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Les nations tombent lorsqu’elles se séparent de leur peuple. Quand le gouvernement se transforme en une autorité sans projet, Et quand ça s'érode de l'intérieur... Ensuite, l'étranger intervient juste pour décider de la chute.
#France - Tout va très bien dans la dictature macronienne silencieuse, le peuple et les petits bourgeois dorment bien et ne voient absolument rien arriver... #jovanovic LE GIPN A DÉBARQUÉ CHEZ PIERRE JOVANOVIC ET À SA MAISON D’ÉDITION
Un événement scandaleux a secoué la France. L'écrivain et journaliste indépendant Pierre Jovanovic, auteur des ouvrages qui dérangent, a été pris pour cible ...
En tout cas il n'en dit rien sur FB (enfin j'ai regardé vite ce qu'il poste). Cela dit c'est pas le bon endroit non plus et il a peut-être ses raisons pour ne pas en causer...
Alors il parait que l'histoire de la descente chez Jovanovic (où il laisse la lumière allumée et le voisin d'en face (mais inconnu....) prend une photo à 3:33 du mat...) s'est en fait passé plus de 2 mois avant....qu'il la sorte....pour vendre son livre ?
Oui j'ai vu cette affaire... En même temps ses livres se vendent très bien en général, pourquoi faire ce binz. Mais son affaire n'est pas claire, c'est un peu embrouillé. Je pense qu'il y a des gens que le pouvoir aimerait voir écartées bien davantage que Jovanovic (tout intéressant qu'il soit).
Mes amis, c’est sidérant. Les politiques français donnent l’impression d’être totalement soumis : ils n’osent même plus parler librement, incapables de répondre à la moindre question directe sur certains sujets. Et ces mêmes politicards viennent nous faire la leçon sur le droit international, l’ONU, les valeurs universelles… mais seulement quand ça les arrange.
Dès qu’il s’agit de Mileikowsky (Netanyahou) ou des ministres israéliens, c’est le silence radio. Plus personne pour défendre les principes qu’ils brandissent à tout bout de champ.
Et après ça, ils osent traiter les autres de négationnistes ou de complotistes... Mais ce sont leurs propres contradictions, leur lâcheté, et leur deux poids deux mesures qui alimentent la défiance. Ils nourrissent eux-mêmes ce qu’ils prétendent combattre.
JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, captured this view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes during the spacecraft’s 69th flyby of the giant planet on Jan. 28, 2025. Jupiter’s belts and zones stand out in this enhanced color rendition, along with the turbulence along their edges caused by winds going in different directions. […]
JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes during the spacecraft's 69th flyby of
KFA UK Chairman Dr Dermot Hudson travelled to Liverpool where KFA UK had a stall at the Merseyside Marxist Bookfair organised by Red Bookfairs . The event took place at the popular working class venue of the Casa in Hope Street , Liverpool.
Ils ont déjà invité Nili Naouri, militante sioniste extrême, qui appelle ouvertement à l’anéantissement des Arabes et à la prise de leurs terres au nom du "Grand Israël que Dieu lui aurait donné", selon ses propres mots.
Elle a même eu droit à un gala sioniste en France, sous protection de l’État français.
Il suffit que certains versent une larme et prononcent la formule magique "antisémitisme" pour que la soumissions soit totale.
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Gaza, bien sûr, n'est pas Auschwitz...Mais un génocide est un génocide. Et Israël, avec ses innombrables relais en France, a depuis longtemps basculé dans le...
In this exploratory analysis of 2 highly controlled crossover studies in 30 participants without diabetes, the same meals led to highly variable glucose responses, as measured with continuous glucose monitors.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Russian Embassy in Pyongyang to Mark Russia’s Great V-Day #DPRKkfauk.com/respected-comrade-ki…
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) — Pyongyang is significantly commemorating the day of Russia’s victory. Choe Son Hui, minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, said as follows: Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic …
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House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts that Democrats warn will leave millions without care
House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” late Sunday: $880B in cuts largely to #Medicaid to help cover $4.5T in tax breaks.
The legislation is touching off the biggest fight over health care since #Republicans tried to repeal Obamacare in 2017 — which ended in failure.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the proposals would leave 8.6 million people without coverage.
More than a dozen Republicans have told #GOP leaders they will not support cuts to health care that constituents depend on. Trump himself has vowed no cuts to Medicaid.
