Let me put it like this: Imagine you’ve won this beautiful pristine house full of potential and it cost you absolutely nothing. You can rennovate and decorate and do anything you want with it. Endless possibilities.

Instead, the first thing you decide to do is call up Larry Ellison and invite him to personally come and shit on your kitchen floor. And one day you forgot his shit was still on the floor and you stepped in it and now Larry’s shit is all through your house. And then the phone rings and it’s Larry because he’s been monitoring your house and now his lawyers are suing you for stepping in his shit.

In addition to VirtualBox being a fucking awful piece of software, Oracle is the absolute antithesis of Linux - anti-user, anti-freedom. Why would you put that closed-source, privacy-trampling, proprietary bullshit on your pristine Linux install? . Use KVM virtualization instead, or even a more modern docker-ish like solution.

Finally, some sense.

5 TABLESPOONS of butter? Jesus. That looks awful.

Excellent OS choice - great for noobs and veterans alike.

Why wouldn’t you? OpenRC FTW.

If you’re running Virtualbox on Arch you deserve everything you get.

Back up as much of hugging face and/or civitai as you can before corporations lock it all down.

Artix is great if you don’t mind Arch. Devuan is great if you like lightweight Debian (server install). MXLinux is nice if you want Debian with a usability/UI focus. As for security focused, I don’t know what that means. A machine is either secure or it’s not. Chuck SELinux on there if it helps you sleep at night.

They say it like it’s a good thing.

Not at work. Certainly not.

No it’s not. It’s very relevant - it’s the reason I’ve never recommended the software to anyone outside of close friends.

outside US and UK (and few others)

If we’re considering just the US, Canada, UK, NZ and Australia, that’s at least 470 million people for whom the name is problematic. As an enthusiastic Australian user, there’s no way I would recommend a program called GIMP to my higher-ups.

Unlike the towns of Bra or Fuck in Austria, the acronym GIMP was chosen specifically because of its edgy double meaning.

It’s not just awkward for Americans, but for the entire English speaking world - at least 470 million people. How can anyone seriously recommend a business use a program called GIMP? It is a massive hurdle to adoption in the corporate world. They should change the name, or at least create a business-oriented alias.

Agreed. XML has been dead for at least 10 years. Still, at least it’s not YAML.

To be fair, Photoshop peaked about 10 years ago and has been steadily getting worse. It’s only a matter of time before they’re neck and neck.

One of us is not making sense. Who does Israel represent if not their voters? Why is it controversial to say Israelis voted for their government? This shouldn’t sound like a conspiracy. Why are you trying to make a distinction between Israel / Israelis and Jews? You can’t just say “Well, all the bad stuff is done by Israel / Israelis, but all the good stuff is done by Jews.”

Well of course ‘Israel’ doesn’t represent all Jews. I never said that and neither did you. Israel doesn’t represent all Jews any more than Trump represents all Americans. But, as a democracy, Israel must represent the majority, otherwise this government wouldn’t be in power. So, again, I’m still confused by your statement that Israel doesn’t represent Jews.

Israel do not represent Jews.

I’m confused. Israel is a democracy and Jews voted for their current government. How can you say Israel doesn’t represent them?

Using ‘v’ to alias the citizens table was an interesting choice…

This was very well put. Thank you.