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This is why I do not use a rolling release distro.

Russia. Or pick any other authoritarian state.

There is not a better system. People need to remember that democracy is a terrible system but that it is better then any other known system and for it to work all parties have to be more or less open, honest, and accepting. The problem is that wealth and power always find a way to corrupt any system and the only counter to that is people demanding better.

The two issues in my view are wealth distribution and power distribution, and population X consumption. Climate change, propaganda, tribalism, authoritarianism, etc are symptoms.

I think it depends on what you mean by socialism. If you mean a system that is concerned with equitable distribution of income, wealth, and opportunity, along with a bunch of basic protections, it is quite possible. The more or less liberal democracies in Europe and America have had huge success. It is just that there are powerful forces that do not like that.

Geopolitically Russia and China are not liberal democracies and are lead by autocrats and kleptocrats. We are already in world war 3, but most people probably to not realize that. In the west, the rich and powerful care more about money and power and a lot of the system and the propaganda is directed against the social good. They are autocrats and kleptocrats and the systems sometimes feel more like autocracy/kleptocracy lite. There are powerful interests that vilify anything that might help people as ooh "socialism", bad. What we need in the west is really high turnout grass-roots engagement with people that actually educate themselves, demands a more representative system, and yes the hard one a population that realizes that a more or less and open honest accepting liberal democracy that cares more about people then power and wealth concentration is the way, and that fear, tribalism, and people that seek to divide people are not. People need to remember that democracy is a terrible system but that it is better then any other known system and for it to work all parties have to be more or less open, honest, and accepting.

Regarding companies. Automation is good. It allows for better jobs and cheaper goods. AI is just another automation tool. What is not good is how income, wealth, and power are distributed. Hence stronger Unions, less corporate giveaways, and more progressive tax systems would be a start. The other issue is wealth should not mean power, but it does because wealth controls everything. They buy the politicians, control the media, control the law including tax law.

Life has the meaning you choose to give it.

Why do you think someone 80 should dress any differenty? 80 is not even that old. My mom is like 95 and dresses the same pretty much she did decades ago.

As far as makeup and nails, that often looks foolish at any age.

The crime angle on immigration was always made up. Crime rates where lower than average among this group. So if you deport that group crime rates would go up.

Checkout this podcast which has an interesting take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o069oHLvDkg

Basically, they conclude that we all know who is implicated already and this is just a lot of meaningless distraction. They go on the point out that people from both parties are involved, and that even know we know by in large there has been no consequences and there is unlikely to be any.

I suppose this is because he ended the Russian agression in Europe months ago!!! \s

Tables are a great starting point. So is something like alternativeto.net and just go down through the list by popularity until you get to something sane.

There is also going to be disagreements about what is best. There is no best app. We all have unique needs and concerns. I know I disagree with many things Op said in such an absolute way.

Was he the one that went to Mexico during that big power outage?

Love how he and the admin do not want to take some ownership of this after wrecking the government. Saying Bidens fault or you should not be asking the question.

More of a rant. Post is kind of nuts. They are talking about a comparison matrix not a check list. How else are you going to compare.

Not surprising. The US is a petro state. It will never want to switch to something else. China and the EU are far more motivated.

Loyalty over competence again it appears. What a surprise.

I like Zim. Used it for years. The big advantages you can have many 1000s of pages and it just uses a folder tree not a database, so you have direct and attachment access if you need it. Zim is a true hierarchical wiki not a simple notes app. There a plugins you can enable for more advanced features.

Zim does get slower with more pages for some operations like searches and some changes. I have one wiki with 4500 pages and do feel it is getting a bit slower sometimes. You can however just create another notebook at any time as long as your content has reasonable dividing lines.

The poor health argument might be valid.

The low income argument on the other hand would suggest continue working and waiting until the SS, pension, and other income sources is enough. Even with poor health you kind of have to still do that to some extent. Don't get their conclusion about all of that regarding how one can retire without enough income. Just bonkers.

The article was not US based so they really do not understand US retirement anyway. What they mean by pension is Social Security. In the US pension means another form of pension like a corporate or government pension separate from social security.

Actually the safest thing is probably to choose a main system and run the other in a VM like with VirtualBox. For you, you could just install VirtualBox on Windows then Linux inside of a VirtualBox VM. Windows does have a builtin Virtualization solution too you may be able to use, but I have personally never done that. Keep in mind too that VMs are not as performant as bare metal. For video probably NO, for images fine, for audio maybe but you'll have to see if you get the real-time timing you need in a VM. Good way to play in any case. 2nd best if you have a workstation, not a laptop, you could put in a hot mount SATA drive enclosure, and just swap in the drive you want and get full bear metal performance. Dual boot takes some tech skill. Be sure to back everything up if you do that. Should do that anyway before fiddling. Also if you use bitlocker and secure boot make sure you have all your recovery keys and know how to work with your bios settings too.

Maybe I am missing something, not sure why you care about NTFS. If this is a separate computer you don't really care about that, just the sharing protocol (SMB for example). If it is on the main box, then you'd probably convert this to Ext4 or something similar. No reason to stick with NTFS with Linux. There are a lot of great FS options on linux plus BTRFS, LVM, or RAID to if you want redundancy.

Regarding apps. The alternativeto site is great. Linux has a bunch of audio and photo software. If your a pro, you may not find any of it sufficient. Especially a lot of people cannot do without Photoshop. The common quoted photo programs are GIMP and Darktable. There are many other photo and image programs. Common audio program is Audacity. Again, there are many others. Looks like some handle vst but I have no personal experience.

Linux only, SSH works fine. Not e2ee. Nextcloud works fine but extra work unless you use a service provider. It can be e2ee but not normally so. Syncthing worth a look too. It is not cloud storage, but direct device transfer. Bitwarden send is useful too if you want to juat send file someone, and thunderbird is working on thunderbird send which might be interesting.

Maybe Synology if you want your own lan NAS?

All email services have vendor lock-in unless your using your own domain.

For what it is worth, I just moved my mail from my ISP to my own domain at a hosting service after 30 years. Took about 5 months to get everything changed but if I can do it anyone can.

Downside, using your own domain is probably less private but kind of depends.

I get your point but I do not think you should justify releasing crap code because you think it has minimal impack on the customer. A memory leak is a bug and just should not be there.