Bazzite KDE or Aurora. The universal blue distros are rock solid. Both use kde, update in the background and have btrfs and snapshots built in (it defaults to saving your last working config so if a problem update makes it through you can rollback easily). Flatpaks work out of the box with bazaar is a pretty good flatpak storefront (which will turn you gay), and offers a way to install programs that is similar to what someone would be familiar with in android or on an iphone.

The biggest difference between the two is Bazzite has useful gaming software installed and setup by default, and steam layered in, meaning you can’t really uninstall it, because there are a few issues with the flatpak version. Aurora you have to install the gaming related software yourself. If either of them has a flatpak installed by default you can easily uninstall them.

Sometimes an update will switch out a default app, which someone may find annoying, but it’s usually done for a good reason.

If they want to dabble in other things, distrobox and podman/docker are set up and ready to use by default, making it trivial to start using them.

I’ve been running the gnome based ublue, bluefin, and it’s been great and incredibly stable. I would have no hesitation installing it for someone new to linux.

Seems like western nations are incredibly reliant on the little supercomputer in your pocket that monitors and reports all your activity, which would be concerning, but thankfully western nations believe in freedom and aren’t a totalitarian fascist authoritarian 1984 hellscape. Unlike China who will send a mobile execution squad to your home if you save a winnie the pooh jpg on your phone. In fact I think it should be illegal to not have a smartphone on you at all times, and that it should be rigged to explode if you criticize Israel, otherwise the freedom haters will win.

thunar

They want you to use AI to interact with the file system, so they can data mine and serve ads in the results. The file manager is going to slowly get worse in order to encourage you to use the AI agent. Eventually the file manager will only be for nerds, like the terminal.

Probably good:

On 3 March 2024, Embaló visited Jerusalem and expressed support for Israel in the Gaza war.[32] He told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that “Guinea-Bissau and its people are at your side and ready to help you in any way possible.”[33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umaro_Sissoco_Embaló

Windows often doesn’t play nice with the linux partition, and you might have to figure out how to fix the boot partition every once in a while or be locked out of linux.

It’s best to install win and linux on a different drives and use the boot options from the bios to switch which drive you boot into.

I followed him, and from the way he was posting, I don’t think he was able to live with long covid anymore. My guess is he decided to end his life.

I wonder… hmm…

You can do everything with voice commands and eye tracking, and it will work how you want it to 75% of the time!

He wants those rare earths

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/billions-ground-race-harvest-north-koreas-rare-earth-reserves-50137

“Trump is so bad they’ll have to vote for me”

“Trump is so bad they’ll have to vote for me”

Yeah, but after three tours in Iraq and another in Afghanistan, he signed up with fucking blackwater to be a merc. People who do that are evil. I don’t know, maybe he’s a just really really really slow learner?

It’s like bazzite, but not tweaked out for gaming. Essentially Fedora Atomic, but with a good default setup with a bunch of quality of life improvements either built in or easy to implement.

How the fuck can anyone trust this guy? People who are impressed by ex-military assholes are fucking rubes.

I’m on bluefun and it’s been rock solid. Best linux experience I’ve ever had.

This country is fucked.

ICE boosts weapons spending 700%

New spending in the small arms category from January 20, 2025, the day Trump was inaugurated, through October 18, totaled $71,515,762. Most of the spending was on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”

I’ve been running it for several months now and everything about it has has been incredibly solid and trouble-free. You can’t tweak out an install the way you can with other distros, at least not without making your own spin, but nothing ever breaks. Perfect for people who want a good experience right after the install finishes.

Don’t do what diarrhea Donald does