Man, Microsoft advertising for Linux Mint YET AGAIN?! They are so gracious.

Sad times. Another hit on freedom and democracy.

Good marketing point: LibreOffice has NO ENSHITTIFICATION! Great!

I like that you mention the point, Merkel's coalition made a full 180 turnaround. Which was an error. They could have just made a plan for phasing out the reactors until maybe 2040 or 2050. No, they had to stop them right away and now the existing plants are so gutted that they are not feasible to be rebuilt again.

Anyway, building new power plants takes centuries in Germany. So we should just focus on renewables *and storage solutions now.

Classic bot conversation?

I assume that is part of "Don't bite the hand that feeds you"... It's always about the money.

No shit, all the other parties are declaring an election program, and 2 weeks later they do exact the opposite of it. Of course people are disappointed from the current ruling parties.

God damnit, Counterstrike really fell off.

Why does the picture get cut off? 🤬

France again preparing correctly. Like with most things in the last decades.

nice try, mr. pedo

Oh.. I always used it like this, I didn't know I can just NOT check the "force compatibility" checkmark. Thank you, that solved the problem.

And I am talking about reality. If the police don't bring order to the chaos, we will have a bad time in this country. As I already said, I got in trouble myself, sometimes for nothing. It is what it is, back in the time I was furious too. But now I see that it was necessary.

Why is a protest for Palestina here even necessary? Or even for Israel? I give a frick about both of these countries. They are thousands of miles away and not even on the European continent.

I don't support this kind of extremism. People from Palestina have a bad time in their country, ok. Then they come here to Germany. ok. They get support and can live in peace. ok. Then they make trouble in Berlin. What the frick? Are you dumb? Enjoy the peaceful life we built here.

Go protest in some country that is adjacent to Palestina. Turkey or Egypt or Syria. Or Quatar, I don't care.

Munich tried it - called it project LiMux. It was stopped in 2017.

Maybe this time it will go better, although the reasons for switching back to Microsoft clients were fragmentation, no compatibility with other software and bad interdepartmental communication.

• Which I bet hasn't changed at all in Germany.

Good luck with it. Hope it doesn't fail like the LiMux project back then.

Hi, I appreciate that you consider to dump the bloatware. I recently installed Ubuntu 24.04, and also Ubuntu 25.10. And, unfortunately, I have to say, both versions have installation issues on my computer. In the installer, when I select erase disk and install with LVM, the installer crashes and isn't able to recover.

Also after the installation, I have graphic issues with the steam interface (only shows up when I run it from terminal) and sometimes the brave browser (snap version) just closes and nothing else happens.

As different distribution, I tried only cachy OS. Similar problems there. Not sure if my AMD CPU is not compatible with the AMD GPU I recently bought.. hmm.. Thought the AMD drivers were already built-in in the kernel..

Well, to sum it up, I have problems with Linux I didn't have half a year ago, and it may be hardware related. So expect to try some bugfixing.. Good luck.

It just happens that I tried to install a few of them the last 2 days.

1. Niri: Installation worked, but I don't like that the task bar on top can't be interacted with the mouse. I don't know if it's a bug, but it annoyed me. Pressing the Super Key did nothing, I expected to be able to select an app to launch. Frustrating. - Reinstalled again
2. i3: The installation took a whopping 2.5 hours. After the restart I was greeted with "login username: _" and no DE. Pressing CTRL+ALT+F1, F2, F3 didn't change anything. So the installation was just broken. - Reinstalled again
3. Cosmic: Installation worked, the default cachy Software Center did not. "Cosmic Marketplace" or how it's called, was an icon in the start bar, but the icon was empty and on mouseclick nothing happened. No program started. Always when I executed something that required admin rights, I just got an "Authentication failed" and was unable to type in the password field. - Reinstalled AGAIN!

That time with Ubuntu 25.10 and it worked, except selecting the default program for .txt files (I wanted to use Kate, but it throws an error)("Find new application" > Error > Failed to execute child process "gnome-software" (no such file or directory)).

All in all, it's nice to get an overview of what may be possible, but to test all of this is nearly impossible. I selected most installer options out of the box. Always chose disk encryption if possible. Over half of my installations in the last 2 days failed.

It's just a comparable GUI surface.

Error message:

Some of your game files have been detected to have no signatures or invalid signatures. You will not be allowed to join VAC secure servers. Please verify your launch options, check correctness of your game installation, restart the game and try again.

The converter says "Output: 65W" So it would be something, and a good place to start as the battery is there anyway and is plugged in all the time too, anyway.