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Russia’s Primorye Territory will increase the imports of Belarusian machinery next year, Primorye Territory Governor Oleg Kozhemyako said during a meeting with Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Shuleiko.
#Palestine / 12 countries condemn forced displacement of Palestinian village in occupied West Bank
Diplomatic missions from #UK, #Germany, #France and 9 other nations issued joint statement expressing solidarity with residents of Mughayir a-Deir who were forced to abandon homes due to settler violence and Israeli authorities' failure to provide protection.
As has been common practice for years, Israeli settlers established an outpost meters from a Palestinian village. The community was forced to flee after escalating violence and threats. Seven neighboring communities have already been displaced following the same pattern. Tens of thousands in Area C face "high or imminent risk" of forcible transfer.
These countries demand Israel dismantle the outpost and allow safe return. They call this a violation of international law and demand Israel respect the prohibition on forcible transfer.
**JOINT PRESS STATEMENT** **WEST BANK, JUNE 2025**
**DIPLOMATIC STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN MUGHAYIR A-DEIR**
The undersigned diplomatic missions express their strong solidarity with the Palestinian community of Mughayir a-Deir. The community's long-standing residents were recently forced to abandon their homes and belongings due to escalating settler violence and a prevailing climate of impunity.
Israeli settlers have established an outpost just metres from the community, which is a clear violation of international law. Mughayir a-Deir was one of the last remaining Palestinian communities in the area. Seven neighbouring communities have already been displaced amid a broader and deeply troubling pattern of violent settler attacks and a lack of protection by the Israeli authorities.
We therefore urge the Israeli authorities to dismantle the outpost immediately and to take urgent and effective measures to enable the safe return of the displaced residents. It is imperative that the community is protected from further violence and intimidation.
Mughayir a-Deir is not an isolated case—it reflects a broader pattern of displacement in Area C of the West Bank, where a coercive environment marked by repeated settler violence, movement restrictions, land confiscation, demolitions and inadequate access to essential services is making life unbearable and pushing communities to leave. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Area C face a high or imminent risk of forcible transfer. This alarming trend gravely undermines prospects for a just and lasting peace.
We call on Israel to respect its obligations under international law, including the prohibition of forcible transfer. We also reaffirm our clear and consistent opposition to settlements, which are illegal under international law. We emphasise Israel's responsibility to protect all Palestinian communities in Area C.
*The Consulates General of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the Representative Offices of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, as well as the Office of the European Union Representative to the West Bank and Gaza*
@WesternDemocracies You should all face up to the fact, that your total moral abdication from the atrocities preformed by the Israeli fascists IS A SCANDAL AND AN EPIC MISTAKE, and take affirmative action that forces Israel to stop the war and the Gaza genocide, and will compel them to abide by international law and UN resolutions, but instead you all just talk cheap, and continues to profit from the war by selling armaments to the Israeli fascists...It seems that the leaders and their sycophant governments in these western socalled democracies all have a beginning twitc in their right arms! #StopTheGenocide #StopIsraeliFascism #StopTheWar #NoToFascism #FreePalestine
This profile shows how Laila Soueif's life crisscrosses with so many important events in Egypt's contemporary history. If you are interested in knowing more about student movements and the struggles against multiple dictatorships in #Egypt, this article crystallises how the life of this frail woman lying in a hospital bed in London is so important.
Laila Soueif, on 247th day of hunger strike for jailed British-Egyptian son, defiant in face of death theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
On June 4, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense hosted the 23rd Expert Working Group (EWG) Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defense Ministers' Meeting in Qingdao City, east China's Shandong Province.
