EponymousBosh

Well, I don’t have DID, but from what I understand, alters are just people? They might hold some traumatic memories and experiences, but they’re not like…serial killers. I recommend looking up stuff written by people with DID if you’re curious.

I’ve been on a deep dive about Mormonism, so I’m gonna say Joseph Smith. Yknow, earlier than he was actually killed.

On the one hand, 150 years puts us at 1876, so closer to living memory than you might think. On the other hand, a fair number of people aren’t even doing that cursory level of math.

Basically everything and anything to do with mental health/psychology. People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (or “Multiple Personality Disorder” as it used to be known) do not have “evil” alters. DID is also not the same thing as schizophrenia. OCD is often not focused on hygiene or cleanliness. Antidepressants aren’t “happy pills,” and while emotional blunting is a possible side effect (not the entire point of taking the medication!), it’s often a sign that you’re on the wrong dose or the wrong medication. People don’t typically self-harm because they’re suicidal. Eating disorders don’t always have a focus on body image and anyone of any body size can be affected. There’s no singular mental illness that causes people to be abusive or violent, and mentally ill people are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators. Etcetera.

That’s weird, when I type it, it says “hunter2”

Part of the problem is that the “Just Use BSD” Guys are to the FOSS-sphere what the “Just Use Linux” Guys are to the rest of the world.

I see people recommending Debian but you also said you enjoy tinkering, so I’d recommend SpiralLinux. It’s basically Debian but it uses BTRFS so you can roll back to a previous snapshot if you break something. I don’t think Spiral has updated to Trixie yet so you’d need to manually upgrade but that’s not too big a hassle if you do it immediately.

So the NVIDIA graphics card is not as big of an issue as it would have been even five years ago. Just use the proprietary drivers. And for my money, Linux Mint is the best distro for beginners, hands-down. You never have to touch the command line and everything just works.

I second this, with the addition that you can also use DistroSea to test-drive distros in your browser. Also, DistroWatch has a search that you can filter by “Beginners” to find some that might be easier.

California is not the center of the universe, but in the US, a fair amount of companies have to tailor their practices to accommodate California law, because A) it’s so weird a lot of the time, and B) California is huge and rich, so there’s a lot of business to be had. It just makes sense to accommodate the outlier. What happens in California has knock-on effects for the rest of the country, and occasionally the rest of the world; case in point, the recent systemd debacle. It’s not certain that they added the age thing in response to the California law specifically, but it was certainly a factor.

I really loved Garuda but the rolling updates kept breaking my NVIDIA drivers :(

If someone still wants “Arch but also nice,” I’d point them at Garuda tbh. I really liked it but the rolling updates kept breaking my NVIDIA drivers. If not for that I might still be using it.

I feel like you made this chart for me specifically, so thank you

A slightly more positive way of putting this is “choosing the set of problems you want to deal with.” I vastly prefer the problems that Linux hands me over the problems with Windows.

Nah, there was actual effort put into TempleOS.

Yup.

I really liked Garuda but I had to switch because my NVIDIA drivers kept breaking :(

There’s a couple new things being worked on; namely, Wayback and Phoenix.

Here’s the original source, AFAIK: https://www.tumblr.com/sirityzer/708726935428235264/my-brother-commissioned-me-to-make-some-linux

Yeah, KPat just does this. Skip em or persist in your doomed timeline, I guess.