Han chauvanism

Standardizing package management? Imagine everyone being stuck with .rpm

naahhhhh… (i play 2D games)

loser city up in here

I guess I’m saying you can dismiss the Daily Mail without developing speculative conspiracy theories to explain away its claims. A broken clock is right twice a day. But, yeah. I wish OP had posted a source other than the Mail

But didn’t Kim Il Sung, the first leader of the DPRK, father Kim Jong Il? And didn’t Kim Jong Il, the second leader of the DPRK, father Kim Jong Un? And didn’t Kim Jong Un father Kim Ju Ae, viewed by South Korea as Kim Jong Un’s most likely successor? How many generations must supreme power reside within one family until you admit it’s a hereditary monarchy?

That, and once again you’re being incredibly rude and condescending. Please don’t call me “buddy” or talk about my “person” like that. Keep your mind on discussing the topic and hand, and avoid getting emotional and attempting to insult me.

I don’t support Putin but that doesn’t mean I blindly dismiss that civilians get harmed in military conflicts. The thrust of your reasoning appears to be “Ukraine is good, Russia is bad, killing civilians is bad, Ukraine killed Russian civilians…DOES NOT COMPUTE…CONTRADICTION…DISMISS THE FACTS”

Like, dude. War is Hell. And it’s never as simple as good guys and bad guys. Sure, Putin is a clear bad guy. But most everything else going on is morally grey. As for the facts of the attack, this was confirmed by AP, the BBC, and CNN. Are you sure the British are Trump/Putin media? What about the AP, which has been barred from the White House over Trump’s “Gulf of America” debacle? There’s no excuses for not simply looking it up. You made this post 35 minutes ago.

EDIT: To be clear, I do oppose Trump, Putin, and the Daily Mail. They are all authoritarian right-wing in ideology if not outright neo-fascist/neo-nationalist/proto-fascist

so it isn’t a hereditary monarchy? or are you just going to attack me personally instead of making an actual argument regarding the topic at hand?

The article was about Windows. And, no, I’m not on Windows. i use GrapheneOS on my phone and triple-boot Arch/Debian/Fedora on my laptop. I’m just making the point that the article was about Windows so replying with UNIX commands doesn’t really make sense.

You really had me until you claimed workers are in charge of the DPRK. it looks like a hereditary monarchy to me.

for Windows?

For people who are beginners when it comes to computers in general, yeah. But for people who are new to GNU/Linux but experienced with CS/math, it’ll really not be that hard to run archinstall and configure from there. It’s not that different than many other distros, which also have an installer and then post-install configuration to contend with. I’d just argue arch has newer packages and better documentation which some beginners (in the sense they’re coming from macOS/Windows but know how basic software concepts) might appreciate.

I don’t think archinstall is drowning sysadmins/programmers/CS students. What it will do is teach them to swim.

To be clear, I don’t recommend it. But it was once favored over KVM for a variety of applications and it works in a fundamentally different way. I’m just surprised how quickly it’s lost favor among techies.

I looked into it, and you make a good point.

The CFC is commanded by a four-star U.S. Army general, with a four-star ROK Army general as deputy commander. This pattern exists throughout the CFC command structure: if the chief of a staff section is Korean, the deputy is American and vice versa.

I’m not saying the US is a perfect democracy. I’m stating that they’re relatively more democratic. I don’t think the US is a democracy. But I do think that it’s relatively less democratic than the ROK, which appears to be headed vaguely in the direction of democracy, unlike the US or the DPRK. But we’ll have to wait and find out as to whether they actually make it there. Good point about the concentration of economic power. Which obviously means political power as well. But their right-wing aspiring dictator seems more likely to be held accountable for his crimes than the US’s. And maybe that says something about their relative degrees of democracy.

Good point, honestly. But, if worst comes to worse, I expect continental Europe to stand with other continental Europeans and their interests before it stands with the likes of the US and UK.

When did Xi Hinping get rid of term limits? 2018.

Yes, Russia also did this. And it’s possible that the US will do this. And the US does support some monarchies. But that doesn’t mean that we should steal-man one regime and straw-man another. Instead, we should be critical of all authoritarian governments. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.

When did ethnic cleansing start in Xinjiang, China? 2014.

Does the US support ethnic cleansing in Israel? Yes. Is the ethnic cleansing in Israel worse? Quite arguably, it’s much worse. Is the US doing it externally and China internally? Yeah, but so what? The Biden/Trump can’t say “well other countries have done ethnic cleansing in the past” to normalize theirs. Likewise, Xi can’t say that what’s happening to Muslims in China is justified because the US also has internal racism. That would be whataboutism. We should acknowledge all atrocities without insisting on comparing them and only condemning the worst while excusing all lesser forms of discrimination.

Is China the biggest polluter? Yes.

Yes, the US is a larger polluter per-capita. But China is hardly the world’s role model for sustainability. I think Cuba might be an example of a country with a fairly good lifestyle and state of development relative their per-capita environmental footprint (although they have other problems).

I’m so tired of the oversimplified thinking you people display. Authoritarianism is wrong, red or blue, Black or White, right or “left” (I don’t think authoritarianism in peacetime can be justified by any true leftist).

Oh, and Does China censor LGBT? Sometimes; it depends.

And before you say, “The US does these things, too, but worse,” reach for a glass of nuance. The US does some things better and others worse. We arguably have greater freedom of expression/speech and more turnover in leadership. Not to say we are totally free and democratic. Just that China seems to be farther from freedom and democracy with respect to censorship and elections.

I think that’s loosely true of the party in general, especially the higher-ups. But it’s worth pointing out that at least some people within the party, e.g., Ilhan Omar, who differ from the mainstream and who are genuine leftists.

it’s a good beginner distro because getting thrown into deep water is how one learns to swim. archinstall makes it easy enough to install. some configuration may be needed, but that’s the point of Arch as a learning process! still, i’d recommend Fedora, Tumbleweed, or even Debian (it’s out of date but some people prefer UIs that don’t change very often and it still offers 32-bit for your grandpa and his old laptop that’s now too slow for Windows 10/11) over Arch.

Arch is good for beginner sysadmins/programmers/CS students. Fedora and Tumbleweed for enthusiasts who want the latest software but aren’t trying to be that hardcore. Debian for people who have old laptops and only want to learn GNOME/XFCE once and never have to re-learn it with every update.

Gentoo is a good example of a distro that’s absolutely not for beginners. Arch, on the other hand, really isn’t all that bad.