I think it's a bit more frankensystem than you're realizing. Mint does have additional repos (to facilitate distribution of cinnamon, its dependencies, and additional custom software) and package management tools (namely their updater).
When you start adding major things outside of their expectations (like a completely different desktop that they don't support) you're asking for trouble. Especially if you outright start removing GTK based stuff because Mint's software is based on GTK.
Mint even used to offer KDE but they stopped doing that to focus on other stuff (presumably to focus on GTK).
AfaIk, Linux Mint delivers it's own version of apt, specifically some scripts interacting with apt, which does not default to Snap packages for e.g. Firefox, Kubuntu doesn't (can't). Basically, you could also install Kubuntu 24.04 and transform it to Mint 22 with KDE e.g. to have Mint-like behaviour of apt.
Yeah, the snap stuff is annoying. Still ... using a distro with packages it just so happens to inherit from its upstream distro, that it doesn't really maintain ... that's sketchy.
Mint has the reputation of being a beginner friendly distribution, Debian doesn't (not isn't).
If one uses Mint and does want to use another DE without reinstalling the OS, after all why not?
Well, I wouldn't describe what's in that article as being more beginner friend than Debian 😅 Especially not the potential impacts on stability guarantees and upgrade quality.
In theory you could use Telegram X and reimplement the tdlib API to create such a client. It wouldn't be the main Telegram Android app, but Telegram X is in someways even nicer.
If you don't strictly speaking need XMPP, you might want to checkout Jami which is a peer-to-peer based chat app with a fairly polished UI. It still definitely feels like beta software at times though, so more of a "be aware of it and check in on it" than "actively use this for all of your chats" sort of thing.
Is this advisable? Linux Mint (AFAIK) doesn't do any special work on the Ubuntu KDE packages; I mean, at that point why not use Kubuntu or Debian itself?
I don't like this perspective ... you're effectively punishing honesty about uncertainty which is almost certainly why so many politician themselves pretend to have super powers, perfect foresight, control, and what not.
Like, can we just have a discussion accepting that op acknowledge they don't know everything? ... because nobody knows everything.
It's assigned proportionally but each state gets a few extra votes to give smaller states more weight.
Originally, states would then award these proportionally, but some state got "smart" and realized that if they gave all their votes to the most popular candidate they'd get more attention ... other states soon followed suite and Madison went and died before he could fix this abuse of the system (which bothered him).
So, Mastodon is working on a communities feature. I think having Mastodon and Lemmy communities have interop (along with great interop between the "same community" on two different instances) would be the superior option.
As an example, if someone posted or tooted the same link to several communities I'm following, I should be able to see all of the comments aggregated/tab between the community posts and responses. In other words, it should aggregate a view of all the different discussions about that link for all the communities I'm subscribed to and/or that my instance knows about.
People say time and distractions and whatever else ... but the only advice that ever really helped me was a line from some character on a TV show I don't even remember:
"In my experience, to move on, you've actually got to move on."
In other words... Go meet new people, get a new crush, find the greener pasture.
That seems silly to me. Just because someone that has chickenpox hasn't been formally diagnosed as having chickenpox, that doesn't mean they don't actually have chickenpox.
Maybe none of these folks are truly suffering from mental illness, but what would that mean? That they're untreatable? That can't be right. So then what are they afflicted with?
It seems like they're trying to draw a line between clinical "serious" mental illness like schizophrenia and what's happening with mass shooters ... but I don't think folks that are saying "mass shooters are mentally ill" mean things like schizophrenia.
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