DoomSayer

Depends what you do on Windows. As someone who never really got into gaming and who loved programming it was the obvious choice.

Windows singularly fails in some of the most basic operations you could want from an OS. It makes me so angry the way it takes so long to copy a bunch of files, for example. Or if it won't delete some files because one 'is still in use' but it won't tell me which one or which program is using it! Why? Its infuriating.

Linux has none of these issues. And with a enough time, native ports of some of the games I used to play became available. I would never go back to Windows now.

I'm trying to work out if you're a Russian activist or if you're a chronically online kid who stays up far too late and whose mind is so pickled by articles written by those of the calibre of flat earthers that he's completely lost balance and proportionality.

That's not to say there may be a few nuggets of truth in what you're saying, simply that you've taken these data points and you've joined them up so as to produce a picture that is unrecognisable. And for what? What's your aim?

The difference between you and I is that I'm not the one trying to drop 'truth bombs'. I'm not angry. I'm not insisting that everything I believe is true. This is how I can tell you're young. You believe you know a lot, but you have no wisdom.

If you're not a Russian activist in Russia or a country whose policy it is to support Russia, then I genuinely wish you luck. Having not only the opinions you have with your mindset and apparent need to control other people is going to get you into a lot of trouble. If you are in Russia or a country who supports Russia then I can understand why you talk the way you do. You'd be under the influence of a completely different set of propaganda.

You really are a twisted one. Good luck out there buddy. You're going to need it.

Yeah, OK buddy. You can tell yourself that, but you have no idea what I know. So I'll hang on my western liberalism just now. Ta.

Again, this is 2022. And again is exclusively looking at hash tags on Twitter. Here's the actual source https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-19097-1_3

What genuine conclusions can we reach here? That Ukraine is heavily appealing to the west for support? That's a widely known fact.

Does this activity validate Russia's position, and can we assume they aren't engaged in propaganda on VK or other social networks more popular in their country? No!

It's also widely known that Russia's challenge is convincing their country to send their sons to war. That's going to put a massively different spin on the nature of the propaganda and where it can be found.

Even if I concede your bot ratio argument. The bottom line here is that I'm staggered by the opinions so easily found here, and I'm doing what I can to test various theories I have to understand what's actually going on. So far I've been shown nothing genuinely surprising or new, except for the wild interpretations of much more sober facts.

I'm genuinely asking for information here. You talk as though my lack of understanding is some kind of position I choose to maintain. There are very few cases in which I would choose to dehumanise anyone. Except for perhaps the most extreme incidents of violent crime.

I'm someone who wants to learn what you know. Tell me.

Downvoted for asking an open question. I'm sensing extremism is lurking... XD

Credit where credit's due. That is a source. Just not quite for what I understand you are stating. This study was published in 2025, and used an internal Chinese university funding source in the year 2023/4. It is exclusively looking at Twitter (X) and Reddit posts about the Bucha massacre which took place in April 2022.

You appear to have taken elements of this study and are extrapolating it to reinforce a unilateral world view for all time that bears little association with the original research.

I ask you to note that genuine scientific research always starts from a position of openness to new information. This would be true if the study was repeated for a new topic today.

Where are you getting your information for this? I'm not about to take this idea onboard cause some guy on the internet told me and he really sounded like he meant it.

This all sounds lovely, but I'm struggling to see Russia's role in opposing imperialism following their repeated incursions into Ukrainian territory and the more recent full-blown military invasion and the subsequent war. I understand imperialism can be summarised by one nation ruling or attempting to rule over another. How do Russia's actions with Ukraine represent a "progressive" role in opposing it?