god thats fresh comedy, you should go do stand up and put that in your tight five, well meme'd!
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Correct, both are bad. It's just the pot calling the kettle black.
I don't know about you, but I think the Afghan invasion we pulled out of in 2021 is a current example.
How about the time our government tried to coup Bolivia in 2020? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/18/silence-us-backed-coup-evo-morales-bolivia-american-states
And let's not forget our current backing of Israel bombing civilians of the Gaza strip and Palestine, no matter who's in charge of the oval office.
We don't have secret police, we call them undercover agents.
Please tell the Black Lives Matters protestors who were routinely beaten to the curb and tear gassed for expressing a first amendment "right" that they aren't under surveillance.
Please tell the Portland protestors who were kidnapped by Trump-led federal agents they are living in a normal country.
I'm sure Snowden is thankful he's able to live freely after exposing that an international spying agreement was gone, and didn't have to go into hiding. Same for Chelsea Manning who 100% wasn't put into solitary confinement and forbidden to talk to the public.
If revealing the truth that your government is committing crimes is punished, you are being ruled by criminals.
Hi OP, I would like to state that my personal distro of choice is Arch, but I have used a wide selection of the more popular and some niche distros.
First of: Just remember that as long as your distro works for your workflow and requirements, you're doing fine. Don't fall for some guilt of "This one is way better because of [subjective opinion for their needs]."
If you want to experiment with distros, just remember to backup your files. One is none, two is one.
Do you have newer hardware such as a brand new NVIDIA or AMD graphics card, or perhaps a new CPU chipset from Intel that came out this year? Then a rolling distro is probably best for you. There's many tempting options, but my personal "sane default" is of course Arch. There is an installer once you load the ISO on a flash drive. Just ensure you have an internet connection. There will be a learning curve.
If you want to have something to guide you along, then Endevour OS is good. While 99% of your questions can be found on /r/archlinux and Arch's forums, they (rightfully) expect you to use Arch for Arch-based questions. It's kind of like asking a question for Ford Mustangs when you drive an F-150. While there's a lot of overlap, it's not 1:1.
But if you have something like a laptop from the last few years or more, or just need to focus on your tasks such as your programing and web browsing, and don't need the latest and greatest, then something more stable is probably best. My top two "I just need it to stay there and remain the same without any worry" distros are:
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Fedora Linux
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Debian Linux
Fedora is going to offer a nice mix of stable yet forward thinking, with major updates rolling out about every 13 months, and it's a pretty smooth experience upgrading.
Debian is the grand daddy of modern distros, and it is considered the gold standard. They recently made it so 99% of firmware support needed is now included for easier installation. The only thing that you'll really get update wise is security fixes and any backports you enable.
Keep in mind, Arch/Endeavor itself will not implode if you don't update daily/weekly, it's just intended to be refreshed often so when anything big is planned, it's done in smaller chunks. If you install Arch and then go to a remote island for a few months, you'll most likely be fine once you get back, but there might be some hiccups.
So if you want more triple A gaming, I think something along Arch/Endevor is "better", but if you don't care about the latest and greatest, then I'd say Fedora is a solid foundation.
Sorry for the small novel, but I wanted to state that there is no explicitly wrong option, all that matters is what you consider important. The defaults, the packages, and your workflow. Anything else is secondary.
Please do not suggest people to use Manjaro.
https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
https://www.hadet.dev/Manjaro-Bad
https://rentry.co/manjaro-controversies
https://averagelinuxuser.com/manjaro-review
Manjaro's maintainers have repeatedly:
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Let SSL certs expire, asking end users to turn back their system clock until they fixed it.
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Told users to make partial updates which often causes packages to break, including mandatory rollbacks on critical packages such as systemd
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Held back packages for ~1-2 weeks to improve stablity, but does not do this for all packages, including the AUR, which causes dependency hell and breakage.
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Rolled out an edit to a AUR package that repeatedly sent requests to aur.archlinux.org which made the servers experience a DDOS attack, impacting all users.
I am not saying this to hate on Manjaro, but to inform OP and others. If they want a stable yet fresher distro, they should choose something more like Fedora or Ubuntu. If they want something rolling, Arch includes an installer in its iso that is really simple to understand.
Edit: I guess I hate Manjaro for pointing out they run their packages horribly. I'm such a bad guy for that. Woes Manjaro.
I do recall a joke about something similar.
"LSD and Unix both came out of UC Berkeley, I do not believe that this is a coincidence."
Please mark as NSFW.
I mean, one is lyrics for a fictional killer, the other is real life spouse abuse. I don't know about you, but real life events are worse than written words.
John physically abusing his family is way worse than lyrics of an intentionally creepy song.
Hey everyone, just a reminder: