Are you telling me I’m not just supposed to type sudo apt install ./thing-that-i-wanna-install?

Left unity and right unity are both mythical unicorns that do not exist except for momentary periods in history.

Even amongst various “leninist” ideologies there are significant strategic differences and different ideas for what socialism itself looks like.

There are like, 100s of different Nazi, fascist, and Christian-Nationalist groups in the US. They don’t get along either, even if their ideologies have considerable overlap.

Both sides will temporarily put aside their differences to have protests, rallys, etc, but those are temporary.

I download .debs all the time off this or that GitHub.

So then, really, swanstation is better anyway.

Even among leftists, the AES countries are a sore subject. Most leftcoms, libcoms, trots, hoxhaists, and maoists are critical of places like the DPRK (if they don’t just outright reject them in their entirety.)

I know most people aren’t watching 4k. I loaded 4k because it used more memory. I agree it’s not a realistic workload for someone with a 4gb laptop.

Sorry if I was grouchy.

1. Vencord is running in the background.
2. Most people aren’t watching YouTube in 4k on their computer
3. I have a good bit of stuff cached in memory (as shown by the different colors in htop)

My system uses under 4gb watching a 4k video on youtube. I can’t imagine many people are doing anything much more intensive than that.

You also have to prove you make 2x rent, sometimes 3x rent in order to actually qualify for an apartment (alot of us create fake paystubs for this) :)

We also will have a deposit that is usually 2-3x rent that we are supposed to get back when we move out. However every time this happens the landlords conveniently find damage to the property that didn’t exist the day you moved out so you don’t ever get that money back (or if you do, you only get 25-50% of it). :)

At the place I just moved out of, there was a roach infestation that the landlords refused to hire a pro to take care of that got entirely out of hand. They are holding my deposit for this. :)

You also aren’t allowed to have anyone stay over longer than 3 days if they aren’t on the lease without prior approval from the landlord. :)

Edit: Sometimes people have to get renters insurance too. :)

As long as it looks good, whatever.

Forget everything anyone told you about Linux, think of each distro as its own OS.

Flatpak and Snap are the ones that work with everything and are the closest equivalents to .exe files. App images are kinda like the portable apps that were popular like 10-15years ago on windows. (Anyone remember using portable Firefox on a flashdrive?)

In addition to these each distro has its own kind of package format. (.DEB, .APK, .RPM, etc)

Just because 2 distros share a package format doesn’t mean they are compatible, in the same way a winxp .exe might not work on win11.

Idk if windows still has a 32bit version, or if it has an ARM version, but that’s what the .amd64 and .arm64 thing is for. Most people want .amd64.

Except for the .RPM package (which is presumably a Fedora package) all of these are clearly labeled by distro (Debian 10, Debian 11, Ubuntu, etc).

If you have a 64bit CPU and run Debian 11, you want:

debian-11-amd64.deb

but why run this over flatpak,snap,or appimage?

Disk space. System packages like this do not bundle the dependencies to run the application with it. Instead the dependencies are installed on the system a single time and shared between all applications.

Nowadays there is a push to migrate to using things like flatpak and snap but some old school Linux heads don’t really want to for either political reasons or just because it’s different than what they are used to.

I’m a big big fan of Debian. The installer can be a little intimidating for newbies but I think it’s a great all-around “throw it at the wall” kinda Linux distro. Ubuntu is based on it so you’ll find similarities between them.

All the power to ya! Doesn’t matter if it’s Stable, Testing, or Unstable, if it works for you that’s all that matters.

There is a way to “pin” package versions isn’t there?

I wonder if that would prevent this kind of thing from uninstalling a package that is in transition. Ofc, it wouldn’t get any updates, but I’d take that over just not having the package.

Flatpak works though!

Debians testing branch might be a good shout. Packages stay pretty up-to-date and usually stuff doesn’t break. Worst case you can pull a package from unstable when needed.

You have total free will. You can choose to follow or break the laws, you can go do drugs or be a hobo somewhere if that’s the life you want to live.

Life is just your will to do something. And if you lose the freedom and will to do anything, you’re, in my mind, already dead.

I think linux distros are a coinflip on if they like your hardware or not, sometimes it feels like they just don’t like you individually as a person.

When I use fedora for example, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. It’s in theory not any more complicated than debian, but I’ve never had good luck keeping a fedora system healthy.

With Debian, usually the best troubleshooting tip I can give people is try installing testing instead of stable. Sometimes the kernel in stable is just too damn old for the hardware you want to install on.

The best thing you can do is just never center white people. 99.999% of the time that’s the wrong way to frame your argument.

I fully understood what you were trying to say, but I can’t say the responses you got are at all that surprising either.

👍 Will do!

Eyy, I appreciate the green light.

I sent him a message on discord so we will see!