Linux is Linux.

We should send all those people, pages and guides suggesting distros to hell.

And then instead we suggest update-schemes (fixed, rolling, slow-roll), package managers and Desktop environments. People with enough brain cells to start a computer are then absolutely able to chose a distro fitting them based on that. Everything else coming with a distro is just themeing/branding anyway…

(and just for the use statistic: Archlinux, Opensuse (Leap and Kalpa), Debian here…)

I’ve been using Arch and Manjaro for couple years each and in my experience they both break regularly. But, for some weird reason, Arch Linux is praised, when Manjaro is shamed upon.

No, there is not some weird reason but actual very good ones.

Things can break on a bleeding edge update scheme. That’s to be expected from time to time. But the questions are “why did it break” and “what is done to fix it”.

If something breaks on Archlinux it’s because of some new package with a issue that escaped testing. Then the fix come out as fast as possible (often within minutes even, but let’s assume hours as those things need to move through mirrors first…).

If something breaks on Manjaro it’s either because of the exact same reason as above, but 2 weeks later. Because Manjaro keeps back updates for two weeks “for stability reasons”, yet doesn’t do anything in those 2 weeks. So they just add the same problem later, completely defeating the argumant about stability. Oh, and fixes are of course kept back for 2 weeks, too, because… reasons.

Or it breaks because they fucked up their internal QA. For example by letting their certificates expire again and again and again and again… of by screwing up their very own pacman-wrapper and then ddos’ing the AUR for all users, not only Manjaro ones.

Or -speaking about the AUR- it breaks because they give their users full access to the Arch User Repository (without any warnings about user content being less reliable and used at your own risk) pre-installed. Also they do it on a system generally out-of-date because it lags 2 weeks behind. Which is not what AUR packages are build for (they assume up-to-date systems) and is a straight path to dependency hell and breakings… not because something went wrong but because the whole concept of an out-of-date system not running their own also 2-weeks behind version onf the AUR is idiotic. On the “plus” side they have an easy fix: blame the user, because he should obviously know that an pre-installed part of Manjaro is conceptionally flawed and shouldn’t be trusted.

Right decision but for the wrong reason.

Yes, wages increased by 6% in 2023 already, for a slight increase in real wages while inflation was high. With a lot of the lifting being done by thelast quarter +5,6% wages vs. 3% inflation. For the first quarter of 2024 it’s +6,4% wages vs. 2,5%… oh, and the usually focused group of low earners is at the top with +8,8%.

Now we are down too 2% inflation… and you still pretend this actual target number aimed for is still rising faster than wage growth.

The last time real wages sunk was in 2022, so we had 1½ years of increased inflation adjused wages already, with inflation still going down.

Wages are rising. When they are rising slower than inflation you lose byuing power. When they rise faster than inflation your buying power increases. The latter is the case for quite some time already. So now the increase is happening faster even.

“We lose buying power because there is still inflation” is the most idiotic “I neither understand inflation nor economy”-argument in quite some time.

Yes, again. And again and again and again and again. Until they succeed. Then the next step in destroying our privacy will be aimed for. Again…

when it could also be said on pretty much any other rule (e.g. spam)

Spam is much easier to evaluate objectively. Feeling insulted isn’t. Especially when some people make it their whole personality to feel insulted by any opposing viewpoint or opinion. Which then leads to constantly getting reported for not sharing their views, which leads to more scrutiny if anything you said could actually be perceived as insulting. Add mods becoming tired or just plain old statistics… you can probably follow my train of thought.

PS: And as any other cynic will tell you… that’s not cynical but just speaking from experience.

We are clarifiying the rules regarding acceptable behavior in discussion: be kind & argue in good faith.

I have seen that idea so many times over the years, yet the simple fact is: it does never ever work.

There will always be one side actually arguing (in good faith) and one side reporting every opinion they don’t like. And wheather it’s mods just becoming tired, subconciously influenced by the fact how often some people got reported already or just a simple matter of statistics with a lot of reporting… in the end the former group will get punished and stop to contribute while the latter doesn’t give a fuck and will just circumvent the rules with a new account should their bullshit backfire for once.

TL;DR: hard rules work, wishy-washy nonsense like “be nice to each other” doesn’t.

A “conservative” opposition that made a sharp turn to right-wing populism and is spending the years since they got voted out by parroting far-right AfD narratives while also adding their own take on desinformation at every corner… and sadly the media has failed for quite some time to provide context and is only slowly waking up and starting to publish fact checks for all their bullshit demand and statements.

So you might think you found a problem with my statement. But there isn’t one. The former center-right conservatives are indeed the right populists I was talking about. Because that is exactly what they degerated to the moment they lost power.

For reference see for example: here, here or here

That’s your so-called “conservative opposition” right there…

“German government -as always- rejects solutions (or even honest discussions) in favour of bullshit symbolism pandering to right populists”

Fixed the headline…

“See! You voted for the left, but they don’t solve your problems because we won’t let them!”

One of the most popular strategies in Europe… Followed by total confusion when neither that ‘ineffective’ left nor the obstructionist center to center right gets votes anymore and the far-right rises.

Many Europeans know first hand that the streets are less safe than they used to be and which groups are causing it.

No. Many people* believe* that streets are less safe than they used to be, although actual facts and statistics show the opposite and it’s much safer now.

They also believe which groups are causing it, because both lies are told by the same right-wing propagandists (and amplified by media giving a shit about facts, context or anything else but attention and clicks). The actual groups causing more crime are also in the actual real statistics: far-right crime and xenophobic assaults are on the rise and massively impact total numbers.

But -just to provide some context as I often see those stupid arguments that electrification cannnot work when we need that much elelctricity- the “total energy use” includes production losses and transport of fossil fuels as well as comparably very low efficiency (in heating and combustion engines in particular). So despite having 80% of the energy use to replace with electricity it’s not a factor of 5 but more closer to ~2,5 (even less for countries with a lower amount of heavy, energy intensive industries).

There weren’t enough alt-right loonies to be relevant in the first place, so they took years and had to work hard to co-opt any insane fringe topic to get them all into one somewhat big movement.

So now it’s a total shitshow of fairy tales now that make most hardcore conspiracy nutjobs seem sane.

They are written but don’t replace something in the read-only OS. They are just overlayed, so once removed the original is still there. How they do it differs. There are actual overlay filesystems for the job, or some use btrfs where all subvolumes behave mostly like virtual partitions (and copies of a subvolume only take space for changes of the original).

Sorry if reality doesn’t fit yout narrative so you have to pretend I made it up…

Yeah, sure. The warnings directly from the EU and the international reporting for weeks in international media did totally not happen… stupid Germans again believing things they can see with their own eyes.

An immutable OS is fixed and mounted non-writable. Every update you get, every program you install is handled on top of it via containers or filesystem overlays so the underlying OS is untouched. Basically the same concept you know from smartphones or other devices with a “reset to factory settings” function. No matter how hard you screw up your system, you can always reset to the base OS, either by granulary deactivating things installed on top, or by a reset to the working base OS.

No, EU countries don’t turn a blind eye. They do what they always do: Point accusingly at Germany as an active distraction so they can freely continue their shit. Or have we already forgotten the weeks-long public outcry when they allowed China to buy a minority share in a singular terminal of one harbour, with non of these reports ever mentioning the reality in other EU countries?

Yes, time consuming. But it’s still working hardware, not a now useless, now unrepairable paper weight…

Which is the definiton of “bricked” although people nowadays start to use the term inflationary.