SpaceCadet

Yes, the USSR, famous for respecting the will of the people ...

https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs

The group of protesters remained steadfast, even in the face of annihilation. Shots rang out, innocents were struck, and people began to die. Nonetheless — there was power in numbers, and solidarity that allowed them to find courage — and thousands joined hands as bullets flew. “Students linked arms but were mown down,” wrote Donald. “APCs then ran over the bodies time and time again to make, quote ‘pie’ unquote, and remains collected by bulldozer.”

As if this wasn’t atrocious enough, the government’s criminal and brutal activity that day got even worse. With no regard for the families of these victims, not to mention their identities, what was left of them was disposed of — in an unspeakably callous manner.

“Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains,” Donald wrote.

Have you ever watched this, tankboy?

https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs

I especially liked the bit about using tanks to make human pie, and then flushing the pie down the drains.

And like clockwork, here they come crawling out of the woodworks ...

^^

Everybody gangsta until A stop job is running for…

As a user, why should I care whether the distro I use uses systemd?

Um, because as a user you may have to deal with services, or other systemd features?

Let's say you want to start ssh-agent when you login to your desktop environment. Well, there's a systemd service for that that you can enable, and on another distro you'd have to do it another way (autostart script or something).

So you're considering the 22H2 builds et al. separate versions, I just consider them service packs. They come with the regular updates, and the user experience doesn't significantly change. I couldn't ever tell you what "build" of Windows 10 or 11 I was on, but I usually know pretty well which distro version I am on.

But I guess it's true that they contain more feature updates than typical Linux updates.

I think you misunderstood. Windows 10 was released in 2015, and will have general support for all versions until October 2025. That's 10 years.

The current version of Mint, 22.1, was released in January 2025, and will receive support until April 2029. That's 4 years.

Had you installed the latest version of Mint in 2015, it would have been EOL in 2019. Had you installed Windows 10 in 2015, it would only be EOL later this year.

but when you explicitly state you are against it in the README of your project that is just wild

It's called a dogwhistle: they're letting other racist scumbags know that they are also racist scumbags and that their racist scumbag views are welcome, without saying anything overtly racist scumbag-y.

I use Arch myself (BTW :p), but I wouldn't really recommend that for users who freshly migrated over from Windows.

Yes, there are ways to get extended support (on Windows too btw), but a thing that should also be kept in mind is that "support" only means security patches and bugfixes, and not feature upgrades. There is also no guaranteed continued hardware support, nor guaranteed support from third party applications. On Ubuntu there's at least the HWE kernel, but that's also limited in time.

It's not criticism btw, it's just worth mentioning that the support model on Linux looks a bit different than what you get with Windows, and users should generally be encouraged to keep up with the latest release of their chosen distribution.