Centuries of cultures and nations mixing and colliding resulted in pasta. Pasta is more international than Italian.

Yes. There are distros such as LinuxMint Cinnamon Edition that allow doing everything from the GUI.

The issue is when searching for answers most will provide a solution using the terminal, even when it is doable using the GUI.

I have stuck with LinuxMint since 2018 or so. None of the surprises I previously had with Ubuntu despite it being Ubuntu based.

What is your hardware setup and are you using non-free drivers?

How can I find out if it supports ext4? if it does I might install it tonight. I have been waiting for Hurd for over a decade.

PS2 game didn’t start, disc read error

Installing additional DEs should be made more straightforward. I’m comfortable using the terminal but I don’t think many know that you can have multiple installed at the same time and can switch between them at login.

instead of just a european company over a US one

even this is an improvement

Get a usb drive and try out different distros before committing. With Linux you can make use of a feature called LiveUSB which allows you to boot from USB a full usable operating system without changing anything in your filesystem.

The steps here should work for any distro not just Ubuntu. https://documentation.ubuntu.com/desktop/en/latest/how-to/create-a-bootable-usb-stick/

Once created, restart your mac and hold alt when you hear the chime and select the USB drive from the boot screen. Spend sometime in the new OS, get a feel for it, and if you like it you can install, if not, restart and you will be back in macOS as if nothing happened.

I predict that 2028 will be a repeat of 2024 since they are all bought and paid for by AIPAC

All of it is stolen

If they [Noah Smith] applied the same chronological metric to the US none of it would be the US which is the reality OP showcased but somehow they are never consistent.

Yellow Peril has defined the West for centuries. It is so ingrained and normalized that most aren’t aware of their own racism.

If not China it is Russia, if not Russia it is Qatar, if not Qatar it is Saudi Arabia. The US is never at fault and merely the victim of foreign meddling.

The funny-sad thing about it is that they don’t acknowledge the existence of people with legitimate grievances against the West.

They were okay with fascism directed at others

It is theirs. If you support Taiwanese separatism then you should be consistent and support all separatist movements. There’s plenty in Europe you should support them.

You clearly don’t know. I suggest you read about France’s parasitic relationship to Central and Western Africa that continues to this day, it even controls the issuance of the currency for eight West African nations and six Central African nations. Nothing China does even in your imagined worst case scenario comes close. And that’s just France.

The World isn’t the West. China is an enemy of choice for the West due to racism, otherwise it poses no threat.

Just that trumps regime doing the same thing is more accepted here.

No, it is not accepted here.

Are you suggesting that the situation would be better if a different US president was in place at that time?

No, and that’s the point everyone here is trying to make. Both parties are the same except for rhetoric and optics.

The genocide in Gaza was enabled by the Biden administration and continues with Trump. Deceptive of you to pretend that the Democratic Party is better on this. The Biden administration vetoed ceasefire multiple times at the UN.