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Fedora. I’d avoid Ubuntu and its derivatives like Pop! or Arch derivatives. I think Arch is fine, especially if you know what you’re doing, but Arch derivatives in my experience are much less stable than for example Ubuntu or Fedora.

But seriously. Fedora. It’s the best. Ubuntu is actually fine too but Blue > Orange

Chega de frescura e come o ovo de uma vez

Imagine you’re Farmer Bob in a temperate region great for growing apples and I’m Farmer Fred in a tropical area ideal for bananas. We each like bananas and apples, so tried growing both fruits, each of us harvesting 12 of our specialty and 6 of the other, making a total output of 36 fruits.

But then, we learned about the power of trade. We focused on what our lands did best: I harvested 24 bananas, you 24 apples. We swapped half our produce, and like magic - We both had 12 bananas and 12 apples each, totaling 48 fruits, a 25% increase just from trade.

But what if we stopped trading due to trust issues? We’d revert to the less efficient system, losing out on the additional produce.

Now, think of this on a global scale. When countries specialize and trade, we all gain. But as governments decouple from global trade, they’re choosing to lose these benefits, making economies less efficient. It’s a dangerous path where everyone ends up poorer.

And for our governments to deliberately choose a path that makes us all poorer - that means there’s an unchecked growing tension. It’s almost palpable. We’re already living through a Gilded Age nearly a century after the last one… what happened after the Gilded Age?

Call me a doomer but this is alarming news, even if understandable from a national security perspective

it’s good in the short term but realistically this news is a canary in the coal mine moment

we are decoupling our economies from the global system - increasing the chances for cold and/or hot war

I’ve been using the same distro for at least 4 years now and I haven’t ever had any issues. Fedora on a desktop at home. It’s very stable. You don’t even need to know too much… although obviously knowing your way around the terminal and knowing some basic things about Linux helps

applications are installed with flatpak - basically little containers that contain everything a program needs. sort of like docker

so normally if you wanna install something - let’s say minecraft. you would also need to install java. the flatpak for minecraft would have java inside of it so it can be run in its own little container and you don’t need to install either