I still consider myself to be primarily a Windows user (I can actually properly troubleshoot stuff there), but I have dabbed in Linux many times over the years. I'm using Garuda for about a year now and I'm super happy with it.
As for other distros - I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Tuxedo OS (basically re-branded Kubuntu, specialised for Tuxedo Computers), Fedora, PopOS, and probably a bunch of others I'm forgetting.
Garuda gave me the most "just works out of the box" experience to date.
Don't get me wrong - there was still a bunch of things I had to do to get the experience I truly liked, but it gave me the fewest and the least annoying surprises so far.
As for things it lacks - if you get the "Dragonized" edition, you end up with a fairly heavy KDE, and some... questionable default theme choices. I'm running the Garuda Mokka, and I think it just looks super pretty out of the box. I disabled a couple of Window Decorations, but even out of the box it wasn't anything super over the top. You can also always switch to one of the classic KDE themes, like Breeze.
This was my first foray into Arch, so I can't tell you if it "breaks" anything someone experienced with Arch would be annoyed about.
The distro comes with an installer that asked me if I want to install Lutris, Steam, Heroic Games Launcher and the AMD drivers. Asked me about my browser preferences, including Vivaldi, which I actually use. It also took care of installing Wine and Proton GE for me, I just had to select them from a list.
It also includes a Garuda Toolbox application which is a general "I don't understand Arch but need to do maintenance" kind of software. You hop in, drop tasks into a queue (things like checking for updates, clearing orphans, merging .pacnew, etc., etc.), and then it handles executing them all in the appropriate order after just a single root password prompt.
"Latest" as in "Insider"? I'm on the first Patch Ring at work, so I'm one of the five people who get the latest patches, but we're not Insiders. We had 3 BSODs last week when MediaTek fucked up their WiFi drivers and the devices crashed if connected to WiFi 7.
The previous BSOD I saw at work was 3 years ago. The tech came in, replaced the MOBO and the issue was solved.
It's ironic how, just like people make jokes of Linux audio even though it's been stable for years, people stil joke about Windows throwing BSODs or requiring reinstalls non-stop, even though the last BSOD I had that wasn't caused by faulty hardware or a weird one-of-a-kind driver issue was... 12 years ago? Something like that.
Okay, but can you see how that’s not actually what you said?
You just called it stupid.
He said, and I quote:
Yeah, it was made at a time when the concept of a war was a months long preparation of deploying troops and moving assets into place
Note the plural in "months".
Then he added:
You might want to look at the preparations for the invasion of Iraq if you want to know what an actual preparation for a war looks like.
If you don't know, the prep for the 2003 invasion of Iraq took 18 months.
Even the extremely rushed (due to the fact that Saddam was actively killing Kuwait) Desert Storm took almost 6 months to prepare.
Note that Iraq is 1/3rd the size of Iran.
But with hindsight, do you think that carrier deployment unrelated?
It's not that it's unrelated. It's barely consequential considering the scale of the operation. And by "operation" I mean "the actual preparation that would normally take place if someone competent was responsible for the planning of the attack".
The US has assets (including carriers) in the region practically non-stop. One more or less doesn't really change much in the context of them burning through ammo supplies, or the fact that @UnspecificGravity@piefed.social was 100% right in saying that this was completely rushed.
Sure they were! Nothing happening over there had anything to do with the women that were kidnapped, raped, and/or killed in the custody of the Guidance Patrol! Everybody celebrated these as beautiful moments of religious expression!
The ideal scenario, now that the greybeard kicked the bucket, is for Iran to fire a ballistic missile straight at Netanyahu's arse, Krasnov suffering a heart attack, and Vlad just watching his entire country crumble to bits as his economy dies, and his military collapses from lack of manpower.
i think israel should also exist, its absolutely stupid to propose it be removed cause then you have the problem of a bunch of jews having nowhere to go again
And, more importantly, you lose the moral ground on which you get to protest the Palestinian genocide when you're advocating for Israeli genocide.
On the other hand they should be sanctioned and stopped from commiting constant warcrimes and palestinians live their lives in their rightful territory
Absolutely agree. UN forces should secure the borders (as they were originally defined) and consider any settler a terrorist.
The russia situation is a bit different. Theres no real reason for its existance. Its a bunch of russians opressing minorities, they should have their own country if were following the ethnostate idea. At very least european and asian russia should be seperate countries. But yeah thats never happening.
Yup. I kind of hope that their economy crashing will allow the eastern provinces to reach independence, but at the same time I realise that it would be suicide for them. Like, even if they somehow managed to get the money and food to supply and govern themselves, there's no reality in which China doesn't immediately swoop in and grab half of Siberia.
I still consider myself to be primarily a Windows user (I can actually properly troubleshoot stuff there), but I have dabbed in Linux many times over the years. I'm using Garuda for about a year now and I'm super happy with it.
As for other distros - I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Tuxedo OS (basically re-branded Kubuntu, specialised for Tuxedo Computers), Fedora, PopOS, and probably a bunch of others I'm forgetting.
Garuda gave me the most "just works out of the box" experience to date.
Don't get me wrong - there was still a bunch of things I had to do to get the experience I truly liked, but it gave me the fewest and the least annoying surprises so far.
As for things it lacks - if you get the "Dragonized" edition, you end up with a fairly heavy KDE, and some... questionable default theme choices. I'm running the Garuda Mokka, and I think it just looks super pretty out of the box. I disabled a couple of Window Decorations, but even out of the box it wasn't anything super over the top. You can also always switch to one of the classic KDE themes, like Breeze.
This was my first foray into Arch, so I can't tell you if it "breaks" anything someone experienced with Arch would be annoyed about.