Fedora is way more involved than Manjaro, and I wouldn’t recommend it to newbies.

First time I touched Fedora (that was 1,5 years into my Linux journey), I immediately borked it very hard when trying to install Nvidia drivers. For about a year that I used it since, it has shown itself as a generally stable, but involved distro that allows the user to shoot themselves in a foot and doesn’t shy away from turning folks to terminal. So, it’s decent for experienced users, but it’s certainly not for everyone, and especially not for newbies.

So, what do you propose for newbies? Ubuntu, with all its dumpster fire? Mint, that, for all its merits, stubbornly refuses modern frameworks? Debian, that will have a newbie drown in documentation? Manjaro isn’t perfect, and there are negatives to write about it as well, but it relies on Arch for good reasons that are often omitted. Arch is truly community-based, rolling release, highly supported, and very fast, which allows to bring all the recent niceties of Linux to any and all machines, no matter how close they are to the potato and how new the user is to the ecosystem.

Neither CachyOS nor EndeavourOS get out of the way same as Manjaro. CachyOS doesn’t even ship with app store by default, which is an immediate yuck for someone who needs a “just conveniently works out of the box” distro.

Manjaro is the only Arch derivative that allows you to never even think you have Arch under the hood. It has all sorts of QoL improvements and graphical settings for everything, it has a smooth and beautiful integration of all package sources (something Arch is notoriously bad with), and if you don’t need AUR, package delay prevents breaking changes, helping you not to think about managing your system.

Manjaro is not for everyone, and it will definitely not satisfy a typical Arch demographic, as it’s made with different people in mind. Hence such an opinionated take on your side. Recent management issues don’t help, either, but that’s exactly what they’re trying to take action against.

In any case, it was Manjaro that served as my gateway to Linux, and it couldn’t have been smoother. No other distro I played around with made me feel confident in switching.

In my experience, AI models are fairly good at contextual search. That’s the only thing I use them for.

PortProton is a mighty thing in my experience. Has both a game library and the ability to add apps to app menu in two clicks.

As the name implies, offers a wide offering of Proton versions (Steam, GE, CachyOS, GDK, EM, Sarek, version for HoYoPlay…), as well as Wine. Can detect popular games and choose perfect settings. Has one-click installs for some popular games and launchers. Available as Flatpak.

Downsides: the only languages available are English, Russian and Spanish, and advanced config can be more involved than with Lutris. In fairness though, you’ll barely ever need it.

China is mostly focused on economic growth, which they don’t need to go to cold war over. Their political ambitions are mostly focused on the nearby regions.

For the US leaders, however, it’s a matter of global political dominance, which they are losing.

To be more precise, both China and the US pursue economic dominance, but they do so through different means. China makes high-risk, high-reward investments, and the US militarily forces the countries under their influence. So, it’s only a “war” for the US, while China is totally fine with multipolar world.

It was somewhat different with USSR, where it was indeed political on both ends.

Are there any benefits to using Bonfire over simply Mastodon/Misskey?

Open Science Network, though, is promising, but I don’t understand why the same group develops OSN and Bonfire. Am I missing something?

My experience with Genshin Impact: -Tried it (Only the starter region, Mondstadt), thought it was healthily dynamic, but ultimately very childish -Left it for about 2 years -Then my gf has shown me what goes beyond and I had to accept the game has merits

The storytelling beyond Mondstadt gets a more serious turn, presents interesting and divisive dilemmas and unexpected plot twists - so much so that I wouldn’t recommend it to children, actually. The battle mechanics also change and deepen as you unlock new characters and visit new regions.

Still, gacha mechanics heavily ruin the game for me. I’m here for the story, not the endless casino. Wish I would get my own private server up and running at some point in the future to remove these mechanics and just play to my heart’s content.

Final boss

The game still is mostly single player. But, as most gacha games, Genshin Impact is online-only, mostly so that you couldn’t cheat in any resources you want without paying them a hefty price.

It was like that from the very beginning.

Steam runs them just fine with Proton Experimental as well

We all know analysts with fancy chromatographs are the coolest

The most interesting part is that you can make 0 squares and still have a square

More square holes = more surface = more syrup in the dip!

not that different now, are we

I see

I see the point

Absolutely. I think we should still encourage good behaviors, while at the same time remembering that we merely provide a different perspective that takes time to bake in.

We cannot expect someone who is broken or taught wrong to flip a switch and become good out of sheer desire to be so.

Taught behaviors take a long time to change, this is just how neurons operate. With enough time and positive influence (including positive example), a person can retrain themselves to do better. Besides, to do so, they should first know for themselves what is right and what is wrong, and your perspectives might differ.

You can, if you’re part of a large military alliance, allowing each member to contribute a little to get a lot of defense capability. Accumulation of weapons makes military escalation more likely. And all these “defensive” weapons can be turned to an offensive any second.

I think the intervention of other countries should exist, but mostly as humanitarian aid and peace brokerage. Not as arming one side or another.

2. Woah

Because eating meat means you support the hierarchy of people over animals or something?

And it’s cool! Someone needs to bring stuff up