered into being useless. (AOC comes to mind)

He’s already said that he thinks the police department is an appropriate size and wasn’t gonna increase it. But wasn’t the issue that it was already oversized to begin with? Even in DSA, downsizing and cutting funding for the police is a popular position. The fact that some of his most progressive positions are to the right of many DSA members I’ve met IRL and online does not invoke confidence.

What I see often too is supporters of DSA-Democrats defending their move to the right in order to be more palatable to the general public and win an election, but when you do this YOU become more right wing, the PUBLIC does not move more left. You must always challenge capitalism to have an effective socialist program.

Socialist in words only. No socialist is running as a democrat. Plain and simple.

Yes, I know that its nothing to do with socialist philosophy. Way to entirely misread my point.

He’s a self-described democratic socialist, while being a social democrat. DSA has actual democratic socialist members, just not ones that would stoop as low as to run as a democrat. Anyone who’s had the displeasure of attending a few DSA meetings can see the wide spectrum of ideologies represented within it, more than half of which can hardly be called anything remotely socialist.

The nazi’s were self described “socalists” too. Let’s not take people at their words on these things.

Edit: The point being made here is not that nazi’s were socialist (they weren’t) nor is it to paint Mamdani as a nazi. The point is him calling himself a socialist means nothing.

Yep. Really tired of people pretending Mamdani is some godly savior of NYC.

He’s just another succdem, and he’ll show his true colors (if he already hasn’t) sooner or later.

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TUI stuff is so underrated. I’d gladly run them exclusively.

I so badly want to do the “old man yells at cloud” meme and be angry that Bazzite is so popular.

I want to do it, I’m resisting hnnnngg

Atomic bad because different and I don’t like things that are different. 🧓

I vastly prefer/recommend stable LTS distros. There are really 2 main families of distros for this:

1. Linux Mint / Ubuntu LTS / Debian Stable (Ubuntu is based on Debian, Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS):

Basically endless amount of packages. Most people in the linux world have some familiarity with these so it shouldn’t be hard to get help if you need it.

2. Rocky linux / Almalinux / RHEL (Rocky and Alma aim to be compatible with RHEL software):

For desktop systems people usually opt for fedora, but that distro does not meet my own criteria. Biggest reason you’d use these is for professional VFX software support. For whatever reason a lot of that stuff only has official support for this family of distros. Not sure why!

Get good at 1 of these families of distros. If you aren’t vibing with one its okay to switch to the other. Both have more cutting edge options if you desire them.

Linux Mint is a community favorite and very much is built with a desktop user in mind, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to subject someone to learning any of the others even if they are more server focused. Everything I listed has atleast 5 years of support! If your fiancee isn’t super tech literate, you’ll probably be the one doing a lot of the system maintenance so keeping those major updates sparse is a very good thing. And of course, if you don’t wanna learn 2 different sets of tools, try and keep in the same family of distros.

Also, for desktop environment don’t choose anything crazy obscure. KDE & Gnome are most common, Cinnamon & XFCE are less common but IMO fine. Venture into others at your own peril.

Transfer process depends on what you mean. Transferring your files will probably just take time. I’m hopelessly unorganized so for me backing stuff up takes a few days of combing through a bunch of junk and copying to a flashdrive or cloud storage. Other people might have more efficient ways of dealing with this though.

If you mean software Libreoffice is great local office software, SMplayer is imo a good media player, GIMP, Inkscape, and Krita got art stuff covered. We’re also at the point you can more or less run most windows software on linux with enough fiddling, but that obviously isn’t ideal.

Your biggest hurdle moving to linux full time will be understanding commands when you inevitably do need to change configuration of something with the terminal. If you need help there are usually forums, IRC, matrix, etc.

Happy computing!

I’m gonna be honest, its been so long since I’ve actually had people to set it up and use it with that even I would need to spend a day and a half figuring out how to set it up again.

I less have an issue with people getting trapped in software they understand is insecure, and more with people who will push shit like telegram and pretend its the most private and secure thing ever invented. If they want to use discord, sure, fine with me. As long as they know not to do their activist work on discord I’m fine with it. People doing activist work/planning over telegram will never make me not cringe.

Signal isn’t something I personally want to use, but its tolerable, and it was doing a good job of replacing telegram in activist spaces I felt, but I’ve recently seen a few different groups using telegram again because they don’t trust signal.

xmpp with omemo is what I wish I could get people to use but uh, well, that just will never happen.

Maybe not true for phones, but the linux desktop IS usable day to day, and I’d say this has been true for atleast the last 5 years. KDE and GNOME are both fully fledged desktops, and with the popularity of snaps and flatpaks there isn’t really alot getting in the way of software installation either. Even wine/proton has come so far I don’t see the “linux bad for gaming” as an actual excuse anymore.

I started using linux exclusively on desktop in 2021 and I’m not any kind of programmer or anything, just a regular user. :)

This is gonna be a lot of work, like, a lot a lot of work.

You’re on the right track, I think antix is your best starting point. Its the closest you’ll get to a fully featured distro. Damn Small Linux would maybe be my next choice, but I’m not sure if development is ongoing.

Regardless, you want something without systemd. Im personally hopeless without it, but there are plenty of people who daily drive openrc, runit, etc so it’s possible with determination.

id probably do 3gb of swap, maybe more if you are crashing a lot. I suspect even if you keep memory usage down you will be swapping A LOT. If you had even 1gb more memory I’d be less worried, but you’re cutting it close.

If that’s still not light enough, you could try using CDE or Motif as a desktop.

On a modern system built around modern philosophies, its convenient. Doing stuff on systemd seems very intuitive to me and feels like a bit less work than the alternatives (atleast from my non-developer POV). If systemd hadn’t become the standard maybe my opinion would be different, but most of the time it “just works”.

On an older system, the alternatives are definitely lighter! If you’re in the group of people who believes every megabyte counts, you care about systemd. There are also oldschool tech nerds who believe systemd is insecure (they might be right idk anything).

Your wifi issues with mint were probably driver related. Ive found especially for newer devices Linux mints kernel is too old and doesn’t always fully support hardware. If you have access to Ethernet or USB hotspot you can likely download and install the newest kernel and fix that issue.

Mint is recommended for a reason, it’s a traditional Linux experience, it’s stable, and it looks familiar to newbies. Plus, lots of us Linux nerds use Debian/Ubuntu (what mint is based on) so it’s easier for us to help you.

I use Debian as my main distro. Ive played with stable, testing, and unstable over the past few years. I’m confident Trixie is perfectly fine for stable. It looked fine the last few months I used it in testing.

If old stable didn’t impress you, Trixie isn’t gonna be any different. The hype is just because a release happened, we don’t get those in Debian land very often.