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aleph , (edited )
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What happened is that Biden and his team completely screwed up. They called for this debate and agreed to its terms, which included the fact that the moderator team would not be fact checking Trump in order to avoid accusations of bias.

These terms shifted the onus of calling Trump out on his biggest lies to Biden himself, who would have known that Trump would try to gish-gallop his way through the debate and avoid discussing policy because that's precisely what he did in 2020. The fact that Biden failed spectacularly to counter Trump in any meaningful way is the reason why he lost the debate.

aleph ,
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Yeah, that was the single biggest Biden blunder of the evening, IMO. I was dumbfounded.

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From the article:

A 2022 study found that of the 57 justices who have sat on the court over the past century, the six justices with the most pro-business voting records are the six members of today’s 6-3, rightwing super-majority, all appointed by Republican presidents

Looking to switch distros ( kbin.social )

Hi, sorry if this isn't the right place for this question. I've been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for about 9 months now and have also been experimenting with an Ubuntu GNOME Wayland session for the past month or so. I don't really like distro-hopping, but using X11 isn't cutting it for me. After giving GNOME an honest shot, I...

aleph ,
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I’ve been running EndeavourOS (Arch-based with really good defaults and a very helpful community) as my daily driver for two years, and honestly I feel the “Arch isn’t stable” trope to be way overblown, based on my experience. I personally had more issues with Fedora and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed than I have with EndeavourOS so far.

Also, if Wayland is a priority then I would suggest sticking with Gnome. KDE has come a long with their Wayland support but it’s still pretty buggy in comparison.

P. S. If you do fancy trying the KDE route anyway, I would disagree with the other commenter and say that Debian is not an optimal distro for KDE. This is mainly due to the fact that KDE development greatly benefits from quick updates via a rolling distro, and Debian is pretty much the antithesis of that.

aleph ,
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I’m assuming your problems with Gnome are due to the UI? Have you tried adding extensions like Arc Menu and Dash to Panel to achieve a more cinnamon-like experience?

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With the first few points, I feel like these are probably things that will either get easier as you adjust to the Gnome workflow, or can be remedied by extensions. I recommend installing the unofficial Extension Manager app my Matt Jakemen, which comes with a built-in search. Makes finding extensions very convenient.

The issues with the notifications sounds a bit weird. They shouldn’t be taking focus away from the app you’re working on. I use Thunderbird all the time and it never does that to me. Also, xfce-notifyd? What is that running on Gnome?

aleph ,
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I logged into it using the same login that I use for my LM Cinnamon session; I’ve heard this is not ideal, and this issue is probably one of the reasons why.

Ah yeah, this will be why. Installing different DEs as the same user is pretty much guaranteed to create conflicts and generally should be avoided. It’s always best to create a new user account for each different DE you want to try out so that it doesn’t screw anything up.

P. S. Gnome includes a Wayland session by default, so you don’t have to install it separately like you do with KDE.

Stuck between distros right now. ( kbin.social )

So, this sucks. On Mint, Firefox was running super sluggish to the point of being unusable. I reinstalled Ubuntucinnamon because I enjoyed using it when I had it installed, but between me last having it installed and now there seems to have been an update that has broken cinnamon's system tray. Which, for me, is a major...

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Fedora has a pretty good cinnamon spin you could try out

fedoraproject.org/spins/

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