I’m on Mango, and it’s amazing for me. It’s well documented, as well as extremely flexible. I love it.

Vibe coded. Pass.

The word ‘normie’ is just insulting. It implies a hierarchy of knowledge that I just don’t accept.

Exactly. That second example infuriates me. Just give me something to troubleshoot, for fuck’s sake.

I mean, for gen alpha, that’s an intentional effect. Tech is becoming more and more obfuscated by design.

I used Cachy for a long time. It was really stable and dependable, in my experience. The Arch Wiki is also insanely useful. If you know how to troubleshoot, and you don’t mid tinkering, it’ll be fine.

The irony here is that the Luddites used machines. Nobody was weaving by hand in those days. Their grievance was not with machines in and of themselves, but with the machines being used to create an inferior product and oppress workers. Do you see the connection?

Nope. The stats show that most child predators are either someone known to the child already, or other minors who don’t know better. ‘Stranger danger’ is a moral panic that is not rooted in reality.

Linus Sebastian is such a normie shill hack. He consistently has the worst possible takes on everything tech-related.

I once met an AWB member. Actual quote: “We don’t hate racial slur. Don’t think we hate racial slur.” Just as casual as talking about a cup of tea.

I’m on Cachy myself, but I have put in a lot of time with vanilla Arch. Cachy has an easier installation process, although the archinstall script is also quite simple to use. Cachy takes better advantage of your specific hardware, so it’s good for squeezing a bit more performance out of your machine. Arch is more bare-bones, the idea being that you get to and have to customize it yourself, from near the ground up. It’s a matter of use case and temperament, really. Both are good, and the differences aren’t huge in the end.

Honestly, I didn’t report it. I just ducked out. Since I seemed to be the only concerned party, I assumed the mods wouldn’t care.

Yeah, it’s pretty bizarre. Regardless of the intended level of irony, it’s a very bad joke, in all senses of the word ‘bad’.

Yeah, it’s a bummer. Why must they come for everything we like?

As a general rule of thumb, I usually recommend Linux Mint to beginners. The installation and update processes are easy and intuitive, and there is a ton of software available, as well as good support if you know how to do web searches properly. The main trick is to try and remember that a paradigm shift needs to happen here. Linux is not Windows. It doesn’t work like Windows, and it has different aims and priorities. She will also need to be prepared to learn a bit and be slightly more hands-on with her computing. The learning curve with Mint is comparatively gentle, but it does exist.

This is all very broad and general, but I hope it helps. Good luck to the both of you. I hope you are satisfied with whatever you decide on.

So I have lived in South Korea for 6 years now. The fact that this fire has had such a major impact is quite typical of Korean bureaucracy and tech administration. Very few backups, infrastructure held together with scotch tape and bubblegum, overworked devs and maintainers. It’s a bit sad, especially for a country that exports so many tech products.