Passionate about video reporting and investigation, Yanis Mhamdi is a journalist-director at Blast, a French independent media outlet. He was in the West Bank where he shot his next film, “Alice in Settlerland.
oh man new AC compressors are like $5-700. i found a video on how to remove it though so i am feeling a bit more enthusiastic today about finishing this up
Askip la #freedomflotilla se fait survoler par des drônes et il faudrait donc faire particulièrement de bruit pour protéger ses occupants. Pour les français il y a un appel à envoyer un mail à "alerte.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr" Je sais pas quel est le ocntact équivalent pour la belgique #palestine
SANAA, June 03 (YPA) - Yemeni student, Gubran Khalil Al-Maljami, drowned off the coast of India yesterday, Monday, in a tragic accident that occurred just two days after celebrating his graduation from an Indian university.Sources close to the deceas
If the federal government printed money to fund healthcare instead of manufacturing missiles I wouldn't be so mad about government spending or the national debt
@HiroProtagonist there's so much corruption and incompetence in government, more government spending = more centralization, corruption, bureaucracy, and regulations- covid clearly demonstrated this inverse relationship between spending and quality of care. look at all the tax money they spent on covid vaccines and murdering people in hospitals. similarly, more military spending doesn't necessarily provide better security. the more money they have the more they feel a need to waste it
i would rather have government spend zero on health care tbh. charity should be voluntary.
@realcaseyrollins ✝️ If they didn't spend your money on missiles you could spend it on healthcare or whatever else you needed yourself. Anytime you give money to government in exchange for services rather than purchasing the services yourself you give up control, freedom, privacy, and usually efficiency.
Carbon capture won't work. Alberta leaders will still blame Ottawa for everything. Oil companies will still reap huge profits while Albertans get very little. Meanwhile, some provinces are literally on fire.
The Shock Doctrine is Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein's companion piece to her popular 2007 book of the same name. In short, the shock doctri...
Personally I think that azerty was meant made by drunk students trying to troll people but it somehow caught on.
Hey, qwerty is kinda bad... You think we could try to make one that's even worse to mock it?
Oooh that'd be hilarious! Let's make a French version of qwerty but a lot worse!
I know, lets put dead keys for all accents except for the accent aigu so that when you need it on an uppercase letter you CAN'T type it!
Ahah good one! Let's also not add anyway to type an uppercase cedilla! Imagine, a French keyboard that can't type uppercase é and ç !
And what if we rearrange all the punctuation and symbols so that the open and closed parenthesis are no longer next to each other? It'd be sooo funny!
Right right! Let's do it too for the brackets and curly braces too!
Good one! How about we don't add guillemets which are used in French instead of english double quotes, so that people will be forced to type double quotes and their advanced text editors will have to automatically replace them by guillemets so that the text uses correct punctuation for French?
That's so sneaky! Let's also add § so you can cite your sources with the correct paragraph symbol, but not use real quotations marks for the quotes!
What else would be really stupid?
Let's use one key for a random greek letter!
What?
You know, like α and β?
Ermm... okay... which one? α or β?
Neither, people might actually use those once every 2 years. Let's just pick one at random!
µ it is! Has anyone even seen that letter used in a French text?
Nope, never, so it's perfect!
How about also adding ¤?
What the hell is ¤?
I haven't the faintest clue! And neither do you or most people! That why it's funny!
Sure, why not, let's cram pointless characters and not add actually useful ones like guillemets! Any other ideas?
Let's put the hyphen on the one most unreachable key!
Oh that's a good one!
I got better! Let's put the period on the same key as the semicolon, but with the semicolon as the default character, and periods will be Shift+semicolon! That way we can say that it's canonically why French phases are long-winded: it's easier to type a comma or semicolon than a period!
Man you're hilarious!
When I was still on Windows I put qwerty as my keyboard layout and used the Alt+number shortcuts for accents because that was less painful than using azerty... Those shortcuts didn't work anymore when I switched to linux so I had to find a real solution, which ended up being a colemak base which I modified to add accented letters. I don't like bepo, it moves z x c v and I like them being in the same place as in qwerty for the shortcuts I'm used to, and I didn't know qwerty-fr existed at the time 😅
So there's an ACTUALLY usable keyboard for French but no one in France even knows it exists because it's not metropolitan French? Why am I not surprised 😑
You even have division and multiplication symbols and FRACTIONS and every symbol that you might ever need? 😭 😭 😭
And it seems like it would work well for English, French and German?
