His thinkpad is 4GB ram and processesor is less than half as good as yours. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/809vs5206/Intel-i5-2520M-vs-Intel-N95

Note that I’m not that knowledgable. That’s an decent laptop from 2011. You could run cinnamon, but I think you want MATE or even XFCE. You can install cinnamon and if you want more performance then switch to MATE. Cinnamon to MATE is a big improvement, MATE to XFCE a little more. Switching again may sound insane but most of the work is in backing everything up and then setting up programs, so you can try cinnamon for a week or two (without perfecting everything) and see if you want a lighter OS. Don’t worry it’s really easy the second time once you know how to do it (and mint has all the verification stuff built in).

(PS The other guys celeron is actually better.)

I love messages that start with snark.

You do realize that people are individuals, right?

Yeah there are some intellectuals, and some that understand their oaths, but they’re far outnumbered by the people that joined the military because they had no options. And people that watch Fox 24/7 generationally who know a libtard when they see them and hate them so much and know better than their nerdy superior.

Last actual point: Don’t confuse officer command with the masses of soldiers that have watched Fox 24/7. The officers may know and may not follow, but many soldiers (not all, because why do I think I have to put in all the caveats) are lets just say entirely different. Like if you think it’s only grandparents being swayed by Fox then I have no words. Ok I’m out.

“It is insurrection, plainly, directly, without question,” Miller later told Fox News. “It’s a general call for rebellion from the CIA and the armed services of the United States by Democrat lawmakers, saying that you have not only the right, but the duty and the obligation to defy orders of the commander-in-chief that those who carry weapons in America’s name should defy their chain of command and engage in open acts of insurrection.”

It’s a short article that’s mostly his quotes, worth the read.

to know you’re not supposed to open up on a crowd of fuckin kids.

Unfortunately Fox has been screaming that the kids/Dems are traitors for 20 years now. And that Patriots something something. I don’t think a little ceremony is going to undo decades of brainwashing to hate libs.

Mint. Cinnamon is great. MATE if you have a less powerful computer. XFCE for potatoes.

it can be absolute pain for those expecting things to just work

Linux Mint just worked.

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

The verification stuff is a pain downloading files and programs, but you’ll get through it.

Vancouver Island or Newfoundland or pei?

Not like a console says not a loss leader to me.

… Duck… Goose.

Btw I heard an idea that everyone is fighting for Charlie Kirk’s followers: Carlson, Shapiro, Fuentes, etc. That’s why there’s so many weird interviews and headlines as they try to get the follower’s attention. Kinda makes sense.

Trusted? Kirk didn’t question the war itself?

I read somewhere that people like conspiracy theories because it gives them a sense that they know secret information that others don’t know.

Weijia Jiang of CBS News asked: “Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein’s house with a victim?”

Leavitt ducked and lobbed back a double negative: “These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.”

She went on: “And what President Trump has always said is that he was from Palm Beach and so was Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a paedophile and he was a creep.”

…

“This administration has done more than any, and it just shows how this is truly a manufactured hoax by the Democrat party, for now they’re talking about it all of a sudden because President Trump is in the Oval Office,” she said, a note of indignation rising in her voice. “But when Joe Biden was sitting in there, the Democrats never brought this up. This wasn’t an issue that they cared about because they actually don’t care about the victims in these cases.”

Edit: Video 3:23 min https://youtu.be/NKFf2dUF2JU

I’ll bet you he’ll say “but the states won’t honor them”.

Wow you just stalked through a week’s worth of comments. Your lack of introspection is astounding.

They think the poor are poor because they didn’t work hard enough. They think the sick are sick because they didn’t work hard enough to get medical care. They think elderly that can’t take care of themselves didn’t work hard enough for their retirement. See everyone can be rich if they just worked. It worked for them (cough) so obviously everyone else didn’t work hard enough.

Even then they want private police.

Conservatives think everyone using services is a welfare queen by definition. So their solution is to kick people off, so that they’re motivated to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, because then they’ll be rich just like them, then everyone will be richer because they don’t have to pay taxes, etc. To conservatives any government action is by definition bad and evil.