I hope it develops into a full split. Chances though Europe will crawl back if the “genocide-lite” party wins.

The sandboxed nature of them can be a hindrance when doing software development.

Shame on Egypt

I got permission from HR and the CTO to install GNU+Linux on the work desktop.

Why did you switch, and what was your process like? What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?

Free, installs on my existing hardware with near-zero effort. I have it installed on old yet still functional Macs that Apple doesn’t provide security updates for anymore.

“rules-based order”

Why would China want to invade the US? For its oft delayed Amtrak trains? For its copays and deductibles? For the HFCS that’s in everything? Or for the HOA that will call the police on you if your grass is too long? The fabs are in Taiwan. I can’t think of anything of value the US has that China can’t find better elsewhere even as a consumer economy.

Because you don’t understand that “Chinaman bad”. China ending the civil war and reuniting is evil, the US needs Taiwan to contain China.

I would love to see it.

On the plus side for him he doesn’t know how to spell exasperated.

“Arab country bad”

I am looking forward to GNU+Linux usage share numbers a year from now. I think it is very likely to pass 5%.

MediaBiasFactCheck is trash though and has a pro Israel bias.

Turkiye stood by Ukraine and welcomed Ukrainian refugees and this is how it is rewarded?!

I got this map from BBC dated 20/11/2025.

It translates Windows API calls to X and POSIX API calls. Theoretically it comes with a performance hit but as benchmarks have shown that is usually not the case as both Wine and the entire system as a whole are more efficient than Windows. Wine will fail whenever an application requests an API call that is not implemented yet, sometimes copying DLLs from Windows helps, sometimes…

You don’t have to distro hop to switch desktop environments. You can install KDE Plasma (5.27 though) on LinuxMint.

Better late than never. I hope the momentum continues.

If you want a Webkit-based browser just use GNOME Web (formerly known as Epiphany).

The inclusion of references to an independent Palestine was the price the US paid for backing from the Arab and Islamic world, who are expected to provide peacekeepers for an international stabilisation force (ISF).

The language fell far short of the firm commitment to the building of a Palestinian state alongside Israel sought by Arab and Islamic states, as well as European council members, but in speeches to the chamber after the vote, delegates from those countries said they were prepared to accept the compromise in the interests of extending the current truce and immediate measures to feed and protect the 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza.

Not ideal, far from it. But it is something that even the Biden administration wasn’t willing to give the Palestinians. It makes it harder for Israel to annex Palestine, but it provides no real promise or timeline for statehood. I do believe that time is on the Palestinians’ side which is why Israel had to be as violent and brutal as it did and commit a genocide while the whole world was watching. Israel had a clear goal of forcing the Palestinians out of their lands, and despite the high toll, they failed. Instead they turned themselves into pariahs and hastened their demise despite the US-led rule-based-order that guarantees their safety.