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The point is that you don’t know the first thing about American politics,

You couldn’t even comprehend the point being made, misinterpreting it so fundamentally I genuinely - non-ironically - believe you struggled reading the words being written.

and are wholly unqualified to make any comments about it.

And yet, what I wrote is an aspect of democratic structures so fundamentally basic it wouldn’t even matter if the US was the target of the comment. Funny how that is.

Let me hijack your comment mentioning Krita with another KDE app: Okular!

I simply can’t believe a PDF app can be this performant, this fully featured, and entirely free. It even works on Windows, if you’re trapped in that nightmare.

Adobe Acrobat Reader, from the people who created the PDF format, is unbelievably slow, it takes a thousand steps through an ugly UI to do anything useful, and any feature you actually care about is locked behind payment. Okular, a free tool, will load PDFs instantly, render previews flawlessly, let you edit, sign, merge, add text, select text, whatever you wish.

And KDE creates this app and a thousand others for less money than Mozilla wasted on some random bs last year. Long live KDE.

If you honestly think a military junta would be more representative of the American people than Trump, then I don’t know what to tell you.

Good thing I never made such claim and absolutely nothing on my comment reaches that conclusion, then.

Also our president is not elected via majority (or plurality) vote.

The details about your horrendous electoral system are irrelevant to the point, which by now is very clear you didn’t understand.

You’re not doing much to fight the stereotype of americans lacking basic reading comprehension though.

a huge emphasis on giving the people the power to write their own collective destiny.

A functional democracy is not a dictatorship of the majority, and people from the US love making this mistake. It is true that the president gets elected by a majority vote… but this person now represents everyone, including the minority that opposes them. They do not have the right to sink the ship and kill everyone because the majority thinks that’s a good idea.

It is natural that their government will make decisions aligned with their voters (in theory) but they shouldn’t be allowed to actively undermine the rights of everyone else.

No matter how inflated your perception of your “flawless” constitution and democracy is, this is something many countries understand pretty well and yours struggles with.

Claude is surprisingly different than ChatGPT in that regard. Whoever tuned the model tried to make it seem like Claude is got something resembling a personality and core beliefs.

For instance, you can easily bully ChatGPT into agreeing with you even if you make absurd points (the sky is bright yellow!) or directly oppose ChatGPT itself (AI models deserve to be deleted forever!) but Claude will often disagree or confront your arguments.

That’s a whole debate people from the US are not ready for

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I’m incredibly grateful to my colleagues and IT department at work for allowing me to use zero Microsoft products.

I don’t use Windows, Office, Teams, Outlook, Bing or anything made by Microsoft at all, both in my personal life as well as work.

Life is great!

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Well, if you look at my downvotes and read the upvoted reply below, you’ll see you do not exist! Yes, apparently regular users do not have hardware that requires any out of tree drivers. Your very reasonable 2.5gbe card probably does not exist, it’s all a product of your imagination! Bazzite is perfect!

if you need specific drivers that arent in a generic kernel you’re already out of everyday user territory even on a normal distro.

People will say some absurd statement like this one and then pretend to be confused when Linux adoption fails to grow faster.

That’s why we got dem tar and dnf

On Fedora, sure. Not Bazzite, on Bazzite you’d need distrobox to use it - users barely understand what Linux is, good luck with distrobox instructions.

I’ve also been able to find 99% of what I need through discover.

If what you need is Discord and Chrome, sure.

When you need specific drivers things change dramatically. And some packages technically exist as Flatpaks, but with permission issues that no regular user is ever fixing

I hate to go against the flow here, but I absolutely do not recommend Bazzite as a desktop OS. Surely as a living room or handheld PC thing, but not your main OS.

Immutable distros create a lot of pain when you need a package outside of the also problematic Flatpak world, and whilst there are ways to install them on Bazzite, regular users with no Linux knowledge would scream.

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