I have seen your posts here for a few months and you are far more knowledgeable than I am in Linux. However, I have to say I disagree here. I did use Slowroll for two months and found no problem, nor a need for much wikis, if any… now, I dont have nvidia so maybe that is why. The main developer of Slowroll is awesome (personable and reachable) and his professionalism is what make him not categorize his Slowroll as stable so it is not listed as such. He has previously mentioned the challenges he is facing with the concept, but that can be addressed in due time. Most people in OpenSUSE should use either Tumbleweed or Leap for now.

Regarding OpenSUSE, it is a tad behind Fedora in refinement but minimal. Its biggest handicap, however, is its small footprint in the Linux marketplace, yet still amazing what they had pulled off with their limited resources.

Your beloved Mint, oh gosh, how much I tried to like it, but aesthetics and lack of flexibility kills it for me. It is, hands down, the less problem free one, no questions, it is what I recommend most for someone that need a set-it-and-forget-it distro, Mint is still the one. But I just cannot work happy with Cinnamon, even when first started in Linux. One system in the same ubuntu branch that I found almost as reliable as Mint, but with fairly new KDE, is TuxedoOS; more stable than Kubuntu, a bit less than Mint, and close in freshness as Fedora/OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

In this forum probably it is not necessary, but in case you are new on this… HR is there to protect the company and just the company. If HR finds that getting rid of you is easier than of the problem you are complaining about, for the good of the company, they will boot you out. It is not been mean, it is for what they are paid for.

By using Fedora, one helps Red Hat/IBM in different ways:

• With more usage of Fedora, Linux enthusiasts cater to that distro more and more, and Red hat benefits from all that feedback and large customer base. Fedora gets better and Red Hat stands out over the competition.
• With larger customer base, Red Hat’s board approve to allocate more resources to the platform, increasing its competitive advantage.
• With more users of Fedora, Red Hat can find more qualified professionals that grew up using already Fedora, increasing its human capital competitive advantage.

Customer base, paying or no, is a tremendous competitive advantage… that is why Microsoft winked at piracy across the globe for 2 decades so companies purchased their solutions since millions of users already knew how to use them. Of course, once the competition was out, Microsoft started to hike prices tremendously.

Of course, the development of Fedora, since it is FOSS, benefits all the community, but it also feeds the monster in the process that, at the moment they want, they pull the rug on the community that, at that stage, won’t have any companies that can take the lead anymore.

The moral here, if behind Fedora is a company that did bad things for FOSS, that it is owned by a company that contributes with the IDF, and both are based in a country that any day may ban Red hat technology to be distributed to any foreign country of their choosing… why choosing Fedora when plenty of alternatives are equally comparable, more ethical and less prone to manipulation.

Again, don’t take my word, just please find the number of Israeli civilian deaths in “the last 30 years” of “bombings”, they must be so traumatized on these unwarranted thousands of attacks that for 30 years had caused! In the US, fireworks alone killed 11 people last year… that is a ‘bit more’ than Hamas killed with rockets in those last 30 years!

The History books? One of two, by the winner (namely China) or there won’t be history books altogether.

The sad thing is that there is not need to be even an intervention, just some accountability (boycott, arms sales ban,…), and soon enough Israel would find out there is no exit on the current path. Just imagine that countries like Russia, China, Spain, Turkey or Egypt send a strong flotilla with humanitarian aid… would Israel declare war? On what moral or strategic ground? The truth however is that we all are a bunch of cowards and everyone is afraid to be the first to make the first step. But things are shifting, and shifting fast… Americans won’t take long to wake up and demand all financial/weapon aid to be stopped, Europeans already are fed up with Middle Easter adventures and, soon enough, Egypt and Turkey will realize that pivoting away from the US is more beneficial to them. Israel could had rapidly improve their relationship with the neighbors, but instead it thrives in creating havoc since it has worked so good all these years… not for much longer though… they soon, in the middle of their most abrupt and criminal ambitions, will realize how alone they are and that the support from abroad won’t last… and the worse part, is that this change won’t be progressively, it will be abrupt and they wont have time to rectify.