I know that last one as the "sun" character (circle with rays coming out) but really I once learned it's a placeholder character for "your local currency sign".
AZERTY is awful and anyone who uses it is a psychopath or even worse, french (québécois are fine though).
But jokes aside, I regularly switch between typing in French, English, and Spanish (so basically using all the accents and special characters including ñ) and even with all of it's faults, QWERTY with international layout works perfectly for me: * all accents are independent so you can capitalize upper and lower case and any kind of letter * cedilla is basically just a c with an accent and that's exactly how you type it (in Linux you might have to use a special key unless you actually mean "ć"), same for ñ * English apostrophe doubles as the accent key, if you want an apostrophe just press space after hitting the apostrophe key
I worked in France for a while and I deeply agree with everything you said... Except μ is by far the most useful Greek letter since it is used as a prefix for units of measurement, e.g. μm, μL, etc.
Also the Swiss layout is even worse, it combined all the bad features of the French and German keyboards and then just moves around all the symbols a bit more for good measure.
If you don't like BÉPO because you want familiar letter-based clipboard shortcuts, you've already made a better layout selection impossible. I learned to use the older clipboard shortcuts: ctrl+ins for copy, shift+ins for paste, and shift+del for cut. Those are still as universally supported.
Those are not nearly as conveniently located for left handed use though. Having z x c and v all easily reachable with my left pinky on control and my right hand on my mouse tops any other benefit of another keyboard layout.
I use them fine with my left hand. There's no reason to stay on home row if you're doing a lot of copy and paste. Of course, if you're doing that much copy and paste, using an extension that allows VIM shortcuts would be much faster.
As someone with a Thinkpad, that weird thing Lenovo does where they switch the control and function keys gets me every time I switch between Thinkpad and non-Thinkpad laptops.
I get that the function key isn't technically a standard key on the keyboard (I've only seen them on laptops) and Thinkpads always had that layout, but it's still annoying.
There are several Azerty layouts. Some don’t allow you to type uppercase accented letters easily, some do. I’ve switched to Linux about fifteen years ago and never had an issue typing these characters with the default layout. It used to be more complicated on Windows, I don’t know if that’s still the case. I should give it a try the next time I get the occasion to type on a Windows computer.
I currently use the fr-oss Azerty layout, which is probably not perfect but has many advantages. I love being able to type thin spaces and non breaking spaces easily.
I still don’t get why it’s easier to type a semi-colon than a full stop, though. I love semi-colons, but even I don’t use them that much.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation is using the new mechanism it has established for distributing aid in the besieged Palestinian enclave as a “trap for mass killing in the Strip and a tool for the forced dis
Following a series of successful virtual meetings exceeding two thousand registrations, BRICS youth is preparing for next week's Summit, where elected guest observers from the seminars will take place
Welcome to a new privacy-first initiative challenging the digital identity status quo, urging a sharp turn away from the surveillance-ready infrastructure embedded in mobile driver’s licenses.
The campaign, called No Phone Home, brings together a broad alliance of civil liberties groups, privacy experts, technologists, lawmakers, and public officials who are resisting the ways digital IDs compromise people’s rights.
What’s fueling the campaign is concern over how mobile driver’s licenses, increasingly adopted in the US and abroad, are built atop a technical framework that allows them to silently transmit data back to issuing authorities. While this function may not be active by default, it exists; and that, privacy advocates argue, is a serious vulnerability.
Even if unused, if the architecture allows for data to be sent back to government servers, it eventually will be the campaign’s statement warns.
The ship symbolizes the spirit of Palestinian resilience and the growing global resistance to Israel's collective punishment and starvation policies, says Ann Wright.
There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.
Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.
I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.
It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.
However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.
There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.
Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.
I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.
It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.
However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.
The one issue I have is the mind set. It seems to be from the point of view that Linux should be just like Windows and use the same software and hardware. If that is what you want run Windows.
On the otherhand if you want to use FOSS apps, use Linux and just dump Windows. My family has used Linux for over 20 years and yes it is fine. But you actually have to want that. And no, I do not use Windows, MS Apps, or Google Chrome at all these days and do not use dual boot.
