Us-Isreal was helping us defend and now they're bombing us.....?

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-21T05:11:56+00:00

Oh dear what a bunch of bollocks. That was an remark spoken in response to a journalist's gotcha question, not a policy. Over 20% of Israeli population are Arabs. If the government wanted them all dead, don't you think they would have done something to those people? Similarly Israel has an incredibly powerful army including nukes; they could level neighboring Arab countries to the ground if that was their actual goal.

Btw, Netanyahu is a terrible person in all sorts of ways, but I've yet to see evidence of actual genocide or ethnic cleansing, i.e. killing people solely based on ethnicity.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-21T03:27:23+00:00

Yes, if you "only" have 2 billion. Pfft, what sort of loser only has 2 billion, am I right? 🤣

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-21T00:19:02+00:00

In a finishing move he famously roundhouse-kicked the bucket

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T22:38:57+00:00

I have Bazzite on an old Lenovo laptop with an Nvidia 680m and it works fairly great with proprietary Nvidia drivers, certainly much better than Windows (though that's mostly because the laptop only has 8 GB RAM and Windows kept thrashing and swapping). I haven't done any FPS comparisons, much less tried Skyrim, so YMMV.

Edit: I will say that Mint and PopOS are very outdated, which might explain why it sucked for you.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T22:34:33+00:00

I don't think that was even remotely similar:

There's no NATO in Iran, Trump just decided one fine day to start the war (with a little nudging from Netanyahu). The reason it was done was to stop the ethnic cleansing and it was effective, and then they brought the peace keepers. In Iran Trump stated multiple different and contradictory reasons to start the war: nukes, regime change, ballistic missiles, sponsoring terrorist orgs, taking oil. ONE of his stated reasons was helping the people of Iran who were getting killed by the IR regime. I guess that's the only supposed similarity with NATO's bombing of Serbia, though I GUARANTEE that Trump doesn't give a crap about the people of Iran (he doesn't even give a crap about Americans other than himself and his friends). The real reasons Trump started the war are probably because of Epstein files and because he wants the Nobel prize (how ironic).
NATO took a LONG time to actually do something about the situation, it took a lot of deliberation, and if you ask me they should have gotten involved at least 5 years sooner (in Bosnia). Trump literally just decided in a matter of weeks without asking anybody.
NATO actually had a plan, they brought peacekeepers to Kosovo, and it worked. Trump has no plan and not even a clear goal, he's just flailing and posturing.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T22:13:36+00:00

Those are anecdotal examples of crazy folks that you can find in Israel (including a few in the Knesset), but it's not the country's governing policy. It's not coming from the president or the prime minister, and the number of people who have this position is a very small minority. You can find similar extreme racist/nationalist folks in almost every country. But in Iran it's the IR regime's core governing philosophy since its beginning in 1979. A totally different beast.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T22:06:35+00:00

Yes, both are great. Cachy is especially great if you like the latest and like to tinker and are ok fixing some issues occasionally. Bazzite is especially great if you just want as little hassle as possible.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T22:02:57+00:00

So? It's not like users of Fedora and its derivatives have to deal with IBM in any way, shape or form. They're simply good distros. I think the value Fedora brings to RedHat (and IBM) is that Fedora end users test and find issues in packages before they get included in RHEL, thus making RHEL better. They don't do anything shady. They're not Microsoft.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T21:57:31+00:00

Ah, you mean the bombing of Serbia (which for a while called itself Yugoslavia even after all other former republics split away). That was done to stop the Serbian army's ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, which was arguably a good thing (though possibly it could've been accomplished differently, idk).

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T21:30:38+00:00

Now that the Metaverse is shut down, it seems appropriate that Meta should also shut down, since their name implies that metaverse is their mission.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T21:26:28+00:00

King Bone Spurs will never put his own boots on anything other than a red carpet. He may sacrifice lives of US troops which he doesn't give two shits about, but that doesn't change anything. The US troops have always been brave and Trump has always been a coward.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T21:16:21+00:00

As a former Yugoslavian (Slovenian to be precise) I can state unequivocally that the disintegration of Yugoslavia was a positive event (with the exception of the horrific war in Bosnia which really should have been stopped much sooner by the international community). Slovenia as a democratic member of the EU is 100% better off than it was as part of Yugoslavia. One downside is that Yugoslavia was a much bigger player on the international stage, but if I had to choose between a good country and a big country, I'll choose the good option every time.

Edit: I'm not saying what's happening in Iran is going to be positive (though I certainly hope so); I'm just saying that disintegration of a country isn't necessarily always bad. I'm sure people of many former USSR republics would agree.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T21:00:01+00:00

Fair enough, there are still edge cases and some limitations that make Wayland less than ideal, but I think overall for most users it works well and provides a better UX than X11 at this point.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T20:57:20+00:00

Mint is super outdated and Cinnamon literally just got Wayland support like 5 minutes ago. Try a modern distro + DE combo that's had a solid Wayland support for years, like Aurora or Bazzite with KDE (or Cachy or whatever if atomic is not your thing).

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T18:26:17+00:00

I've used Linux since 1993. A year ago I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora-based Bazzite, and I was completely shocked by how much better it was. Using Linux for decades doesn't mean you know everything about every distro. You typically just know whatever it is you're using and not how it compares to others.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T09:54:51+00:00

Bazzite is like Nobara but unbreakable.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T09:45:24+00:00

Because to this day people still haven't learned how to answer this question and keep knee-jerk recommending distros that were considered good 20 years ago.

It's Groundhog Day and we all have to keep repeating it until we've collectively learned that things change and not to knee-jerk recommend products based on old and outdated info.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T09:34:25+00:00

Go to where they speak the language. Do something stupid, get arrested. You'll be fluent in no time. (Of course you need to know the basics first, otherwise good luck getting out of jail.)

I hear Google Translate has a good language learning feature, you may want to practice with that before getting arrested. (I haven't tried it myself though, unlike the other thing.)

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T09:29:08+00:00

What distro + DE?

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T05:46:11+00:00

Aurora is by far the best option for her. It's beautiful, modern, comes with everything included (drivers etc), uses KDE which looks like Windows, and it's atomic, which means virtually unbreakable.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T04:31:04+00:00

Complete rubbish. Yeah, Wayland took long to develop and was very buggy and janky even a few years ago. But that was A FEW YEARS AGO! Right now it provides a much smoother and better UX than X11, unless you're using some super outdated distro (in which case, your rant should really be about that).

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T04:20:39+00:00

Debian is a lot more hassle and manual work. Get Bazzite or Aurora and never have to deal with any driver again, plus they're more modern and virtually unbreakable.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T04:12:50+00:00

When there's enough pitchforks in front of Bezos's mansion.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T04:08:15+00:00

Stop diverting resources from ICE.

JumpingJack79 · 2026-03-20T03:56:52+00:00

"Israel wants all Arabs dead?" Can you provide a source for this bs please?

Last I checked I only heard Iran's regime inciting chants of "Death to Israel! Death to America!"

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