I have never had a problem with LMDE. My mother has been using it for about a year now. I used to have to come solve Windows problems for her a couple times a year but she had never asked me for any help with LMDE.

Cinnamon is not a “fork” of GNOME. MATE is a fork of GNOME as MATE started from GNOME source code.

Cinnamon was a reaction to GNOME 3. But Cinnamon was written from scratch to reflect a more traditional desktop metaphor. It was not created from existing GNOME code.

In the days of GTK 3, Cinnamon shipped quite a few of the default GNOME apps. Later, when GTK4/ libadwaita appeared, Cinnamon stayed with GTK3 and formed the XApps project which did fork many GNOME apps to stay on GTK3. XApps was meant to be a cross-desktop project serving all the GTK desktop environments.

These days, Cinnamon is trying to fork libadwaita to make GTK4 apps look better on their desktop.

In general, Cinnamon is fairly conservative. They are the last major desktop environment to default to X11 for example (though you will disagree with that view if you count XFCE as one of the major DEs).

Where do you think the batteries come ft now?

Bingo

Is this honestly how simplistically you see the world? You think that is analogous to what people are saying? Amazing.

This is already absolutely happening. The entire world is gravitating away from the US and towards China. Countries that were very cautious about China are embracing them with open arms.

The world order is not about “good” and “bad”. It is “better” and “worse”. The US is now worse. And I do not think they believe the rest of us have options.

They don’t have the cards.

There is no continent called America.

However, there is a country that hundreds of millions of people identify as “America”.

Be smarter.

I am from BC. Sure not every Canadian is like that but this person totally exists.

Ya, and Europe is not a continent. What a super intelligent position to take.

There is no “America” by your definition. There are 800 million people in “the Americas”. Half of them refer to their county as simply “America”. Like 500 times a day. At least 100 million of the rest also use this label for the USA as does a big chunk of the world. When Churchill said, “You can always count of the Americans to do the right thing but too late”, was he talking about Chile or Canada?

I would say the “United States” but then some moron will point out that this could mean the United States of Mexico as if just saying “United States” or “America” is confusing anybody. Does the US National Guard protect Mexico? Cuba or Belize? The US Marines?

Do you think “America, fuck ya” is something people from Kentucky say to celebrate Honduras? Do you think “America the beautiful” is a song about Peru? Do you think the “American National Anthem” is pro Mexico?

Do you think “American football” is what they play in Brazil? Because they sure don’t play it in Canada.

And the 7,000,000,000,000 YouTube videos about “the American President”, who elected him?

It is hard for me to believe that somebody thought this would seem like a smart thing to say.

You don’t like to be publicly respected for your informed opinions?

Why not?

Everybody knows what you are saying. What percentage would you estimate are impressed?

I would support this humanitarian effort.

So, if I wrote an AI preface to somebody else’s book, they lose their copyright?

Seems very unlikely. Can you cite any case law for this?