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  • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.nettoaskchapo@hexbear.netFor the American chapos
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    3 months ago

    I’m voting green. I think PSL has a better platform, but green is more likely to get enough of a vote that anybody notices that people are voting third party.

    This is all splitting hairs. The national election takes up way too much room in the public conscious, and the primary reason you should vote is to keep “tough on crime” psychopaths and evangelical Christian cultists out of local government roles, particularly county sheriff, district attorney, and school board.





  • Don’t want to think, more used to using Windows -> Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition)

    Don’t want to think, more used to using Mac -> Ubuntu

    Picky, have a weekend to kill -> Look through the screenshots for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and all the Linux Mint variations. Download all the ones that look nice, and try them out on a live USB. Spend some time to fiddle with the file browser, web browser, and software center. Install your favorite.

    Willing to tinker with stuff to fit your exact crotchety old fart preferences, so long as you rarely have to do anything to maintain it -> Look through the desktop environments (Gnome, MATE, Cinnamon, KDE, etc etc), choose your favorite, and look up how to install it on either Debian or Fedora.

    Would enjoy ongoing tinkering and maintenance as a hobby to get it just right for you -> Arch




  • It shouldn’t take any development time, but the app stores are all run on over-caffeinated ferret logic, so yeah, they do need to have someone update.

    Keeping things updated is like a week of work for one junior developer every few years. A small team could do it for a large company’s apps in perpetuity. But under the ideology of capitalist software management, keeping such a team around is functionally impossible. (They would have idle time, some manager would see that and give them extra work, then when the app updating job picked back up, that manager would convince everyone that the other work they were doing is more important than updating apps.)