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  • Usually with Linux, once you start out you’re gonna get a ton of issues and you’ll have to troubleshoot them one by one. However, afterwards it should just be a smooth sailing.

    Also as a word of warning from my personal experience, official support isn’t something you should be that concerned about. When it comes to software, when some corporation makes some official version for a specific distribution (like Ubuntu), it usually is made by some B-team and doesn’t work that great. If the program is good, it should be available on most major distros rather than just “an official version for just one” if that makes sense.

    Also good call - if one distro is causing a fuck ton of issues, just give another one a try. The main difference for users between distros is what kind of software setup they are going with, and some setups are just prone to issues on some hardware or wasn’t tested properly. Still, I do hope Fedora treats you better.


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    18 days ago

    What you described is pretty much how electorialism works in the real world, both in the past and the present, and thanks to that we live in an absolute utopia.

    But on a more serious note, liberal democracy is just an illusion of freedom and an illusion of “power for the people”. In reality, it’s been meticulously crafted to only benefit the rich with its barriers for entry designed to keep the poor out - for instance, one has to get an expensive education to even get started (or have a load of money to buy a degree outright), having enough money to fund a platform for yourself to get enough supporters to form a party, then do expensive advertising of your party’s message, having funds to combat any kind of political meddling from the competition, connections that one wealthy enough might get are also incredibly helpful, etc. There’s a reason why the vast majority of politicians parents links are blue on wikipedia - it’s not a meritocracy.

    There’s many more critiques like how checks & balances are there to keep the capitalist system and not necessarily to stop abuses as certain populists are demonstrating nowadays, how people are essentially powerless after voting for the next 4-5 years, electorialism being used to distract from class struggle (via reactionary politics, culture wars) which keeps people from turning against the rich properly and instead choosing which side of the rich one wants to support, etc.

    In short, if there’s going to be any meaningful, good change for us workers, it isn’t going to come from electorialism, and its important to be aware of this fact, not grow too complacent.

    At the same time, there’s no revolution to be seen, partly precisely because of the things outlined above so yeah…





  • Back when writing the comment, I had imagined the person with a rainbow to represent some liberal progressive ideology, that’s all about the social cause while actively avoiding the equally as important economic causes/aspects. Though now that I look at it, I suppose you’re right, it might just be a queer person and not a representation of any ideology.