There would be new “community engagement requirements” of 80 hours per month of work, education or service for able-bodied adults without dependents. People would also have to verify eligibility twice a year, rather than just once.
well, surely the parliamentarian won't allow for something such as this in a reconciliation bill. ... ... oh wait, this just in. parliamentarian only works during democract-controlled senates.
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Russian Embassy in Pyongyang to Mark Russia’s Great V-Day #DPRKkfauk.com/respected-comrade-ki…
Pyongyang, May 10 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, paid a congratulatory visit to the Russian embassy in Pyongyang on May 9 on the …
Very good summary of Wynn-Williams "Careless people" by @pluralistic
"Facebook bosses aren't just "careless" because they refuse to read a briefing note that's longer than a tweet. They're "careless" in the sense that they arrive at a juncture where they don't have to care who they harm, whom they enrage, who they ruin."
. of WPK, SAC of DPRK, Standing Committee of SPA of DPRK and Cabinet of DPRK Send Joint Congratulatory Message to Leadership of Russian Federation and All Russian People #DPRKkfauk.com/of-wpk-sac-of-dprk-s…
Pyongyang, May 10 (KCNA) — The Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPR…
“L’historien israélo-britannique Avi Shlaim avance des « preuves irréfutables » que les sionistes ont bombardé des sites juifs pour encourager la migration vers Israël au début des années 1950”. middleeasteye.net/fr/actu-et-enq…
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Il y a peu de temps, les Israéliens ont arrêté de force le cortège de Netanyahu dans les rues de Tel Aviv, l'insultant et le qualifiant de traître et de meurtrier.
Die Zahl der Firmenpleiten hat im April einen neuen Höchststand erreicht. Seit fast 20 Jahren gab es keinen Monat, in dem mehr Unternehmen Insolvenz anmelden mussten.
Wir erleben einen beispiellosen Anschlag auf die Demokratie in Deutschland: Erstmals in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik wird darauf hingearbeitet, mit der AfD die stärkste Oppositionspartei zu verbieten.
Donald Trump welcomes Hamas's move to release Edan Alexander, a US-Israeli captive, calling it a step toward ending the Gaza war, as "Israel" faces internal criticism.
The leaders of the United States, Turkey, and Russia will be able to navigate Ukraine into a peace settlement, renowned American economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs told RIA Novosti.
finally got both of these steering knuckles off of the acura so i can try to press out the bearing and replace that one broken wheel stud
i realized something, i think the vibrating boing boing noise might be a pulsing due to an ABS sensor malfuction. the axles and brakes and everything else feels fine
Bible: For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
The universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of three Dutch scientists on the so-called Hawking radiation. They calculate that the last stellar remnants take about 1078 years to perish.
The Hebrew newspaper “Calcalist” revealed that the ballistic missiles launched by the Yemeni Armed Forces have been able to penetrate the Israeli air defenses and hit their targets accurately, thanks to the advanced techniques they possess in maneuv
After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.
On reflection, I realise my post might have come across as disrespectful. What I should have said is that *Sir* Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height. My apologies for any offence caused.
" if these decrees are still so vital, why has no covered entity requested their removal, even after fifty or sixty years? The silence is not noble. It is mercenary.
At its best, the American legal system uses consent decrees to right institutional wrongs. At its worst, it converts those wrongs into open-ended annuities for politically connected lawyers. The time has come to distinguish between the two."
This week's Other People's Music has some awesome selections from two of Mastodon's many fine musicians! @lislegaard delivers an awe inspiring album of experimental electronic music in collaboration with a tap dancer, while @liquid_clear proves there's still plenty of life left in industrial, so long as you're willing to take it down to the metal and rebuild it in new ways!
On 8 March, activist Daniel Day breached parliamentary security to climb 25 meters up Big Ben, the iconic clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in London. ...
@freebliss I really appreciate you putting your time and expertise into creating Faircamp. In not much more than an afternoon I had a very nice site ready to go. Faircamp’s a great service for the community. 🙏🏻👏🏻
NASA will host a live Twitch event to highlight the ongoing Moon Mascot Challenge, which invites the public to design a zero gravity indicator for the agency’s Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon. Viewers will have the opportunity to provide real-time input to an artist who will create an example of a zero […]
The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin.
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
I was wondering when he'd end up thrashing his way into the "Caesar's free grain" program that might actually build him a longer-term popular support base for his dictatorship.
