‘ignoring them is the best way to shut them down’ haha lol, lmao even. I wish I could still believe this. As the other person said, silence only helps the oppressor.

flip on the x-axis

actually genuinely this. The recommendations here are if you just want to install linux once and not think about it again but distro-hopping is really the best thing to do if you’re ok with re-installing everything once in a while.

gentoo!!

no but actually, linux mint is very good for newcomers, especially as its desktop has resemblance to windows. Pop!_os is also really good and better for gaming maybe? I would avoid ubuntu (slower and a lot more bloated) and especially manjaro (breaks a LOT without you even doing anything).

I might also cautiously suggest arch? It’s kind of a meme in the community because of its own community being seen as a bit toxic, but once you’ve got past the install and customization process (which does admittedly take a lot of time and reading), you have a system that is entirely your own in almost every way. For example, in the case of desktop environments, you can use cinammon from mint or gnome from pop!_os or even a more lightweight one like xfce. You also tend to have a more stable system, as you won’t have unknowingly have some unstable packages hidden in the bowels of your system that get relied on by 73 other packages and could break at any moment.

no not like that

honestly don’t even joke about that, you would literally just be shooting yourself in the foot

pls lighten up, it’s not that serious

OMG THIS IS SO RELATABLE. There have literally been days where I feel like shit and force myself to go to the library anyway to remove all distraction, and I end up just staring at my notebook and doing absolutely nothing for a quarter of an hour before I give up and go back.

omfg of course, classic $BIG_CORP$ stuff

same - i think it’s because the image is blocked in the UK because of the online safety act. Try using a VPN and see if that helps

HOLY SHIT THAT’S SO GOOD??

it’s fine for simple merge conflicts but it quickly gets messy when the two branches are trying to do opposite things to the same code

are you from the UK by any chance

I think OP was being sarcastic

OMG this is so real. I didn’t realise waking up from a ‘good’ night’s sleep and feeling miserable immediately was an ADHD thing.

Sarcasm doesn’t work online if someone could say the exact same sentence in seriousness

I don’t know if it changed my life, but my god it was cathartic - Celeste. I’ve cried while listening to the soundtrack and I’ve cried while playing it. Like, actual sobbing. Having a positively-represented trans character in media, especially in a game as popular and highly-rated as Celeste, means so much to me.

it’s different when you’re expecting it though. A random tee in the middle of the street is about as unexpected as you can get.

this feels more like a programming thing than a linux thing

why is firefox the de-facto ‘haha compile time = big’ package :(. pick on chromium instead, it takes like 7x longer to compile and is made by a worse corporation