it reads like whataboutism.

If you have problems with me saying ‘Isreal’s crimes are wrong’ without clarification about Hamas being bad as well then you should have first had problems with the guy saying “Hamas attacked Israel in the bloodiest assault in history”, implying everything Isreal is doing is morally permissible.

They clearly have a regard for civilian casualties.

People who bomb civilian areas do not care about civilians casualties.

And you inserted your own pro-Hamas

Saying that Isreal shouldn’t be killing civilians and doing ethnic cleansing is not pro-Hamas.

Neither party should be doing those things.

You can be against the Israeli government’s war crimes AND against Hamas’ war crimes.

I am.

Try it, having principals instead of an agenda is freeing and might feel good to you.

Perhaps you could try not assuming the worst out of people you don’t know.

When I say “indiscriminate” I mean “disregard for civilian casualties” not “random bombings”.

Please keep insulting me. I’m becoming so convinced you’re right.

But you Hamas supporters

I don’t support Hamas.

and only care about Palestine because they’re brown

No, I’m just against ethnic cleansing, which is what Isreal is currently doing and getting billions of dollars in support for.

Isreal shouldn’t be doing ethnic cleansing, nor should Hamas.

Your white guilt is so fucking lame 😂

It’s really a sign of intelligence to assume things of people you don’t know and have only ever spoken to on the internet.

Hamas doing something horrible doesn’t make it OK to starve the entirety of Gaza

Terrible thing Hamas has done

Hamas doing something horrible doesn’t make it OK to starve the entirety of Gaza

Terrible thing Hamas is doing

The U.S. is about to dump billions in military aid for Isreal.

Here’s France:

Amid fears the fighting to spiral into a wider regional war, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and told top Israeli officials that he came “to express our support and solidarity and share your pain” as well as to assure Israel it is “not left alone in the war against terrorism.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israels-increased-strikes-across-gaza-kill-more-than-700-people-in-the-past-day-palestinians-say

not as an organized and permanent method of displacement.

Yeah right

They’ve been bombing civilian centers that they know are predominantly of Palestinian ethnicity.

They’ve been evicting people from their homes based on ethnicity. The law gives Isrealis preferences in land disputes.

And now they’re telling everyone in Gaza to abandon their homes.

These are three different actions.

Isreal is indiscriminately bombing civilian/Palestinian population centers and diving people out of their homes.*

What Isreal is doing absolutely falls under the category of genocide.

Kill civilians is indefensible.

Well gee, that sure does give Isreal the right to do ethnic cleansing. It’s self defense after all so everything is permissible. /s

Money/users/recognition isn’t really what OP is suggest linux wins on.

Good, probably for the best.

Honestly, yeah…

I don’t play it very often. I only ever play it when my girlfriend and her friends rope me into it.

You have way more practical experience than I do. I haven’t even tried any of these on actual hardware yet.

Honestly installing it on a VM and checking around is a huge chunk of the experience, so you’re not missing much.

https://github.com/mateomaui/DebianInstall/blob/main/debian-install-3-apps-or-no-nvidia.sh

Hell yeah.

If you’re making scripts like this, you should have no problem with LMDE.

If you (or anyone) wants to contribute changes to that install script, feel free, I’m just working it out.

I might do so down the line. I’m not the most experienced with shell scripts, but I am knowledgable enough to fumble my way through a server maintenance script for my self hosted minecraft server.

I will say right off the bat, it sounds like you know a bit more about me, so whatever you decide will probably already be a pretty informed choice.

With that said, having used ubuntu occasionally in the past, it doesn’t feel all that different from Debian. They are roughly equally functional, performant, etc.

Before I found Debian Mint, I wrote a script for base Debian 12.2 to auto-install

I probably should do something similar, because down the line who knows, I might need a full re-install.

because I have no idea what I could be missing in the background on my Debian install, or didn’t set up correctly because I don’t know about it.

Very anecdotally, like I said there has only been two programs that I haven’t been able to get running that I really want. That’s fusion360 and dungeon draft. Both of which I could pretty easily get running in a VM.

Actually now that I think about it, there is a 3d program, and that’s fortnite. But that’s because their management doesn’t give a flying fuck about linux, and so their anti-cheat breaks the game. So no distro will be safe from that.

I also noticed that Debian Mint currently uses a newer kernel than Ubuntu Mint

Again, it sounds like you are much more informed about it than me. But personally, it hasn’t made a difference for me. I can run my games, the basic internet browsing apps that I like, etc.

Has there been any particular thing you had to do to Debian Mint to make it work better for you?

The most complex thing that needed set up was getting my drives auto mounted on startup. But debian mint has a pretty straightforward way of setting it up, so it took maybe 5 seconds.

Beyond that, it’s just been a small bit of effort setting up the programs I use. Steam, freetube, the prism minecraft launcher, my nvidia drivers, cura, KDE connect, gitkracken, vscode, vlc, etc. It is really low effort honestly, basically the same effort as windows. The software manager/library on debian has been pretty decent to me.

Yeah, I was a bit disappointed with the compatability as well. But luckily it hasn’t effected me too much on mint. So far only two programs I use haven’t been compatible, and even then they aren’t programs I use often.

What’s your preferred file manager, if you don’t mind?

Nemo, which is the default for mint.

Also another reason I switched to mint now that i remember, I wanted to switch to a non-Ubuntu system. The whole point of switching to Linux is to get away from all the corpos getting their hands on your system/data. Unfortunately I only learned how shitty canonical is about it after I unstalled zorin.

So I currently have mint debian edition installed.

The file explorer has some pretty limited options, and not many features. Or at least, it doesn’t have some of the features I like by default.

It does have zorin connect, which is really nice, but I later found it it is a re-skinned version of KDE connect, so not much is lost by moving to another distro on that front.

It also seemed to not have as good windows support for certain things. BG3 kept on crashing on me for some unknown reason, with zero error messages to troubleshoot. On mint it worked first try, like it ought to.

At the end of the day, zorin just isn’t as customizable as I want, whereas mint is.

I made the switch about a two months ago. I’m using my windows side of my dual boot a hell of a lot less than I thought I would, mostly thanks to steam’s proton.

Started with zorin, but eventually landed on mint.

That, and ending the apartheid.