Didn’t islam have to have special religious scholars for figuring out tiny things?

At least in theory, Islam is traditionally adhered to as an all-encompassing lifestyle. As such, it’s unsurprising to find rulings on the minutia of affairs.

FWIW, deriving new religious verdicts and/or refining the old is a continuous effort as new issues/situations arise.

I feel like I remember them having to be called in to issue a special ruling through the Quran that a religious building could be entered temporarily by the police to end a siege between them and some other group.

Perhaps you are referring to issuing a so-called ‘fatwa’, which is basically understood as a religious ruling derived by an Islamic jurist on a (pressing) matter.

I was under the impression Arch was more for “hardcore” users, is that an outdated mindset (or was it ever true)?

It’s more nuanced than that.

Arch Linux, the distro Garuda Linux is derived from, is definitely not a distro that holds your hand like e.g. Linux Mint does. It (somewhat) demands you to read extensively through its excellent^[1] ArchWiki.

However, Garuda and other derivatives^[2] are opinionated takes on Arch that try to fulfill a specific goal that its respective maintainers have in mind. This can range from using Arch Linux as a base for delivering:

• a scrutinizingly optimized distro that at (the very) least inches out every other distro in performance (i.e. CachyOS)
• a distro that functions as a glorified installer^[3] for Arch. But with that, remains very close in spirit to what Arch is all about (i.e. EndeavourOS)
• a ready-to-go gaming distro (i.e. Garuda Linux)
• (and everything in between and beyond…)

(Note that the oversimplified descriptions found above don’t quite do justice to the enormous effort that is put into these projects. Furthermore, it has to be mentioned that each of these distros proud themselves on the amazing communities they’ve built.)

Finally, it goes without saying that having an Arch base continues to pose a (potential) maintenance burden^[4] with the constant stream of updates. While some of the above distros include some of the available protections by default, none claim to provide a silver bullet^[5]. Thankfully, problems ‘should’ only act up every once in a while. And (almost surely) deflecting them with a working snapshot provides an evergreen magical experience.

So, to conclude, Arch Linux as a distro definitely is more demanding than e.g. Linux Mint. However, the derivatives mentioned above definitely bridge the gap to a remarkable extent. So much so, perhaps, that you might not even notice much of a difference (besides the constant stream of updates).

What is the kernel version on your system? On both Linux Mint and Ubuntu*

Penguins-eggs to the rescue.

Your reply is much appreciated, fam! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to return right away. I thank you for your patience! Btw, I’m not native. So, if I misuse any terms/words/phrases or whatnot; my apologies. Usually, I put in some significant effort to alleviate this. Sadly, I didn’t quite have the chance to do so this time. Thank you for your understanding!

Firstly, I’m glad we can have a civil discourse on this topic rather than resorting to personal attacks and namecalling. I also appreciate the fact that you seem like someone who actually wants to get to the truth rather than defending your stance no matter what.

Thanks fam for the compliments! Your engagement is (I think) (at least) equally commendable!

You’re right. The people in the video are in fact publicly celebrating the 9/11 attacks which took the lives of thousands of innocent people. As you can see, it’s not just grown ass men who are celebrating, but children and women too. If this is the level of hatred they have towards the United States, do I really need to explain how severe their hatred for Israel would be?

Btw, I understood the implied context of the footage. But, it would be intellectually dishonest if I didn’t take into account the framing at hand. Cuz, if we were to be very critical of the footage itself (so without AP’s provided text as guidance), then there’s nothing explicitly there that connects those celebrations to the 9/11 killings; no burning of American flags or anything that would imply it. Granted, I assume neither of us speak Arabic. So that doesn’t help either 😅.

Just to be clear, I’m well aware that this story is pretty much uncontested^[1]. So I’m not actually disputing it. But, with the benefit of hindsight^[2], it’s hard to completely deny any ulterior motives for broadcasting said celebrations.

And to push back: is it sociologically-speaking strange for them to be glad that the biggest support of their rivals has received a retribution?

That’s an easy question to answer. There would be one country and it would be called Palestine.

History has indeed taught us that that^[3]’s a pretty likely outcome. But, I was also curious to hear your take on the other question. Namely, “What would become of the Israeli people?”.

But they will be celebrating.

Likely indeed.

And they will want the whole world to see them celebrating. That’s for sure.

For this, I’m not so sure. But it could be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphinarium_discotheque_bombing#Aftermath

Ah, another celebration. I’m starting to notice a pattern :P .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWOw7YI7vzo

Another one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xPNTbtUHVc

This video I didn’t pay a lot of attention to as the media outlet didn’t seem to be as reliable as I’d like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-wyW-7iJwU

I think I got the message by now :P .

Again I want to be very clear that I’m not an Israeli sympathizer. I’m just trying to make a point that the Palestinians aren’t the saints that the liberals (btw I’m a liberal myself) often portray them to be.

If sainthood is achieved through suffering alone, then I’d argue they would make a good chance. But yeah, I get where you’re hinting at.

While that’s a good read for someone more technical

I would perhaps put more importance to eagerness to learn. But (I think) I understand where you’re hinting at.

the distro chooser brings it to people of lower technical prowess.

