well given that I’m american I dont have an issue supporting an American company (if you’re European, good job getting out from under our thumb. we have too much power) but I do want to support a more trustworthy company.

so mint on a better base and with a good de… I’ll have to look at it again

i dont have anything big enough to back up to. my system has 1.5 TB.

yeah ive heard about KDE Linux but its too early to use rn. hadn’t heard of microOS

might have to look at that

thats definitely something I want. i really want to be able to have compatibility with as many apps as possible and podman/toolbx are awesome for that.

I’m definitely leaning that way so far, are there any major differences from fedora I need to be aware of?

i dont like ubuntu, both stock and as a base for something else. my experience with distros based on it has been pretty bad, and given the choices canonical tends to make I dont think they are heading in a direction I like.

true, but imo its even worse on Ubuntu. i just like KDE better

i dont think I have. ive tried leap and tumbleweed or whatever they’re called before but I didn’t see any reason to use it over fedora at the time.

i think this sums up what I was getting at a little better than I said it

even when I was on like tuxedo os it was helpful

how much easier/less complex is cachy? it looks interesting but I havent tried it.

ive tried arch a couple times but I dont really get a lot of the options and its a bit more technical than I’m looking for.

i figure, I just want to be ready if something does happen.

They are stealing data that can be (and is, often) used to track you across the entire internet. many social media platforms (again, especially tiktok) use this data to straight up manipulate people into spending more time on their platform and having views that align with the interests of the company. this is especially bad if the interests of the company are really the interests of an authoritarian government that is blatantly hostile to other countries unprovoked.

Not Chinese bad, Chinese government bad. because the Chinese government has so much control, Chinese companies can’t be trusted. yes, stolen data is bad. I know that data is being stolen anyway, but tiktok has historically been very bad about it. however, i was reffering to them moving from one shitty Chinese platform to another even more shitty and even more Chinese (as in controlled more by the Chinese government) one, when there are platforms that are from places that do not have an authoritarian government able to control any company if they so choose. of course something like instagram (reels) or youtube shorts isn’t much better in terms of data theft, but who has the data does matter no matter how hard you’re coping.

fucking idiots

sounds like they are doing what the 3ds did with some upgrades. hopefully the “AI” is actually useful instead of just being injected into a product that doesn’t need it.

that’s fine bc nobody can run it anyway. just do your graphics like control and it’ll run fine even without upscaling.