Though I have yet to try Guix, I think I'd move over to it if they adopted something similar to flake support. The idea that it uses a non-arbitrary language for declaration is very appealing to me. Do you know if it's simple enough to get non-free kernels, though?
Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey. From what little I knew about Lackey, I thought she wrote fun pulp fantasy novels, so I read the book after a particularly heavy downer book. It has a gay romance and magical psychic horses; how could it not cheer me up?
And then I proceeded to sob uncontrollably on and off from the middle of the book onward.
One of my writing techniques has always been to employ metaphors to explain complex issues. In a blog post last week, I explained the behavior of the United States, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others by arguing that the way they operate in certain situations mirrors that of particular species.
Some readers from the region and elsewhere found it illuminating and told me so. Other readers, including respected colleagues, didn’t, and told me that any use of animal or insect species to describe people or discuss the highly charged issue of the Israeli-Hamas war is dehumanizing and unhelpful. They cited instances in which such analogies have been used as racist tropes. My goal is always to provide insight into this area of the world and its peoples, whom I care deeply about. And that means always listening to the criticism, as well as the praise.
One can’t be a columnist — or a reader — calling on combatants to hear the other side if you don’t model it yourself. So, this is not a hard call for me. If invoking a metaphor or image alienates and angers part of my audience, I know I used the wrong metaphor. I don’t mind angering readers some days — that comes with the job — but I would never want to leave anyone feeling insulted, even if I hit the mark with others.
This is a painful conflict that has so many people feeling raw. The most useful lesson I learned as a journalist covering the Middle East on and off for some 45 years is to try to be a good listener. Because two things happen when I listen: One is that I learn when I listen. But much more important is what you say when you listen. That’s because listening is a sign of respect.
I found over the years that it was amazing what people would let me say to them, write about them or ask them about — if they thought that I respected them. And if they thought that I didn’t respect them, I could not tell them the sky was blue. And the way they perceived respect, first and foremost, was if you listened — not just waited for them to stop talking — but deep listening. One can never do that enough as a columnist, reporter or reader — especially today.
This is probably the closest we'll get to an apology from a Pulitzer winning writer, unfortunately.
Is it not well-known that trans people are generally more private about their bodies and sex lives than the general population?
Not by a long shot. Trans people are thought of as pornographic and obscene because most people's only knowledge of them is unfortunately through porn.
Plasma and GNOME are two completely different projects made by completely different organizations made on completely different technologies with completely different philosophies. That would be like proposing that McDonald's and Wendy's merge.
Yes, open source development isn't necessarily as efficient and doesn't lend itself to as nice of UX/UI/etc, but that's not the point. The point is the freedom. Do I wish, as a GNOME user, that GNOME had certain features that Plasma does? Yeah, but part of the reason I like GNOME is that they're so stringent about what makes it into the DE that it makes for an infinitely more polished experience than Plasma. You can definitely approximate the GNOME workflow on Plasma well enough, and that's the great thing about Plasma: you can do almost anything you want with it.
You're not the first person to propose that open source projects merge, and you certainly won't be the last, but freedom also implies that you work on what you want to, so let people work on what they want to!
BTW, there are certainly more DEs than just GNOME and Plasma. Maybe try Budgie! It's like the default workflow of Plasma mixed with the simplicity of GNOME.
Endeavour has plenty of "beginner" tools, including a kernel manager (literally called A Kernel Manager) and a friendly GUI Welcome app that helps you update your system and your mirrors.
In short, the maintainers have made questionable decisions over the years, and the Arch Linux packages are held back by two weeks on Manjaro for... basically no reason.
If you want an out-of-the-box solution to Arch Linux, just use EndeavourOS.
Right here.
This post also clarifies the differences between the entities that make up the Open Collective family and what this dissolution means.