The Samson Option is the real concern for me. But, like I mentioned it will be all the area, not just Iran that will soon turn against Israel so that option just becomes 100% suicidal. The Zionist with power are not religious, they don’t even believe in the after life, they just want power! The powerful Zionists are people, that when they see things turn bad, they won’t think twice of fleeing to the US or Argentina and they know, that even in those countries, they won’t live in peace if they’d triggered the nuclear weapons and killed millions.

Are you being sarcastic? Inform yourself in how in Israel people are being indoctrinated to completely despise Palestinians and consider them worse than rats (and I mean it, I bet a rat in a Israeli street is treated better and with more compassion than a Palestinian 4yr old in Gaza!). The bomb shelter drama pre 2024 were part of the indoctrination. Both Hezbollah and Hamas did not have projectiles that can be aim at anything and overwhelming majority ended in the dessert. I dare you find how many Israeli civilians died between 2010 and 2022… I could not find any data at all (self explanatory) but I bet more died due to a bee sting! Palestinians, however, 5,600 were killed, an increasingly in the later years, and that does not account the tens of thousands imprisoned and tortured ones, inclusive of kids that are at random picked up from the streets or in their beds to no recourse.

Why would it be any deal, one has all the power and an enabler, when not participant, international community, they other has almost nothing. Israel is the only country that I can think of that does not have to support the people that they’d invaded since 7 decades ago.

That is a conundrum but not for us to dictate, but Palestinians themselves.

As an occupier since 1948, Israel has the obligation to maintain the people they had conquered, never did, the international community, rather than the invader, for 7 decades had maintained the Palestinian community. As an occupier, Israel never felt the burden of their policies. Now Israel is in the way to kill and/or expel the entire population on Gaza (West Bank will be next) and expects, again, for the entire world community to pay with the burden. For countries to accept these refugees in masse, it will help the people individually, but it will be complicit in the eradication of a people . And ‘help’ the individuals, is a understatement, most likely the bulk of Palestinians will be send to tents for the rest of their lives in some dessert (for 2nd or 3rd time in their lifetimes!) with no rights of the hosted country either. Let’s not even mention all the hundreds of thousands handicapped and other hundreds of thousands with mental disorders that this orchestrated and meticulously planed genocide has caused them and that will need to be supported, once again, not by the perpetrator, but an enabler international community.

That was 3 years ago. I understand they made a mistake (twice) but ok since then. I think most of the Manjaro criticism is no longer warranted. All distros had made mistakes.

For those of us that despise Red Hat, sorry, but increasing the user base of Fedora, dramatically helps Red Hat’s marketability and profitability (and IBM’s). These companies not only make decisions bad for the FOSS community but way too happy to do business with a country massacring kids as we speak too. Now, I still recommend using Fedora since, as you say they are not straight IBM and they are at the vanguard, yet, for those with a conscience on these matters, there are as equally comparable offers out there.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is pretty solid and 98% of the refinement of Fedora, that in my opinion, it is the most polished of them all. Now, using Fedora supports companies like Red Hat/IBM so it is a no-no for me.

The only thing OpenSUSE has is that is independent so does a few things differently than Debian or Fedora based ones, but after a few retouches that you will learn in no time you will be at the level of Fedora. It is perfectly OK for beginners, just that there are a few things differently, sometimes for the better like many utilities from YAST, but will be different from what you find in most non OpenSUSE forums. Again, is minimal, 95% of the staff is the same. Unfortunately, it does not have the costumer base that Ubuntus/Mint/Fedora has, but the supporters are technically highly committed and competent, they just need to improve in their marketing arena that is what is holding them down.

Another KDE that I like is TuxedoOS. It works perfectly in non Tuxedo devices and very stable in my experience… I even had better stability experience than Kubuntu, and that says a lot.

Did not play enough with Manjaro and will try in a few days. It had some bad press but I think is more due to diverging a bit from Arch philosophy of instant updates than anything else. CachyOS I recommend only for latest computers or those willing to adjust things a bit once in a while.

For older devices, MXLinux KDE is the ideal in integrated graphics chips.

