yeah that’s not what i’m translating, or the language i’m translating from.

…of what?

correct, but we’re not german.

my grandmother always used to say “everything is going to be alright and the sausage has two”.

she’s a synthesizer…

i’m inside my car almost daily and it’s only 14 years old.

yeah that’s pretty common

yeah idk about that first part

i’m in a union country. we even have a national union for people who aren’t in any work that has its own union.

today marks five months without a job. my union-provided salary insurance runs out soon and i’ll be down to unemployment benefits. i’ve applied for about forty positions and gotten something like five interviews total.

maybe i needed a break though. i’m almost done getting my motorcycle license, i’ve gotten into 3D printing, i’ve gotten my teeth fixed, and i’ve had time to try two different medications to help my focus. i wish it would help with the headaches though.

hm, not too much but not so little that it should cause a problem. maybe there’s something running in the background? i’ve not used mint for a while but i think you can see all running programs in the system monitor.

but the us doesn’t recognise the icc.

how much memory do you have? how much swap? usually linux uses less memory than windows.

i’m waiting for a create-like mod before jumping.

when you install a DE as part of system setup it’s usually preconfigured by the distro maintainers. otherwise you need to do that configuration yourself, which is more difficult.

cringe

of course but it doesn’t help the “this isn’t that hard” case.

yeah but that’s a step removed. if i’m helping someone set up a machine i will usually make the media beforehand, but they need to be present to set up their name and password.

idk if you’ve ever tried to guide people unfamiliar with computers through troubleshooting over the phone, but my experience is that the more explanations are given the more they despair, and the more choices are given the more confused they get.

reading the manual is sort of compulsory if you want to do stuff like changing DEs, and for most people (read: the 99% that don’t know what “operating system” means) the mere existence of a choice is enough to cause paralysis.

i really do like the new wave of “opinionated” distros like kalpa, cachy and aeon where the system takes care of most issues rather than the user having to deal with them. shows maturity. but this selector screen sort of runs contrary to that. either be opinionated or be fully free, imo.

i think that’s calamares, so any distro that uses it can technically do this. the reason most don’t is that you can just add more DE’s after install. i know endeavourOS and openSUSE do this, and i think fedora has something like this too?

but the main reason is to keep install size to a minimum. if you want your system to be installable without an internet connection you can’t just ship every DE known to man.