He probably thinks they’re Chinese spies, and the tariffs are going to stop them.

Sorry for chiming in at about a year later, but I see some issues with the state of “Free Software”:

1: IMO, Libre Software is a better way to say it, since it doesn’t have the ambiguity that “Free Software” does. 2: Revolt is a perfectly fine replacement for Discord - it has almost no bugs, and works identically to the latter. 3: The average person does not, and will never code. Libre Software movements like the FSF should focus on more practical benefits of Libre Software, although not ignoring ethical concerns (e.g. never being locked out of your software is a big benefit, that covers both practical and ethical considerations)

Please do correct me if I’m wrong about something I said, but I wrote this with all the knowledge I currently have.

That hardware is very powerful, so Linux Mint (maybe Debian Edition) will do the trick.

This, too.

Keep in mind my response may have things added, as I verify and look into what you said, but here it is:

1: The Supreme Court is dominated by Republican Justices, which, if you take Trump’s stance about judges being corrupt and bla bla bla, that also applies for his judges - and Trump never accepted the election loss, so the abortion right removal technically happened in his presidency.

2: I never did imply that abortion has anything to do with DOGE, I separated those two things with something called a comma (which you haven’t used at all - oh, that explains it!). Medicare and Medicaid are, however, likely going to be cut off to save those juicy $1T to then give more money to the wealthy.

3: The rights being removed are not all by DOGE, but all are tied to the Trump administration, which does include DOGE.

This is officially rambling territory, but did you that if 99.99% of Elon Musk’s money (assuming he has between 300 and 400 billion dollars) was evenly split between every US citizen, everyone in the US would get 1000+ dollars, and Elon Musk would still have 30-40 million?

Even if he just lost 99.8% of his money, he’d have an enormous amount of wealth ($800M), and the US citizens would still get a lot of money? Do that but 6 times (to count for every billionaire, making each keep $800M), and uni-statians would get $5K each!

P.S. Poverty only happens because the wealthy want to subjugate the working class, and make rebels not make it through.

The right for abortion, healthcare (by the DOGE bullshit), among other rights.

I understand where you’re coming from, but there are some flaws with your reasoning:

• About Kernel anti-cheats: if you wish, you can dual-boot Windows and any GNU+Linux distro, without any issues.
• The LibreOffice thing: there is OnlyOffice, and even M$ Office has Open Document format compatibility.

I think so too. I just checked his profile, and it’s riddled with overly controversial opinions, to ridiculous extents.

Not that bad - the start menu opens in about 2 seconds, but some apps can take much longer (highly depends, but up to 6-10 seconds). I can easily work with a minimal, Windows 9x layout, if that means I will get a significant performance boost.

This. Any many laptops use eMMC, meaning that you can’t just increase the OS storage.

I was thinking of asking this too, but I honestly wasn’t sure how to - especially since I’m not even close to the Middle East and Asia, so I didn’t want to come off as insensitive.

How are you dealing with the fact that your family doesn’t respect your sexuality?

I prefer something that has the same functional layout as Windows, but is as lightweight and minimal as possible (a Windows XP-like Start Menu is fine, I just need something that is configurable enough and doesn’t blow up my laptop).

I do play Minecraft 1.8.9 competitively, but would using Wayland help with that?

Yeah, it does feel like Windows XP, but that’s also the beauty of it - I can customize it using the graphical editors, since the UI is not confusing, just outdated.

Thanks for this kind answer! I might game a bit on it (I am probably going to be the last person to stop playing Minecraft 1.8.9), but I don’t know how much better Wayland is. I can tinker a bit of the settings, but not too much. I also have another laptop that has half the specs (but a better CPU, for some reason) that I might use as a lab rat.

Web browsing, writing, playing Minecraft, and maybe some more things.

I think because: 1: I have a tiny bit of technical experience, although none with a Linux system. That’s enough to use something more advanced 2: Cinnamon is basically on par with KDE, in terms of performance, which is not good at all, since my laptop’s specifications are particularly sub-par.

Is one of the requirements you’re talking about the storage usage? If so, then yeah, that is a problem for me.

Mine’s cb0XX, from 2018! Can you tell me the distro that worked best, for it?