procapra

Forget everything anyone told you about Linux, think of each distro as its own OS.

Flatpak and Snap are the ones that work with everything and are the closest equivalents to .exe files. App images are kinda like the portable apps that were popular like 10-15years ago on windows. (Anyone remember using portable Firefox on a flashdrive?)

In addition to these each distro has its own kind of package format. (.DEB, .APK, .RPM, etc)

Just because 2 distros share a package format doesn't mean they are compatible, in the same way a winxp .exe might not work on win11.

Idk if windows still has a 32bit version, or if it has an ARM version, but that's what the .amd64 and .arm64 thing is for. Most people want .amd64.

Except for the .RPM package (which is presumably a Fedora package) all of these are clearly labeled by distro (Debian 10, Debian 11, Ubuntu, etc).

If you have a 64bit CPU and run Debian 11, you want:

debian-11-amd64.deb

but why run this over flatpak,snap,or appimage?

Disk space. System packages like this do not bundle the dependencies to run the application with it. Instead the dependencies are installed on the system a single time and shared between all applications.

Nowadays there is a push to migrate to using things like flatpak and snap but some old school Linux heads don't really want to for either political reasons or just because it's different than what they are used to.

I'm a big big fan of Debian. The installer can be a little intimidating for newbies but I think it's a great all-around "throw it at the wall" kinda Linux distro. Ubuntu is based on it so you'll find similarities between them.

All the power to ya! Doesn't matter if it's Stable, Testing, or Unstable, if it works for you that's all that matters.

There is a way to "pin" package versions isn't there?

I wonder if that would prevent this kind of thing from uninstalling a package that is in transition. Ofc, it wouldn't get any updates, but I'd take that over just not having the package.

Flatpak works though!

Debians testing branch might be a good shout. Packages stay pretty up-to-date and usually stuff doesn't break. Worst case you can pull a package from unstable when needed.

You have total free will. You can choose to follow or break the laws, you can go do drugs or be a hobo somewhere if that's the life you want to live.

Life is just your will to do something. And if you lose the freedom and will to do anything, you're, in my mind, already dead.

I think linux distros are a coinflip on if they like your hardware or not, sometimes it feels like they just don't like you individually as a person.

When I use fedora for example, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. It's in theory not any more complicated than debian, but I've never had good luck keeping a fedora system healthy.

With Debian, usually the best troubleshooting tip I can give people is try installing testing instead of stable. Sometimes the kernel in stable is just too damn old for the hardware you want to install on.

The best thing you can do is just never center white people. 99.999% of the time that's the wrong way to frame your argument.

I fully understood what you were trying to say, but I can't say the responses you got are at all that surprising either.

👍 Will do!

Eyy, I appreciate the green light.

I sent him a message on discord so we will see!

I think this is incredibly fair and I am sure he has already seen this post and read it, but nonetheless I will forward it to him.

The only thing I'll say is that point 5...I really don't think anyone else on revolupedia even uses this site? I have an account on there but I have made maybe 2-3 pages on there at most. I'm just not all that good of a writer haha. Any accounts you think are his are 99% probably his. We actually used to make jokes about this in RS because Saul just has so many fucking alt accounts for every single possible website/service. "All of us are Sauls alts!" and other jokes like that.

I hope it didn't sound like I was trying to say that everyone should just get over everything that happened. Rather, I just didn't know what else to do for him. It's not like people haven't told him before to stop coming here. I probably tell him this atleast once a week.

Anyways, I'm sorry for any and all stress you've had to endure because of his behavior and hope that you can enjoy the rest of your day.

In the extremely unlikely event that indigenous people got direct executive control over what happens in the continental united states, I don't think they'd even want the mass exodus of all white people. Nor do I think they'd want full cultural assimilation. My entire life, the prevailing narrative has always just been the end of systemic oppression. Very frequently I've heard indigenous rights activists demand the free use of/free travel across land for things like hunting, which is a pretty small ask. Just because this or that action would be justified, doesn't mean it's the action people want. IMO the second minority ethnic groups feel safe and represented these kinds of mass exodus narratives will fade away. Doubly so if there was a transition to socialism that went with it, and some thought went into identifying the different national identities (so something akin to a soviet of nationalities could be formed).