Also, dual boot gets old pretty fast. Probably best to choose a primary OS and run the other in a VM. Yes, something like 27 years ago I started with dual boot but have not setup that for at least 20 years probably longer.
One thing I always find amusing about these kinds of write-ups is how much the writer is desperately trying to replicate the Windows experience. It's most exemplified in the section "Mission Center is the task manager you really need". Half the issues mentioned in this section are effectively aesthetical, from what I can tell. Mission Center looks a hell of a lot like Task Manager. I almost skimmed past the screenshot without realizing it was not a screenshot of Task Manager.
This theme comes back again with the section on KDE: "So far, I like this KDE desktop better because it feels more like Windows 11 or Windows 10. There's a Start menu and a taskbar at the bottom of the screen. The Start menu pops up as a small box, rather than taking over the whole screen like the Gnome menu did."
I don't own a Streamdeck, and I hear they're really useful, but reading this section about Boatswain I really wonder what's going on in the brains of the average computer "enthusiast" because if you're only using the Streamdeck as a push button interface to launch Gmail of all things... I really want to question what exactly about computers you're really enthusiastic about. It also really exposes how little the writer seems to understand about "advanced" computer usage.
There's no option to launch websites,
Yes, that makes sense. Since you can perform almost any task via the terminal, there seems little reason to have a "launch websites" function because...
but the workaround is to just but the command to launch your browser (in my case, google-chrome) in front of whatever URL you wish to launch.
You can just call your browser of choice using its command parameters. This isn't a "work around", this is base functionality of the software. I wonder if they understand that they could do this on Windows as well.
I wish this process were a little more seamless and you could get a menu of preinstalled apps to choose from or a dialog box that let you put in the website you want. But this is a process that works and, for that, I am thankful. Kudos to the makers of StreamController and shame on Elgato for not having a native Linux version of the Stream Deck app.
If you want to use Linux, then you should learn how to use Linux. Heck, it'll even make you better at using other operating systems like Windows and MacOS, because what StreamController is forcing you to do here is learn how to execute applications via the command line.
I'm trying to find a good, free PDF editor where I can enter text on a medical form I have to fill out. I've tried five different editors and all seem to have issues that make it difficult or impossible to put text on top of the form. Very lame. Any suggestions?
Pretty sure both Chrome and Firefox can do this in the browser window. Maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway. The closing sections are interesting.
For example, StreamController allowed me to configure my Stream Deck Neo, but it's not nearly as easy-to-use or powerful as Elgato's own Stream Deck software.
What is the measure of "Powerful" here, exactly? StreamController features a plugin system where you can build your own actions using python and their code library, which the Stream Deck software also has. If you can launch an application like chrome and feed it parameters to open a specific website, then you can probably tell StreamController to launch a bash script that does a whole list of tasks for you and more. I guess you'd have to learn bash, though.
Community versions of software are a mixed blessing: There are community versions -- apps made by independent developers -- that fill the gap where first-party software lacks Linux versions. However, these are often made by volunteers who have other things to do and don't have the kind of insight that would come from being part of the original hardware or software team. For example, AutoHotKey, a major macro app for Windows, is not available for Linux at all. There's a community version called AHK_X11 but it still hasn't been updated to work with the latest versions of Ubuntu, the most popular Linux flavor, because it's incompatible with the Wayland window manager that Ubuntu uses.
I have to highlight this whole section because it is mind-boggling. "There are community versions -- apps made by independent developers [...] these are often made by volunteers [...] and don't have the kind of insight that would come from being part of the original hardware or software team. For example, AutoHotKey" AutoHotKey is FOSS! It's maintained for free by a non-profit foundation. You can volunteer your time and submit a pull request on their GitHub page. This isn't exactly the "first-party software" you're talking about, and it also shows you've fully missed the point of what the Linux ecosystem is doing, and its foundational ethos.
