I know, I just wanted to give an access denied for the lolz (especially since I see that message basically every time I run pacman, forgetting to either sudo or run in root shell >.>;; )

error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.

Other comment made great points on MintOS and PopOS for beginning a Linux journey.

SteamOS isn’t available for a full PC release (that I am aware of), but Bazzite was made to be a full-distro alternative to SteamOS. I haven’t tried it myself yet, but it has good reception from what I see.

Linux Mint is very easy to pick up, though, and I highly recommend for someone coming from Windows. It is fully functional through GUI and has several different flavors for the desktop environment. I’m a fan of KDE, but Cinnemon was also very nice. A version of KDE Plasma is what SteamOS 3.0 uses. I’m not as big of a fan of GNOME, but a lot of people love it as a mor elegant, modern desktop environment.

Ah, it seems you’ve passed the litmus test of “having empathy”

Poe’s Law is getting rougher and rougher

Praise be to the Omnissiah!

But think of the poor, starving CEOs! /s

This would also be for federal employees, not state level minimum wage. So postal workers, military bases, etc. Maybe state and local government? I’m not sure if those count as federal positions or not tbh