Celebrating his contributions to the Union victory!

I do care about the Confederate thing, I grew up in the South and saw the results of the “lost cause” rhetoric and the awful narrative rewriting the Daughters of the Confederacy types did in both public consciousness and the school history books. The name of this fort is part of that.

But I think you bring up a good point, that having two Fort Braggs is bad and annoying, and this fog horn of a dog whistle is shitty for multiple reasons.

Something something velocity of money something I never took econ 101.

ROTFPML

I didn’t see most of them, but I was surprised that a local lawyer hired Charlie Berens for their ad.

OP seems to be running 8gig of ram, if that laptop is stock. I have actually run Bazzite Gnome on worse hardware (2 gigs of ram), but that was for the lulz, not because it was a good idea. Silverblue is Gnome DE, and OP seems to want a much lighter weight DE than either gnome or KDE.

IME, Debian is fairly minimal tinkering once you get the proprietary drivers worked out. Although I don’t know how Ubuntu handles updates, is it as (usually) hands off like the immutable/atomic distros?

Has someone tried to do an atomic/immutable distro with one of the lightweight DEs? Seems like there’s a niche there, although Mint might be similar enough from an end user experience standpoint that it’s not really worth the effort.