This also makes me laugh a little because I wonder what exactly they were using AutoHotKey for? The most we get is: "I write AHK macros that select menu items you can't get to with a hotkey in Google Docs or in Photoshop Elements or elsewhere". If you desire a fully keyboard-driven experience, if that's what sits at the heart of this AHK thing, let me introduce you to a little program called GNU Emacs.
Too many ways to install software
Again, fully missing the point here. If you desire a monopolized, centralized, authoritative experience where you are locked into the precise workflow as prescribed to you by private interests, then go back to Windows or MacOS. It is a fair critique once you're well acquainted with the ecosystem, but it's something that is only resolved through centralization and mass adoption of a single distribution method, and that is never going to happen.
Changing Desktop managers is too much work
I would say that's a step up from having zero ability to change desktop managers but, who am I to say exactly?
Code editing: There are a lot of code editors. I still haven't found one I like as much as Notepad++ which I use in Windows. Notepad++ will run using Wine emulation but on my home desktop, which uses scaling, the font is too small to read.
This shocks me a little. Even in the world of VSCode, people are still loyal to Notepad++? I mean, the options are infinite really, Notepad++ really hasn't evolved in a long time. What exactly could Notepad++ be doing that can't be replicated even with VSCode? I know that Notepad++ is at least less of a resource hog then something like VSCode but is that really a concern given the systems they're using? VSCode isn't even a great option, it's just the most popular option with the most broad appeal and support. Again, you could be investigating things like Vi or Emacs.
Logi+
I have an MX Master mouse as well. I fucking hate the Logi+ bullshit, and it's insane that you are allowed to create a mouse like the MX Master and lock all its functionality behind software that wants to run all the time in the background, and phone home to Logitech with "telemetry data" for "enhancing user experience". I shouldn't have to have privacy concerns regarding the mouse I use on my computer. I'm glad Logi+ doesn't exist on Linux. When you set up the device on Windows it tries to automatically install the Logi+ software, it should be considered a virus at this point. I had to wipe my work computer recently, and uninstalled Logi+ after Windows was up and running again, and actually just used AutoHotKey to remap the side button on the mouse. Out of the box, all the button does is emulate a WIN+TAB keyboard command, which I intercept and change to Win+CTRL+S which launches screen capture.
Phone Link:
God only knows what Windows is doing with all the information it is nabbing off your device while connected to their operating system. "These work, but their UI looks very primitive in comparison to what you get from Microsoft." Again, aesthetics.
I really like Linux and, if it had just a little bit better support for the hardware and software I rely on, I could see myself switching to it for 90 or 100% of my daily usage. As of now, though, I'll still be using Windows, at least some of the time.
It's funny that they walk away with a positive experience, yet the real takeaway is that "it's not enough like windows". Learn Linux. Learn it for real, and you'll never need whatever you're missing from Windows. Decolonize your brain from decades of Windows lock in. You'll be better for it.
What is it with these people that when thinking of Linux base their decisions on decade-old knowledge and go straight for Ubuntu. Ubuntu isn't what it used to be, competition actually happened and we're all the better for it. In the meantime, Canonical F'd up, and Ubuntu should not be anywhere near the top of the recommended distros list.
Want something that actually works, go Linux Mint. Have much newer hardware and want to game, go with Fedora or an arch-based distro like EndeavourOS.
I got disappointed in Ubuntu. You had to use 'Ubuntu Pro' to get the latest updates.. Bullshit :c Linux should not have a paywall in regards to security! I will test out Arch and see how it goes. Especially now when windows 10 loses support in October 16th
IIRC that's not accurate. You only need that "pro feature" if you want to be able to apply kernel updates without rebooting. Unless you have that requirement and an armada of devices matching that profile you don't need to pay anything.
I started with Linux mint for my personal home computers that I use for browsing and some gaming. No need to tinker around with drivers or configuration etc. Ubuntu is a little raw for new comer.
Another vote for Linux Mint. Many Linux distros are available on bootable USBs, so you can try out Linux without messing with your Windows installation at all.
