So I can’t comment on capture one, but I do want to recommend Darktable.

Its floss, and IMO a much better workflow than the rest.

https://www.darktable.org/

Available for Linux, MacOs, and Windows.

See my comment full of examples of why.

If you need further explanation than that, I don’t know what to tell you. I hope one day you expand your view to accept that others can be at risk, and are no less at risk because others like them aren’t killed more often.

Even having to write that sentence seems absolutely insane to me.

Enjoy your day. I’m done.

You’re unduly expanding the scope of the argument.

No, I’m contextualizing.

leading cause

Frequency, irrelevant.

laws should be based in reality

And in reality, murdering anyone based on who they are born as is an entirely different thing than anything else.

The same is not true for men

The same WHAT.

You are referring to frequency. Repeatedly. I’m sorry, but either there is a fundamental language barrier at play, or I can only consider you as being incredibly exclusionary.

The gender identity of the person should have zero bearing on this. The fact that its a crime based on hate of someone’s gender identity should.

Thats it. Full stop.

I made another comment to explain in a different way.

Let’s try it this way.

Hate crimes based on sexual orientation occur many times more often than those based on gender expression.

By your logic, we don’t need hate crimes based on gender expression.

Hate crimes based on sexual identity are drastically higher for black people than Hispanic or white people.

By your logic we would only need to have hate crime legislation for sexual orientation of black people.

Does that make more sense to you as to why I say a hate crime is a hate crime?

You are saying that only the more frequent crimes require legislation.

I am saying the particulars (sexual identity, gender, race) aren’t as relevant as the fact that its a hate-based crime. How often it happens doesnt matter. The fact that its based on hate is what matters.

you believe that a law that focuses on something that does happen regularly (in my country it’s the leading cause of murder in women) should be expanded to something that happens rarely.

Yes.

Frequency isnt relevant.

And the reason is optics?

No… And I don’t understand how youre arriving at that in any way, shape, or form.

Am I misinterpreting your point?

It would seem you are completely, and I have no idea where you are misinterpreting things so wildly to suggest the reason is optics for me to even begin to clarify.

That would only be true if there were a commensurate killings based on misandry.

I would have to disagree. The quantity is irrelevant, the existence of the hate crime is all that really matters.

I can understand what they are doing here (bringing attention to the rampant mysogony), but I do think that could have been done better by having it be a hate crime law with a definition on sex/gender as the motivation, but call it out or name it to address the rampant mysogony.

But a hate crime is a hate crime, and should be treated as a hate crime regardless.

Edit: Just to say, I don’t get the impression that what I suggested is the case here, but maybe I’m misinterpreting things. Feel free to point out if it addresses hate crimes based on identity more generally, I’d be happy to hear it. Doesnt seem to be the case from the article though.

… Do you not have to deal with that already?

Thats why I switched them. And didnt give admin rights.

(I manage updates remotely)

I have ended up with a bag of food and no milk and had to go back.

I have to list, even for one item.

I’d like to know a bit more about your troubles to answer.

Do you know what desktop you were using? If so, what did you like and what didnt you like?

Where were you reentering your password all the time? Was it logging in, logging in after the screen went dark, the wallet, etc?

What sort of troubleshooting were you doing? Was it an application not working, a piece of hardware, or something else?

The reason I’m asking these questions is because most people are interacting with just the desktop GUI, so some of your issues (password) may just be configuration, the distribution won’t matter. If your troubleshooting was due to hardware, there may be a better choice.

For example, I use Debian everywhere. That said, there are times where certain pieces of software or certain pieces of hardware work better with a different distribution. On my T480, I’m using arch, mostly because of the fingerprint reader and a some things I’m building will be easier this way.

Generically speaking, it doesnt matter which distribution you use, you can do the basics on all of them. What it can come down to is familiarity, hardware, and purpose, and the guiding principles for each distribution.

… what?

Pro pend and pro pend accessories

Just because it bothered me

append before prepend.

Ah, assurance of compliance (pinky swear promises) over usability.

I once had to use a windows laptop that had to be stored in a safe when I wasn’t using it, could only use it in a room that was keyed entry (also where the safe was). But the firewall config was practically wide open, and it had direct access to the internet. I couldn’t even change it to be more secure. Ended up not connecting it to a network at all and just sneakernetting a thumb drive around so I wouldn’t risk catching blame if something got out.

Edit: Yes, a thumb drive. That wasn’t blocked either on this “hardened” system.

I’d love some say on my work computer but alas I’m a grunt.

Not a grunt, but still run my work laptop like I am one. I use it exclusively for teams, outlook, office, etc, and nothing else work related though since I can still save to our (non-MS) cloud environment thanks to rclone. Which technically meets the criteria - which has nothing to do with the fact that I wrote the criteria. Totally unexpected benefit! Didn’t plan it that way at all. Nope, it was 100% because one of the partners will only use a mac. Promise.

(I’m sorry about your laptop)

While I understand, that is what continues the problem btw. Supporting the company doing what is needed to make a switch to Linux easier is what will take away the problem, for better or worse.

I’ll also note I have regular issues Windows machines and GPUs, honestly its more of a pain in the ass to me. Specifically multi-monitor configs appearing as a single desktop - incredibly easy on Linux, while on windows I have to use Mosaic, and windows updates constantly break those configs. Among quite a few other things, but thats different territory.

I have no qualms about recommending/advocating for Linux, because I know quite well what I can and can’t do with it, as well as how to explain how to set it up to work easily. I have a lot of reservations about Windows use, because it can be such an absolute nightmare in some situations, and unlike Linux, there is no ability for me to fully take control and set things up right the first time.

“Avoiding all that bullshit” is extremely dependent on what bullshit you’re avoiding.

I was seriously considering posting it but didn’t want you to think I was being a dick about it 😀

Its mostly because of what nvidia does - the newer stuff has open source drivers, but this is a more recent thing (past year or so), but a good chunk of their libraries are still closed, their firmware is still closed, and anything not supported by the newer open source kernel modules has to use the proprietary drivers.

This is, unfortunately, outside of the control of the Linux kernel. And nvidia can be made to work just fine (I have a bunch of quadro cards for example) without dropping to the console, but that first setup to make it that way takes some knowledge. That, to me, is the big problem.

Thats also why you’ll see a lot of intel gpu’s and amd gpu’s in the linux world, while nvidia made that switch I mentioned to open on the new stuff, that was in 2024. AMD started their effort in 2015, its much more mature, and intel had open drivers for a bit over 10 years before that.

i write often and libreoffice writer is difficult to say the least, not because of lack of features but a lack of most ‘little things’ and ‘tweaks’.

I think you’re missing the fact that you are doing more ‘expert’ things than most here. The majority of the time, my wife opens a document she made once, saves as a new file (no, she’s not using templates - don’t get me started), and writes her invoice. She then PDFs it and sends it via email.

She does the same thing with Calc and a previously made blank “monthly calendar”. Opens the blank, saves for the client, enters in the days and renames the month at the top, notes what she’ll be doing for them on each day with an hour estimate, PDF and email.

That is the kind of thing most people do.

This is what I meant by my comment here.

Thats a hardware related annoyance that I’ve even seen on commercially distributed versions of Linux, and if it were set up correctly, you wouldn’t have even noticed (aside from a bunch of scrolling text during the next boot when the new kernel was loaded). I had a client where they couldn’t even get to the console of the server for this reason. Once set up correctly though, those updates have chugged away in the background… but I digress.

I’m assuming you (and your partner) have no trouble at all navigating around and using linux, it was the (poorly managed) update process that gave you headaches. I think that is a perfectly reasonable complaint.