Would not advise Debian to a new user. Old packages and difficulties installing non free software may frustrate people.

I did use Debian as my daily driver and I have it in a few servers, it is a very good system. But to the common user stability is not the priority which should prevail over everything else.

The axis does start at 0. The graph does show slow advance on part of Russia, but also shows no advance on part of Ukraine since 2022. The graph shows about 20% of the country in currently occupied, which is 1/5th and it is not a negligible amount.

This graph depicts the war objective of Ukraine, which is freeing all its occupied territories. Progress over that objective has not been achieved in a long while. The graph does not depict the Russian war objective (at least the declared one) of conquering Donetsk and Luhansk. Providing a graph of that may be more informative regarding the war progresses of Russia.

It would also be important to judge whether amount of occupied territory is actually significant in this war. I don’t think it matters too much, as it is not parameter that will make Ukraine stop fighting unless Russia conquers the totality of it. But Russia does not appear to be going for full occupation, nor to be able to do it. You could play with many other parameters that seem more important for this war: industrial capacity, arms reserves, man reserves, etc.

These graphs are anyway just part of the story and can be interpreted in many ways.

Assuming Ukraine has strong support and with time will be able to repeal attacks -> Russia is too slow in conquering and the war will turn tides at a certain point. Assuming Russia has strength to keep fighting in these conditions indefinitely -> Russia will slowly but surely conquer the entirety of Ukraine. Assuming some kind of pact will be made soon -> Russia has strong diplomatic powers as it controls a large part of Ukraine and most of its objectives.

Graphs in general are much more readable when you trim them to the actual area where there is data. Do you really need perspective in a scale which goes from 0 to 100? Is 20% not clear enough?

I did have troubles passing the Anubis check from time to time. It does not offer an alternative way to prove you’re not a bot and locks you out of the website completely.

Ahaha, yes video call Is always a pain in the butt for some reason. I now run fedora (but still only do major upgrades on a Saturday morning).

I don’t know, at work we use Microsoft teams, often I get called into meet, zoom and others. The best working one to me is jitsy, that’s not to say it works flawlessly.

I don’t know, sometimes they work on Firefox, sometimes they work on Chrome. Sometimes they do not work and I have to use the phone. Sometimes headphones microphone does not work. Sometimes headphones microphone works but audio goes through speaker and not headphones.

I don’t know, I gave up attempting to fix all these things. Most of the times it’s more than one person in the call and we end up just joining together at the computer that works first. To be fair, my colleagues using windows are not free from these problems.

Very good explanation.

Why do you use that letter rather than th?

One time I did not update an arch system for something like 6 months… You can’t immagine the troubles I needed to go through to get it into a working state.

I used arch extensively. I still have it in a laptop I switch on from time to time. I stopped running it mostly because it is rolling release. I didn’t get many problems, but sometimes you do and sometimes you have to spend an hour figuring out what the problem is and how to fix it. I don’t want to wake up in the morning with an important video call set up and be unable to participate because the pipe wire config file has been corrupted during update.

Other than that, arch is a good system. But I’d rather keep it on hardware I know I can be without for a day or two if the case comes up.

Yes, I prefer them to wait for releases. Often those releases don’t really have such changes that are fundamental to my workflow but at times do have the potential to disrupt it. On my workstation I always wait a while before updating anyway, as I did experience problems upgrading from time to time.