Koło cyfryzacji partii @razem szykuje plan działania na najbliższe miesiące. Jakie tematy z zakresu cyfryzacji są dla Was najważniejsze? Czas działać! 💪
@dwaem Ale to trzeba robić z głową, a nie wersjonować PDFy xDDD Git może i by się jeszcze nadał, ale GitHub i podobne byłyby do tego absolutnie bezużyteczne.
Podstawowa wartość takiego VCSa wynikałaby z wykorzystywania go przez parlament. Dzisiaj aby jako obywatel ogarnąć, nad czym właściwie toczy się głosowanie, musisz włożyć olbrzymi wysiłek w rozwiązywanie referencji w projektach i poprawkach - albo zapłacić za komercyjne opracowanie. To sztuczna bariera informacyjna.
To był kampanijny damage control Mentzena po słynnym wygasłym hostingu. Sam pomysł nie był niczym nowym w środowisku okołokorwinowym, patrz bitbucket.org/knp-sekcja-prawa… @KrzysiekJ
@dwaem To tak żeby uściślić - marzyłby mi się publiczny system pozwalający wygenerować tekst ujednolicony (nienormatywny) na każdym etapie procesu legislacyjnego, włącznie z propozycjami poprawek w Sejmie i Senacie, a także wyświetlający czytelnie różnice między takimi tekstami i rozwiązujący referencje.
Większa tego część jest już dostępna na rynku komercyjnie - a powinna być publiczna, zintegrowana z systemami informacyjnymi Sejmu, Senatu i RPLem.
Zresztą, w tym kontekście to żadna różnica, czy PDF czy Markdown. Mógłby być nawet Dropbox czy Google Docs - to co jest tutaj ma się nijak do procesu legislacyjnego.
Oczywiście, że ma się nijak do naszego procesu legislacyjnego, ale w teorii można byłoby na bazie zwykłego repo w git stworzyć taki system. Wtedy marszałek by mówił "głosujemy teraz nad PR #123" - "X głosów za, Y przeciw, PR zmergeowany" 😁
@hlukasz @dwaem No i to jest właśnie chłopskorozumowa droga donikąd, bo teksty prawne funkcjonują na zasadach które nie mapują się zbyt dobrze na gitowy koncept merge'a.
Pewnie jakby się uprzeć to dałoby się zbudować sensowny system z gitem pod spodem, ale raczej wątpię by była to najlepsza opcja. Natomiast GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg etc. i koncepty takie jak PR/MR będą tu kompletnie bezużyteczne.
Ce que beaucoup de gens oublient, c'est que la façon dont une personne connaît le passé influence sa compréhension du présent et sa perception de l'avenir. Si une personne connaît le passé de manière déformée, sa perception du présent et de l'avenir sera faussée.
L’artiste qui avait chanté, avec Pierre Barouh, le célèbre thème du film de Claude Lelouch, était une passionnée de jazz et de comédies musicales. Elle est morte le 4 juin, à l’âge de 88 ans.
Larry Haiven Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir at the one-year celebrations of the settlement of Ramat Arbe, an illegal settlement in the Lower Galilee, West Bank. Photo courtes…
Whelp, here I am. Been an Arch user for over 10 years now, and to this date I love it. But something is bothering me lately. Almost two years ago I jumped ship and completely switched to Wayland (using Plasma first, then Sway). I tasted modernism with all its features and it was sweet. But those last two years were a timeframe where I had to troubleshoot quite a lot compared to before where I used XFCE which was a very stable and reliant experience.
I am at a stage in my life where I do not have the time, nor the energy anymore to troubleshoot problems on a regular basis. I am now almost afraid of installing updates, because something new could fail again. But I cannot go back anymore. Wayland is too sweet.
So although I still love Arch, maybe it is time for me to look for something else which gives me more ease-of-mind. I am specifically looking at immutable distros now since the concept seems to be exactly what I am looking for (stable, low maintenance, up-to-date packages, easy rollback). But I am a bit lost with the options and hope that you can help me with some recommendations.
