Nah, maybe 10 years ago or so. Now you install it with a script and it just works.
Installing packages on Arch is way, way easier than doing it on Ubuntu, the OS that for some reason people keep recommending for newcommers.
And since installing packages is about the only thing that you do with your OS as a beginner, that’s a big deal

Kenshi mentioned!

Seriously?

No, and never was.

Countries that do authitarianism become bad, yes. That’s exactly how it works, glad you’re getting it.

Tankie always meant a fan of authoritarianism but not of the nazi variety. And hand to hand with that goes hate for America, but hate for America isn’t enough on it’s own, it should be paired with love of Strong Hand Of The East.
Tankie thinks China, Russia, North Korea are just swell, and not because of some underlying ideology, but because they have an authoritarian model of governance and generally in opposition to the west to some degree.
And that’s the reason why it’s so hard to define for some people, boiled down to it’s definition, it’s very hard to spin into something universally good, so talking to a general public they have to do what authoritarian lovers from the other side of the spectrum call “hiding the power lever”, which muddies the water.

Nazi dogwistle.

You very deliberately created a sentence rhat doesn’t tell the truth while being not incorrect.
There is nothing Biden administration did in 4 years that is even comparable to what Trump is doing, but because they also weren’t perfect and did some bad shit, you can technically say both sides bullshit as if you achieved something.
Well, I am ungenerous, by bothsidsing you actually helping the worst side, but I don’t know if that is your goal or not.

You need to find, pressure, back up, help and signalboost elected politicians who are willing to challenge that. Or civilians going the route of lawsuits. Or Luigy some motherfucker or two, but that’s more of a desperate option.

It’s safe when infrastructure exists, people used to snow, and everyone has winter tires.

With a nice car, his own business, and seem to have his shit together

That’s definitionally not what the word means. But you probably believe that you can predict the streaks in slot machines so I am pretty sure I’m wasting my time here

Not understanding the difference between the game of skill and the game of chance is exactly the grasp on reality that I expected from you based on this thread.

Which is why so many day traders end up going bankrupt.

Well yeah, so do most of the gamblers, but some miraculously don’t, but we don’t believe that playing rouletts is a skill now. Incidentally, moat of the people who consistently gamble but don’t go bankrupt are people who have more money than it’s possible to lose in one sitting.
Playing stonks follows exactly the same logic.

I really don’t like how “consumer-friendly” means “GUI that resembles Windows” in the minds of so many people.

If your protest isn’t disrupting shit, you are doing it wrong.
For example, I really really hate broken windows, but when French go smash shit on Champs-Élysées they are doing the right thing (most of the time).