So that’s a difficult question to answer. I’ve actually used Linux dual boot off and on a bunch of times over the years, but I’ve always kept my main desktop on Windows because as I said it’s my gaming system. I’ve tried a bunch of distros and they all involve tradeoffs.

My personal favorite is any Arch based distro because it’s usually easy to get up to date versions of anything you need. The flip side of that though is that it can be more unstable and fixing things when they break is often a bit more technical. The install process can also be a bit intimidating for a newcomer (although it’s really not that hard). I’m currently using Garuda which is a gaming focused version of Arch.

On the more traditional side you’ve got a lot of options. Mint is a popular recommendation for newcomers. I think Pop!_OS is also a really good option despite the really unfortunate experience Linus (Sebastian not Torvalds) had when trying it out.

About the only things I’d recommend staying away from would be Gentoo (nobody has time for that), NixOS (cool in theory, a nightmare to actually daily drive), and pretty much anything Fedora based (I’ve had lots of problems with RPM based distros in the past and libraries and programs are often many versions behind).

I finally had enough about a year ago and decided to bite the bullet and just install Linux. I honestly expected to run into all kinds of problems, particularly since I primarily use my desktop for gaming, but I’ve been very surprised how few problems I’ve actually had. It’s certainly not been completely problem free, but I wouldn’t say I’ve encountered more problems with Linux than I have in Windows. Different problems for sure, but not more, and honestly about equally difficult to fix.

Let me get this straight. Trump thinks a presidential candidate paying someone else to endorse them is a campaign contribution? Illegal or otherwise that’s not how that works, that’s called advertising.

Most “gun enthusiasts” don’t give a single fuck about these. They’re pretty useless as they just waste ammo and make your aim worse. I have no idea who’s actually fighting for these, but it’s definitely not the majority of gun owners. You’re right, nobody needs these, and almost nobody actually owns them. This decision won’t really change that either. Ultimately this is largely a non-story just as much as it was when they were banned in the first place. There’s far more meaningful things people should be focusing on right now both in terms of gun violence and just in general.

Yes. The guy just dumped the magazine, you can do that with a normal trigger as well, it just takes a second or two longer. Lets say it takes you 7 seconds to empty a 10 round magazine with a normal trigger. A forced reset trigger lets you do it in 5 seconds. Meanwhile an actual machine gun can do that in half a second.

More violence possibly but it’s not going to meaningfully increase gun sales. This entire thing is so ridiculously overblown. The thing in question here, forced reset triggers, just let you pull the trigger slightly faster (like less than a seconds difference compared to a normal trigger) than you otherwise would. It really is the most inconsequential decision whether you’re for or against gun ownership. Almost nobody cares about this decision.

Nope although they do get a mention. Apparently in this case it’s forced reset triggers. Saying they allow a semi-auto gun to fire like a full-auto is a bit of a stretch though, even more so than for a bump stock.

If it was ruled unconstitutional you’d think it would automatically be considered repealed. I suppose this could come into play potentially with our nut job supreme court though. If they decided to overturn the 2003 decision and it wasn’t officially repealed it could come into effect again, so uh… good on Texas I guess?

That will be an incredibly short section of class then. Here I can help:

In 2020 Trump claimed there were discrepancies in the election after losing the election, but when forced to submit evidence under oath admitted he had no evidence of discrepancies. That concludes the section on 2020 election discrepancies.

I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me

Says the guy in charge of the department responsible for medical advice.

This is one of the incredibly rare instances where I agree with something RFK Jr. says, I agree nobody should be taking medical advice from him. Now if he could fucking resign and you know stop giving medical advice that would be great.

Exactly, he’s already a walking security disaster.

I mean there’s a good chance. Air traffic control in the US is hanging by a thread.

For once China didn’t do shit. Trump closed the US market all on his own and now that the entirely predictable outcome occurred (that he was warned about repeatedly before hand) he’s throwing a tantrum and blaming everyone else (as he does).

The religion is just an excuse, what they’re really looking for is a small and weak minority group that they can attack without getting too much pushback. At something like 1.5% of the population trans people are a small enough minority without too much existing case law defending them so they’re an easy target.

Ultimately Republicans have to have a minority to attack because it distracts the public from noticing how everything else the Republicans are doing is hurting everyone but a select few rich people. It’s political slight of hand, watch the rights violations over here so you don’t notice the embezzlement over there.

Yes but if they weren’t spending all their time oppressing minority groups they’d have to solve actual problems and that’s hard.

Why not both?

Make it even simpler abolish organized religion. You’re free to do whatever you want in the privacy of your home, but get rid of all the temples, churches, mosques, and synagogues. No tax exemptions for religious organizations either (and that one change would kill most Christian churches practically over night).

Maybe it’s time for the DNC to get their own version of Trump. Pick one of the “not here to win, just here for the optics” candidates and dog pile them into the general election. Remember Trump wasn’t actually a serious candidate during his primary, he was just there to gain leverage for his TV show contract negotiation. Would do a lot of good to show the DNC it’s the voters who get to decide not them.

If Democrats take a majority in both houses and win the presidency they can roll back everything Trump has changed. It won’t undo the damage to foreign relations and US soft power, but at least it will stop the hemorrhaging. There’s going to be a deep hole to climb out of, but with Republicans out of the picture we can stop digging deeper.

Exactly how long that takes will depend on how the next couple elections go. Certainly nothing is improving while the Cheeto is in office.