While the distrochooser definitely has a lower entry barrier, I’d argue that if one isn’t willing to read the above guide, then they might as well roll a die and choose between Bazzite, Fedora, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, TUXEDO OS and Zorin OS accordingly.

While your endorsement is definitely well-intentioned, I’m unsure if it correctly reflects the project’s health^[1]. I’d argue we’ve got (a lot) better resources on the fediverse. Like, e.g. this excellent guide: Understanding Linux and choosing your first Linux distro, v2.0

Thank you for providing that video!

I hadn’t seen it before, and I can definitely understand why its content is disturbing.

Granted, as I’m unable to understand the context beyond what AP themselves have provided, I’ll (for the sake of the argument) accept this as Palestinians celebrating an attack on the US.

Then, my initial intention was to dissect the argument and explain why I can’t agree with your extrapolation^[1]. However, to my surprise, your extrapolation might not be as far-fetched as I initially thought 😅. But, this ultimately depends on what you mean precisely. So, please allow me to ask further clarifications:

• With “Israel would simply not exist on the map today.”, what do you mean exactly? Like, what would come in its place? What would become of the Israeli people?
• With “And the Palestinians would be openly celebrating over the dead bodies of Israeli people.”, do you mean something similar like we see on the footage? Or something more grandiose? (And perhaps more sinister?)

Let me know if you still aren’t convinced.

Please allow me to take you up on that offer 😜.

But if Palestine had the kind of military backing Israel does, Israel would simply not exist on the map today. And the Palestinians would be openly celebrating over the dead bodies of Israeli people.

What is this based on? Like, could you (by any means) back up this claim?

It has been my pleasure! Hope it’ll work out for ya!

With no Adobe CC on Linux

How’s this?

I do think uBlue is downstream

It’s indeed downstream~ish. But perhaps just different enough to actually make a meaningful change.

I’m pretty clueless at that point. Never seen something like it. Apologies for not actually being able to help out. Hopefully it will be resolved soon, though.

This is probably not the advice you’d like to hear, but I wonder if rebasing to uBlue’s Kinoite would make any difference. Regardless, wish you the best!

No Nvidia, just intel integrated graphics. Its a dell ispiron 7500.

Yeah, that shouldn’t cause any pecularities.

LayeredPackages: alacritty bat btop distrobox fish flatpak-builder kpeoplevcard light lsd mako neovim parallel python3-neovim shellcheck swaybg swayfx swayidle swaylock syncthing tailscale tmux virt-manager waybar wlogout wlsunset wofi

Hmm…, nothing too outrageous, I think; still, consider rpm-ostree reset to at least rule out the possibility that any of the layered packages are to be blamed. If you’re afraid of losing your working deployment, ensure to evoke the sudo ostree admin pin 1 command to pin it. (ASSUMING THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO DEPLOYMENTS WHEN YOU DO THIS). After you’ve done the pinning, ensure that you pinned the correct one by checking this with rpm-ostree status; the deployment you wish to pin should state the fact that it’s pinned.

journalctl shows nothing. That’s what I meant by no logs, I should have been clearer. It’s not even getting that far. It’s like it’s stuck in grub, but only when I try the new kernel.

Perhaps I had to be more clear and explicit, boot twice:

• first, into the now broken deployment, wait until the time your system should have booted otherwise. Then, hard reset.
• secondly, to your still working deployment, then evoke the journalctl -b -1 command. This should, unless something is wrong with how systemd is setup on your system, show you the logs of the previous boot. You could even compare it with your current boot (which can be accessed with journal -b) and see where it diverges, though looking at the logs of the corrupt boot sequence should suffice.

The only deviation from the vanilla kargs have been for troubleshooting this and I did it in the grub editor so they aren’t persistent. I tried removing rhgb changed quiet to verbose and debug and loglevel=7 just to see if anything would happen. It still just hangs

Aight. Thank you for putting in the work so we can rule that out!

Anybody else experienced something similar?

FWIW, I just booted my laptop that runs a Fedora Atomic derivative -secureblue to be precise*- and updated to the 6.14.5-300 kernel. Afterwards, I rebooted and found a still functional system. Just so you know; GNOME is installed on my system instead of KDE Plasma, but I don’t think it would have mattered.

Regardless, your issue remains and is rather peculiar. Uhmm…, I’m just thinking out loud at this point, but have you considered the following:

• Is this a system with Nvidia? If so, could it be somehow related?
• How ‘pristine’ is your system? Have you layered a bunch of packages? If so, do you think the issue would persist after a rpm-ostree reset?
• Beyond layering, I have experienced that kernel arguments could cause issues down the line. So, have you tinkered with any of that? If so, do you think the issue would persist if you would remove all user-added kernel arguments?

Aside from the above, I don’t really know what would cause an issue as such.

Or know of a way I can get some more info out of the system

Consider accessing systemd’s journaling with journalctl. This should be (easily) accessible on a successfully booted system. In your case, that would be your working deployment.

To clarify, this is just my list that I shared in the hope that others would follow suit 😅. (Which hasn’t been successful so far…) Consider posting yours 😉!