the fat controller from thomas the tank engine?

I’m just going to assume they are referring to earth at this stage

why are you farming for downvotes?

*bribe all levels of government

You will have a better time with an all amd system (amd cpu’s are just currently better, and amd gpu’s are more linux friendly)

Every game that I played on windows, I can also play on linux

Build your pc with at least 2 drives, with 1 drive ideally just for the operating system. Not the end of the world if you cannot afford that, but it does make things easier long term, the same applies to windows installs.

Ignore anyone who tells you to use mint as your distro, they are either trolling you, or trolling themselves, it’s trash.

Don’t expect to find the distro that suits you straight away.

Don’t judge all of linux based on the choices you initially make.

Don’t listen to trashtubers like linus

If you are coming from windows, the desktop environment ‘kde plasma’ should be your first choice (as opposed to gnome, xfce, cinnamon etc etc)

I don’t see any of those 3 as good, or even decent choices. I distrohopped initially, and did it again recently out of interest. Most people will just go off of searches, forum posts, and trashtubers though, which may lead them to believe that linux is crap due to ending up with crappy distros, and/or de’s

The variety of options are a pro, and a con, as are of course the opinions

It’s an odd (verbose/rambling) read, there is a lot hidden in the detail behind the plethora of choices

When you are first looking into linux, ubuntu still comes up a lot though, as does mint, and pop.

https://lemmy.zip/post/69739725

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

When getting into linux it was easy to remove ubuntu from the list due to them being like this.

Fedora considering ai earlier this year, and now debian talking about maybe slopping it too, is starting to creep me out even more about the future.

“I only use it to” is far too common in ‘fuckai’

I have mad skills, I can write my own emails.

I read 1, 7, and 8, as they appeared to be the options not just saying ‘ai yay’. I stopped reading each of those options when they appeared to turn into contrary bullshit. I very briefly scanned some of the other options.

None of them appeared to prohibit the inclusion of ai. The verbosity comes across as deliberate, rather than informative to me, knowing how much people scan these days.

I have debian installed on my 2 pc’s, but do not actively use it, and this would be my first insight/interaction with the people behind it, and the ‘community’. If this poll is the 1st step in the process, I have to question why the 1st step was not simply ai: yes, or no. With a result of yes = empty partitions where I used to have debian.

ai was always going to be manipulated/controlled by bad people, no doubt there are people out there who see ai as the beacon of truth for some deluded reason, and their number is likely to increase in time as ai says ‘trust me bro’.

Is that a real question, or do you use ai?

They appear deliberately vague and misleading

The 1st round should be yes, or no.

Choice A in the developer poll still allows for ai

"It does not include:

Upstream projects using LLMs for development
AI-related software
Upstream patches/security fixes etc."

The correct link:

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

I thought debian was better than ubuntu, hopefully I was right. I only have it installed as a back-up/look more into later distro, so it is very easily deleted if they wander down the nuclear wasteland path.

Use the filters (including init software) to narrow your options:

https://distrowatch.com/search.php

Doesn’t matter if they trust them, like them, or respect them… as long as they fund them, the billionaires are happy.

I’m sorry, but “I’m sorry” is not how you start a sentence, unless you want everyone to know that you are not sorry (which you should be for starting a sentence like that).