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    • Gaming is less stable overall but it’s exponentially better now thanks to Valve and the Steam Deck driving support. Like seriously, from a cointoss whether it even launches a couple years ago to 74% Gold or Platinum on the top 1000 games on Steam.
    • Programming is easier (you can ask your commandline to install all you need at once instead of having to painstakingly individually install and set up requirements or addons to programming languages), but you don’t have access to Visual Studio if you’re working on C# or C++.
    • Web browsing is identical, watching movies too. I’ve never had a problem using LibreOffice and OnlyOffice as a replacement for Word and PowerPoint, but I don’t use many complicated features in Word or PowerPoint so your mileage may vary.
    • Photoshop, Premiere, etc are a pain to get good replacements for, OBS for recording and DaVinci Resolve for editing is a really powerful pair though.
    • I vouch for Mint with XFCE too. It was very fast on my laptop and some of the themes now are pretty. It barely uses any RAM. It has a Windows-style start menu and taskbar.

    Just be warned that your family members will probably have (usually solvable) issues if they want to do anything beyond web browsing. It’s a different operating system after all and it works differently in a lot of ways. Definitely recommend looking up some videos about Mint, XFCE, transitioning from Windows to Linux.






  • Unpopular? That’s the word you’d use to describe Ukraine surrendering? Just “unpopular”? Putin rejected his (ostensibly) real goal of Ukraine being barred from NATO before the war even started in order to seek out deeper goals and political control. Then he ran the independence referenda in the Russian-army-occupied settlements, that claimed “independence” over the entire regions (a large chunk of which Russia didn’t even control).

    Those referenda are currently a part of Putin’s non-negotiables for a peace deal. So then why would you ever characterise it as Ukraine bringing it on themselves? That they’re the ones who aren’t being serious about negotiations? Are they “prolonging” the war for fun? I hope you don’t actually buy this and it’s just a contrarian bit.




  • Another scenario would be if Ukraine does in fact lose - and at this point, it is looking likely - that Washington can attribute their loss to Kiev’s inability to take their advice.

    Very interesting assessment. They trained 9 new brigades for this counteroffensive and are committing a minimal force at the moment. I don’t understand the demographic they’re trying to capture with this article, it just seems a bit silly. If there’s no visible progress by September and with a much greater dedicated force than now then sure I think we should worry; the war is far from over and there is a dangerous road ahead for Ukraine.