I looked for a reasonable Linux laptop for my wife and either it was European (large shipping costs) or ridiculously marked up.

She just went with a windows laptop 🤷‍♀️

I like Debian + flatpaks. 🤷‍♀️

I like the philosophy behind Debian. It’s not a corpo distro

The entire premise of this post is that people are supposedly bricking their systems, and atomic distros fix this.

My argument is that nobody is bricking their system. I will repeat it, because that’s the assumption made by op to argue in favor of atomic distros.

You are free to disagree, but at this point you are just arguing to argue.

I’m quoting the OP. His argument is that atomic distros are the future because people are out there bricking their systems.

updates that either work 100% or roll back automatically, no more “oops I bricked my system” moments

I love flatpak lol. something like debian + flatpak is win-win imo

I’m curious what you’re doing to your system that bricks it so often that would be considered a risk for a normal every-day normie user?

oops I bricked my system

I honestly can’t think of a single time I’ve done this in the 20 years I’ve been using linux.

what’s keeping YOU from switching to an atomic distro

I dunno, it just seems like the latest fad. Debian/Arch work just fine.

Yes?

The USA has one party: the capitalist party. They do not represent you, they represent corporate interests. Your vote doesn’t even really matter because of the electoral college, and other racist relics such as the Senate, giving ridiculous power to to just a handful of “swing voters”.

Voting once every 4 years for either the capitalist war monger or the other capitalist war monger, while they both ban 3rd party candidates from the ballot, does not make the USA “democratic”.

Edit: also who cares if it’s one party? In each of these cases the party has brought the entire population out of abject poverty (usually the result of capitalism exploiting them), increased education surpassing the USA, brought healthcare to all, have higher home ownership rates than the USA, etc.

Objective quality of life measurements all surpass the USA.

https://youtu.be/FEHYeeRCtVI

No, it gets destroyed by a CIA-funded coup every time. (Read Jakarta Method)

But look at Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Kerala, China, Burkino Faso for modern attempts at Socialism/Communism

Where do you fit in? Do you own capital? Are you a business owner or a factory owner? If not then you are a tool for capitalists to exploit as they wish

Taxing them will not fix the system that produces them.

Usually, my attempts to use it are either thwarted by issues installing, issues booting, or general problems while using it… leading to “catastrophic failure” that I can’t fix without digging into hours of research and terminal commands.

This was my experience as well … 20 years ago. I’ve not had many of these issues over the past few years using any distro. I used Debian for a couple years and now I’m on Arch. Really, it just works for me…

TBH now that I think about it, I ran in to more issues with Ubuntu than just simply using Debian.

glad you enjoyed your stay!

Oh look, another liberal blaming eveybody and anybody except the traish-tier Democrat platform/candidate.

Linux mint de

You’re going to distro hop (we all do) so just start somewhere. It’s debian based, so what you learn will be applicable to like 80% of the distros out there.

I like gnome. Plasma is nice too. Lately I’ve just been using minimal i3 window manager.

Good luck!

Why would they?

Linux Mint DE will be the easiest transition.

They’re all basically the same dude. They’re all GNU/Linux. You have 2 main distros: Debian and Arch. Fedora is a kind of inbetween, there’s SUSE as well, but mostly it’s all Debian and Arch.

Mint, Ubuntu, etc … it’s all just Debian. Use Debian.You can use KDE plasma or Gnome or i3 or whatever you want.

Stable yea. My PC is a bit older (7 years) and I’ve never had any issues with hardware, even with my nvidia card.