The people here have given some reasons of the hate and some are true and some is just no so much. After years observing however this is my take:

1. As mannycalavera mentioned, Linux users are “contrarian”; yes we tend to repudiate what is the mainstream, and in the Linux world that is Ubuntu. Ironically, Ubuntu did more for making Linux mainstream than anybody else.

2. Ubuntu have amazing technologies but it is usually unable to compete with the competitors that has the no only far more capacity for new development (usually faster, not necessarily more innovative) but also to push it harder into the market.

One thing most people ignore, even among Linux users, is how small Canonical actually is :

• Canonical employees 500 to 800. Red Hat close to 20,000 (and, in top of that, it leverages IBM’s global engine!).
• Canonical makes some $200 million. Red Hat makes $5,300 million.
• Even, SUSE (OpenSUSE) is far larger than Canonical.
• Proportionally, Canonical makes far more contributions to the community than the other 2 companies.

Canonical, if you are listening, here is my recommendation to you:

1. You can both cater to large corporation as a competent and resourceful partner, and also to Linux enthusiast as the cool, approachable, and welcoming collaborator you are. Search for that formula.

2. Get out of London/ Isle of Man. Make a bold move to a new hub that can expand your horizons… Barcelona, Gibraltar or even a bolder move; Mexico, Indonesia,… the UK is dragging you down in costs, image and even talent.

Ok, so of the 7 Billion hike (of the total 64B he aims at!), what is the business case?

Has anyone seen it? Is it 3B for troops and 1B for French made equipment and 3B on American made? Or 6B on American equipment and 1B on troop readiness? What percentage is for contingency? (American made stuff, very easily and practically instantly Trump can make them grounded), is the 7B hike for France defense, or to buy American to directly ship to Ukraine? That, and many others, are question you will never see the media ask, and until there is an answer and accountability, it is just money laundering … pretty much just like shipping airplanes full of sacks of money to Baghdad and expecting desirable outcomes.

It is, don’t feel bad.

I get it, but we are a dying breed Balsoft. The trackpoint requires no hand movement so very efficient but for newcomers they just desist when you put that pressure into your index finger that at first, it may be even be painful; therefore they just give it up at first 5min. Also, I remember when HP made laptops with the nipple (blue and tad larger) and I was not that appealed for it (and probably everyone else) so they stop it making it. There is something else in the ThinkPad red nipple, maybe the symbology of an era. Just for that, I will probably die old in top of a Thinkpad. Now, like i mentioned, if some laptop bold company brings something truly unique, differentiated and practical… I will jump ship.

I see the huge appeal for Framework laptops and kudos for them to make themselves a niche in this tough market.

I stick to used Thinkpads for now though but if Framework (or any other) makes them reasonable upgradable (5-8 screws are fine) a bit waterproof, open BIOS and the Pointing stick, I’ll pay dearly for it! And I am sure I am not alone. Tuxedo, Slimbook, come on… make a bold move here!!

Good point!

So true on the USSR.

On using personal narrative for advance I am fine, but has to be more or less genuine to the context. If I say that my neighbor is horrible because once took my lawnmower and never returned it back and leave the part that he bought me later on a better one because he broke mine… I have been completely disingenuous.

I hear you.

The Catalan police (Mossos), and I had always supported its creation and certain independence from the rest of police forces in Spain, has growth to become a bit too militarized for my taste.

I am not following their work on drug dealers, but the job they are doing with “terrorism” is appalling. There are cases of genuine terrorism but the majority, overwhelmingly majority, are not what they are selling to the media, and they have been doing this for more than a decade already… in brief portrayed disgruntled Muslim immigrants as “terrorists” for sharing files. I presume is half malice, half in a competition drive with the other police forces in Spain to gather recognition and medals. But I should not complain, in the US there is a lot of that too, I was just expecting better of that young and, supposedly, modern and agile police force.

Thanks for the clarification… sorry if it sounded I was going after you, actually I read your comment as you intended.

What I was venting about is about how the media that, today, works as memes only portrayed one side of her story… something like this meme does too. Now, if we are going to be that simplistic, this meme captures far more her experience under the Soviet rule than her moms after WWII.