Yeah, but afaik it’s an experimental music group from the 80s that just happens to be German by nature of “being born in W Berlin post-war.” I’m semi familiar with them but I just gave their wiki a quick search for “controversy” and unless you know something me and wiki don’t, them being German isn’t enough especially considering the founding members weren’t even born until the 50s, I’ll give them a pass for being -12 and -14 when the war ended.

What’re we just claiming everything German is WWII even after WWII? Fuck Can, Kraftwerk, Amon Duul II, Neu!, and all that? No thanks, I’ll cede my nationalism to you since I don’t need it.

Love me some Fedora, why should I switch to an immutable version? The thing that gives me pause is I like being able to change my system when I need to and have it persist, which is from what I understand the exact opposite idea of immutables (but I may be misunderstanding, thus this comment asking lol).

How come I can only find pics of this tattoo in Sons of Anarchy screencaps?

It couldn’t possibly have been makeup for the television show about a fictional biker gang where he was playing a fictional high ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang named AJ Weston, could it?

I’m gonna need proof that this guy, who espouses anti-racist and anti-fascist principles with his words all the time, actually has this tattoo outside of hollywoodland, or I’m inclined to say “nuh uh.”

(Pretty sure the upside down peace symbol is makeup too actually since I can’t find that either. The Black Flag, Misfits, creepy crawl spider, Einstürezende Neubauten symbol, and Raw Power are however real.)

(Also I just noticed your name is a play on SatansMaggotyCumfart and, Bravo, flawless execution).

I’d have hit him with “everything but the OG three and Clone Wars cartoon is dogshit anyway, fuck off.”

Whether you agree with that or not it’ll probably piss him off and be funny.

Winter must be ROUGH.

No, when the dev was a kid he pushed another kid off the swingset and I’m pretty sure it was racially motivated. Better just move into the woods and use only stone and wood tools you make yourself, just to be safe! Never know who could have done what, the people who are “good” probably just haven’t been caught being bad yet.

and you have established good friendships so you can jump right in.

Think again! An opioid epidemic has hit your town, all your friends OD’d or moved to attempt getting clean, or the one who moved for school. The one that’s left is moving 5hr away for a girl he met 6mo ago. You’re also a male in an age bracket known for having a hard time making meaningful connections, superficial ones come and go like the tides.

What do I win, and can I return it for store credit?

So, no laundry, eating, bathing, shitting, anything like that? What’s your secret?

(In fairness shitting can be combined with either the 40hrs/work if you’re smart, or with the 56hr/sleep if you’re not, but then the no bathing or laundry becomes a bigger issue…)

They seem to simultaneously be ineffective at anything, but also responsible for all the evil in the world

Why does that sound so familiar? Hmm…

OH. Uh-oh.

So transphobia and authoritarianism are totally cool just as long as they don’t wear Hugo Boss?

Who knew.

It’s been asked a million times, and it’ll be answered every time, and the answers will mostly be “Mint, Fedora, FedoraKDE, and if you wanna game Bazzite.”

The real advice that gets posted less, regardless of distro:

• Back up your important files to an external drive, often. It’s entirely possible you’ll fuck up an install beyond repair (or beyond what you know how to do at the time) and you end up reinstalling. If you can just put your important files back and be up and running, nothing of value is lost.

• Don’t be scared of the terminal, it’s incredibly useful. Look up a few YT vids like “bash basics” or “linux terminal for beginners” or something and follow along like it’s a class, you’ll soon be comfortable enough to use it when you need it, and you will, and you may come to love it. It’s not as bad as windows cmd! Be careful when using sudo or su, that’s when you could really screw up the system (but mostly it’ll be fine just be careful.

And most importantly, have fun!

But my two kicker 12"s, kenwood head unit, and JL audio speakers are better than the broken tape deck that used to be in my 2002. And it wasn’t that hard to just install myself, bro.

And linux was better on my 2015 Toshiba Satellite with 8gb DDR(was it even 3?) that outright refused to run windows 10 because it was so bloated, because Linux ran. By the time I got to upgrading the PC, why would I have gone back to windows after tasting true freedom?

and every now and then they find another way to fuck half the internet.

Like literally today lol, it has been giving me shit all morning.

So, I’m gonna be a bit of a contrarian here, but my main advice is to abandon requirements 1 and 3.

As to 2, you’d be looking for an immutable or atomic distro, those are harder to fuck up.

BUT I urge you not to be afraid of the terminal, it isn’t as scary as it looks! Try watching/following along with a couple “linux terminal for beginners” or “bash for beginners” videos on youtube like they’re a class. They’ll teach you the basics you need to be a LOT more comfortable within like an hour, and you’ll be a lot better off for it. I did the same and now a few years in I prefer the terminal for many things and cringe when I have to use the windows GUI at work for something that would take seconds on linux by typing one command that amounts to a sentence. It’s a very powerful and convenient tool and I reccomend not shutting yourself off from it.

No matter the distro, you’re likely not going to fuck it up so bad it can’t be fixed, but do be careful when using sudo in the terminal as that is when it’s more likely. That said, no matter what (even if you stayed on windows), you should keep offsite backups of your most important files, things you couldn’t just redownload again. That way if you do fuck up, you can always just reinstall and replace your files no problem, it’s free! Sure nobody wants to take like an hour to do that, but still nothing gets lost which is the most important part.

As for not requiring a password, no. You want the password checks. Security is important, and what’s more the password checks themselves can act as a “be careful this could fuck your shit up” warning. As annoying as they are, it can be a good thing!

I’m sure you’ll get plenty “try this distro” responses so I’m not even going to go there, but my advice honestly applies to all distros equally.

Tl;dr: Passwords safe, terminal good actually.

Yeah same here, they deleted my old addr for inactivity, fine, so I made a new one. “Flagged for review, cannot send/receive emails at this addr yet” 2d go by, “flagged harder, reach out, using the email that can’t send email, to tuta support and explain why you need this acct.” Tried to send the email, perhaps unsurprisingly, to no success.

So I created a Disroot acct instead. They also flagged me for review (but then approved me, and I did it twice so I have two disroot accts which I need for different reasons), and their sign up site is pretty bad (it says “weak password” until you get enough chars in the prompt, coulda just told me that instead of making me insane rolling 30 different passwords in keepass…) but still, much better now, I have IMAP and disroot doesn’t delete for inactivity, so, woohoo!