A heartbreaking story is currently unfolding that’s sure to have devastating ramifications for years to come. Just moments ago, without any warning, the worst person…
@violetmadder Oh yeah, to be clear... I have zero confidence in anything even vaguely approximating his ability to execute. The EO just passes the buck to his Secretaries anyway. He has no idea how to do any of this and this administration won't figure it out.
My primary OS is Windows (I use it for work) and I have Linux as my second OS. If I upgrade my linux distro to the paid version so I can have more features, will Windows be okay? Thanks I'm a newb
As others have said, there usually is no such thing, and if there is, your distro is probably practically a scam and you should find another.
What distro are you running?
Some legitimate distros may have extra support available for a cost, but that just means support, not extra features. Also, they sometimes have things like live patching, but that really is more an enterprise grade feature.
I'm using ZorinOS and I really like how simple it is and I want to support the project. If I upgrade to the Pro version then I get more desktop themes/options.
But I understand what you mean. I could just install for example Debian with KDE desktop and have more customizing options for free.
ALL of the listed features from zorin pro have free alternatives, unless you really want microsoft office, screen sharing, adobe premier, etc... just stick with the free version and find free viable alternatives. Libreoffice, kdenlive, etc. How did you land on zorin to begin with? Most new users are recommended to use fedora, ubuntu-gnome, and linux mint. To me, just looking at zorins website they do not share the most basic principles of the linux space (being free and open source). I highly recomend switching, if you could run
echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
This will output the name of your display manager like gnome, kde, etc. The version of zorin you are running is more than certainly using a popular one. Just find a distro that uses the same one. And your user experience will be almost exactly the same. Zorin might have some QOL features but definitely not anything you couldnt implement yourself.
Feel free to reach out here for more help if you run into any brick walls. You already dual booted your pc so i have faith that you have a pretty good grasp on what you are doing. If time is a factor and you just need a distro that "works" stick with what you have, and find FOSS alternatives for zorin. Best of luck
As far as I know Zorin is FOSS, for what it's worth. It's mostly just bundled FOSS software with some slick themes and accessibility features, plus a few in-house system apps which they do seem to provide sources for.
They mention that it's open source on their website but they don't mention FOSS probably because the libre/gratis distinction is confusing for people.
Zorin itself is foss but paying for features like themeing and software Is imo against the spirit of linux, they should, (again imo) release zorin pro as the default and simply accept donations. Like most distro maintainers. Even more frustrating, is the advertised features are just normal features and software readily available for free on other distros being paywalled. Its very likely that a user could get all of the listed features on the free version without paying. I also misread the website, ms office and adobe premier are not even what is included. In fact they do not list the specific names of the alternatives that they use in the pro version. I would bet that the pro version Has all foss software that is being hidden behind the price tag. I will do more quick research and edit this comment if that is the case.
Edit: Yeah i nailed it, its all foss software available through most package managers or flatpak heres a list.
Additional Software Included in Zorin Pro: Office & Productivity:
LibreOffice: A comprehensive office suite compatible with Microsoft Office/365 documents: https://www.libreoffic...
I installed the paid version of Zorin on my Parents machines, because while I could set it up for them just the same and then maintain it until they die, I'd rather pay 50$ and have nearly 0 work to do.
I make way over 50$ for 1 hour or Linux tech support, so there is no world where it would be worth.
But besides that I don't think your attitude is particularely useful for people that would rather shit just work than spend hours on setting it up themselves.
It's kind of creepy, weird, and unusual. However, I can see someone building a distro and creating a bunch of non-OSS themes and basically selling the themes. That's not beyond the pale, although it is (again) questionably moral given that they probably created all of those themes using free software that they didn't pay for. But whatever.. just keep that in mind.
The usual way of commoditizing Linux is to sell service - so you get, like, 4 tickets a month or something where someone is guaranteed to be there to try to fix whatever problem you have within a reasonable amount of time, and you don't have to either rely on the kindness of strangers.
Zorin is mainstream enough that I suspect if they were really violating the GPL, someone would be on their case already. You can't - usually, depending on the license - just repackage OSS and sell it. So if that's how you wanted to spend your money, you do you and don't worry about the comments on this thread.
Oh, about your question: according to the upgrade page, the "upgrade" is just access to more packages, probably in another repos. You won't have to re-install the distribution, and there won't be any impact on your dual boot. You're just getting more packages to install.
You can't - usually, depending on the license - just repackage OSS and sell it.
