red had is just fedora with support isnt it?

bracing

i’m not forcing him into it, microsoft is

It’s not hers. it’s one of my computers that i am deploying to her house for her and her family to use.

It’s technichally for my neice but the rest of the family all also have access.

no one in that household has expressed a specific preference of operating system. other than my brother in law texting me to tell me one of the old games he tried to install doesnt work (i did promptly offer to “make it work” but he declined).

I have no problem with them installing windows on it if thats what they want. they wont be coming to me for technical support if they do though.

he’s still coming round to the fact he’s not getting security updates soon due to lack of a TPM module.

He’ll be running mint too by the end of the year

i installed linux mint on my sisters household PC last week.

my dad did his usual grumblings about “it should be windows” and i just said “i’ve been out of the windows ecosystem completely for the last 5 years and partially for another 3 years beyond that. i no longer provide support for windows, if you want them to have windows you need to support it”

he went quiet after that.

I’m waiting for decent support for the snapdragon x elite chips. From what i can tell from discourse online it’s still a very rough experience with linux.

I don’t want to drop £1500 on a laptop i can’t really use.

that is the nuclear option and can have severe consequences in terms of peoples trust in government and the democratic process.

People tend to be deeply upset when you take their choice away from them.

It’s not an option that should be used lightly

Yup, they still vote though. so again i say… so?

AfD is getting close to large enough to make forming a coalition to cut them out of the decision making process not possible without increasing fragile coalitions from other parties that dont work well together.

but keep ignoring the problem, sure

so? doesnt mean its not an issue that concerns the average voter. at the end of the day they’re the ones who decide who forms a government

he’s not wrong. AfD are on the rise in Germany, NF in France, Reform in the UK. Immigration is the core issue for a huge swathe of the european population. whether you believe in russian interferance or not it wont matter when these parties get in, which they will.

There is some extremely concerning polling in the UK putting reform ahead of all of the other parties including the one currently in government.

We have some strong european leadership right now in terms of rhetoric, but macron is weak domestically, and Merz had to form a coalition to keep the AfD out

and critics. dont forget critics

i use manjaro, which is an Arch derivative.

Manjaro is pretty popular. and the AUR is the tits