I mainly browse the web, watch movies, game, do some scripting and run qemu VMs
I am comfortable with the terminal
I don't do fancy customizations
I don't like GNOME Distributions that I find interesting so far:
Aurora
Bazzite
NixOS
I am still trying to wrap my head around what the differences between NixOS and the other two are. Afaik, with Nix you can configure your system once (including what packages you want to use), save this configuration in a file, and load it up whenever I need to set it up again. And it seems to have the same concept of updates, such that you can easily roll back if needed. But it seems to be aimed more at professional users and that I might overshoot at what I was aiming for. So for someone who likes to setup a system once and then just wants to use it indefinitely without too much maintenance what would your recommendation/advice/critisism regarding my situation be?
Edit: thank you guys so much for all your recommendations and thoughts! After some further analysis I decided to install Bazzite for the following reasons:
shares a lot of similarities with other Atomic distros
but has all the nice gaming related things pre-installed and configured and it uses a properly pre-installed Steam (not the Flatpak version) (the main reason why I chose it over Aurora, which would have been my next best pick)
my qemu virtual machines run perfectly fine (also the shared folder)
some dev stuff already pre-installed (don't think I need more than there already is)
fast and the OS feels like made out of one block, very consistent
I was ready to use my machine like I want to in basically no time
I already love the atomic way of handling updates
so far no issues
The only thing left for me to do is to figure out how to properly install SyncThing and Zerotier-One, then I am absolutely set.
I noticed that you are interested in immutable distros! That's a good choice for your requirements, since it allows you to skip troubleshooting most issues by rebooting or performing a rollback.
I myself am happily using NixOS, but I think its advantages only shine when you want to spend time configuring your system. That being said, if you want to invest that time once and you stay on the stable version, you can also have quite a stable experience.
The other two options you listed are both atomic Fedora spins made by uBlue, which add minor customizations to the base image. Both of them seemt to be based on Fedora Kinoite, which would be another option. Fedora in generally is more opinionated, which is good if you don't want to tweak anything. If you want to try out multiple of these options, you can always rebase your current atomic Fedora desktop to another image.
I share your desire for a system that always, 100%, every time, is there and ready to be used.
At the same time, I really like arch and the convenience of the AUR.
Hence, I boot-strap reliability onto my system through btrfs snapshots.
The setup is extremely simple, (provided your install is grub+btrfs) just install timeshift + the auto-snap systemd services. Configure it, and forget it.
Next time something breaks, instead of spending time on troubleshooting, you timeshift back to a known good point and then just get on with using your system.
With the auto-snap package installed every update also creates a restore point to go back to before it.
In addition to that, I started updating my system less frequency. The logic being that the more often you update a rolling release install, the more likely you are to catch it at a time when something is wrong, before it is fixed. Still regularly, but instead of every other day, I now have an update notification that goes off once a week.
The result has been zero time spent troubleshooting my system. If it worked yesterday, it'll work today. If it worked last week, but doesn't today, I'm a reboot away from a known good snapshot.
Oh, for sure. If you wait a month, the bigger update can be a lot more trouble.
But look at it like this. If a rolling distro has a problem once a week, which is fixed within 24 hours, updating daily guarantees you will run into it.
While updating weekly means your chance is only one in seven.
I had my first fuck up with openSUSE+Gnome a couple of weeks ago when impatient me killed my laptop in the middle of like 1600-updates. BRTFS was the only reason I didn't rip my hair out and the primary reason I will be switching my daily driver gaming rig to Linux, finally! That FS is the tits!
If six months from now you decide that you do need updates, Arch won't like the accumulated six months of updates coming all at once and might throw a tantrum.
Also not updating is a bad idea in general, you do need security updates for stuff like your browser. Please don't use an out of date system. If you want, install something like debian which will give you only critical updates that won't break stuff until the next release.
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Was curious if anybody knows what the military convoy along I-90 westbound past Bellevue towards I-405 Southbound? Lots of weird armored vehicles that had four large tires on each side instead of tracks, also asphalt paving equipment. Made it impossible to get from Bellevue to I-5 because they wouldn't let me in to get to the other side of the freeway.
Most of the time I see these convoys, they're transferring troops and materiel between the Fort Lewis army base, and the base's military training ground between Yakima and Ellensberg.
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