I'm pretty sure you can. GNU's Selling Free Software is for the GPL & doesn't specifically address selling someone else's OSS. But you should (I think?) be able to, so long as you don't violate the license. There are multiple views to selling foss, but I don't think that many will object, if you for example sell Linux DVDs at a low cost. (Not common any more, but this has been done before, I've heard)
I don't know much about Zorin, but selling foss is not inherently evil & illegal.
The whole thing about selling DVDs was that you were selling the DVD, not the distribution on it. You were "charging a reasonable price for the service of burning the DVD, for the media, and for distribution." Much of that went away with the internet, when people could download and burn ISOs themselves. It used to be quite common; not just distributions, but CDs full of OSS software. Again, the assumption and expectation was that you weren't selling the software, but the media. There was no such thing as a "Pro" version of Linux. There were commercial distributions, and there was a period when companies were trying to figure out ways to commoditize OSS, but there were also lawsuits, and it mostly settled out to be service agreements, which were in the end more lucrative anyway.
I disagree about the immorality of selling FOSS. Even in the very rare case that you built the entire program, from scratch, using no FOSS libraries, you probably still used gcc, or the Python interpreter, or go or rustc. And on most cases, you are using libraries that other people created and gave away for free. And instead of giving back to the community, so that the people who's software you're implicitly selling that your software is built and depends on, can't use it similarly for free. And odds are also good that, despite your shim is utterly reliant on their hard work, you're not splitting up the profit and sharing it with them. How much money do those people send to Linus Torvalds? Or the countless kernel contributors? To the people who've worked on libc?
I have absolutely no issue with people who request donations for the software that they built and regularly and consistently maintain. And people charging for OSX or Windows software? It costs more than just free time to develop and release on those platforms - the entire chain is commercial. But when your product is an unmeasurably tiny fraction of all of the gratis effort that went into the end product, well. It doesn't seem right to profit on other's work, does it?
Look, we're a capitalist society. It takes someone time and material to make a chair from scratch, and when you take it, they don't have it any more. They used nothing free except maybe YouTube videos, or their parent's training. The FOSS software ecosystem is the closest thing we have to a functioning communism in the world; it works because, while it may take my time to create something, it doesn't cost me more than my time, and once it's done it can be endlessly replicated and used by innumerable people at no significant cost to me. When actors take advantage of the free ecosystem and don't contribute back in like fashion, in my book that's unethical.
Stallman's usual take is "Yeah sure you can sell it, as long as you respect the 4 freedoms.". So I don't think selling Free Software is against the spirit of FOSS. The issue is rather that the Free Software is against the spirit of selling because realistically you can sell it to one entity which can then just make 7 billion copies of said software. At that point it's no longer financially viable to sell it for you.
I also think that the majority of people creating Free Software would be fine with someone else selling it. Remember how much permissive-licensed software is out there. If authors really cared, they would have licensed the software under GPL, but instead they even allow it to be used with commercial licensing. Obviously I'm not taking away your opinion, but I don't think your opinion represents the majority of FOSS.
Personally, I dislike Zorin, but I can see your point. I didn't know it was Zorin at the time I I just find paywalling some FOSS stuff that isn't entirely yours very weird, and I also don't think users should touch almost anything Ubuntu-based, especially new ones. Mint might be the exception, but it's not to my tastes as well personally.
I think I agree with my university's Linux Users Group recommendation of Fedora, though I personally use Debian.
Honestly, if Debian would tidy up their website, make the Calamares-based installers the default, and perhaps had an installer with backports kernel built-in, it could be the easiest distro out there - I think everything else in Debian is almost perfect for most people. They don't even have to compromise on all that "universal operating system" stuff - they could just offer multiple installers. As for the website, I can get why they need to use a static site with HTML4, but that shouldn't stop them from designing a simple-to-use website.
Also, had no idea you were also in this community. Pleasant surprise.
They're not really paywalling FOSS, though. You can absolutely install it all and configure it yourself. You're paying for them to do the work so you don't have to.
I think it's pretty benign to charge for that to support development.
Ignoring Red Hat which according to the Software Freedom Conservancy organization are GPL violators.
But with Ubuntu it depends on whether you consider paid repositories features or support. Sure you can just compile it yourself but that's kinda the same thing Zorin is doing: lemmy.world/post/29546682/1701…
If you want to support a *nix distro, that's awesome and I fully support you. What you shouldn't support is distributions locking features behind a paywall.
This is how you get Microsoft Windows and Copilot.
To answer your question--Windows is destructive to *nix boot sectors. When you update Windows, it will bork your *nix install. Dual booting with Windows is a real PITA.
it sounds like a great deal
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