Alma is actually a real community distro. They deserve so much more support than Rocky does.

There is not much criticism of Red Hat? What? In what universe? I never see the name Red Hat absent the army of detractors they attract.

I do not like being accused of attacking Manjaro but since you asked….

1. the project has had lots of governance and quality problems. Maybe those are all in the past. Maybe.

2. By design, Manjaro is not compatible with the Arch repos or the AUR. One of the biggest problems is that they hold their software back a few weeks. In theory this is for quality (not my experience). Regardless, many people have had problems, especially with the AUR. I am one. Others say they have not. Some even claim the rest of us have not either. Manajaro has “brought down” AUR itself (compared to a DDOS attack but really just quality again).

I used Manjaro for over 2 years and would never touch it again. And if what you want is an Arch based distro with an easy install, there is EOS. I have used EndeavousOS for I think maybe 5 years and I love it. Recently I have moved to Chimera Linux, which is not for everyone (it is awesome but I am not recommending it). It is not because of anything wrong with EOS.

EndeavourOS. The default desktop is KDE these days.

Easy to install.

Attractive desktops out of the box. KDE is the default. A few nice quality of life utilities.

It uses the Arch repos and kernel. The AUR (yay) is installed out-of-the-box. So, the biggest package selection in the Linux world. Always up-to-date. Updates fast.

Great community in the EOS forums. Some of the best Linux docs on the web in the Arch wiki. The Arch wiki is an amazing resource for learning.

Very stable. Breakages are rare, especially if you use an LTS kernel. The current LTS kernel is the same one that Debian 13 will release with “soon”. So, not exactly ancient.

Biggest “downside” is that there is no GUI software installer out-of-the-box.

If that is really a deal-breaker, just install one like pamac or octopi. “yay -S octopi” should do it.

Or install a menu driven text based package manager like pacseek. “yay -S pacseek”

Or just take a few minutes to learn how to use pacman or yay at the command-line. You said you wanted to learn.

You can think of Docker and Podman as an almost zero overhead (CPU and RAM) way of running one distribution on another. So, you can run an application in Docker that expects to be running on a different distro from what you use (say Ubuntu Jenkins but actually running on Debian). The environment that the applications run in are called “containers”. Mostly they contain the filesystem layout and application libraries that the app expects.

Docker itself is designed to sandbox the application away from your host system. A related technology, Distrobox, uses the same containers but in a way that the applications know they are running on your system with full access to your display manager and home directory.

I run an Arch Distrobox on every distro that I use. This allows me full access to all the Arch repos and the AUR even on other distros ( eg. Alpine, Chinese Linux, or Debian).

Flatpak also uses containers and so you can consider Distrobox as a Flatpak alternative. Flatpak containers are not the same as those that Docker uses but they rely on the same underlying Linux kernel features to do what they do. In Flatpak, you are essentially running the Freedesktop distro on top of your host distro (so much like Distrobox with the guest distro chosen for you).

How many potential military men are there in Russia?

140 million people? Half male? Half of that the right age? 70% of that military capable? What are we at? 25 million?

Minus the million he has burned so far I guess.

How quickly or effectively could those 24 million be mobilized?

Remember too that pulling these men into the military reduces Russia’s industrial output which also has military consequences.

How big is the Russian military right now? 1.5 million active and maybe a million contract? That allows them to deploy how many in theatre (as opposed to defence and operations at home)? 500,000 maybe?

Can Putin take Europe with a pool of 20 million men where maybe 20% that number are active at a time? He seems to be having quite a time taking Ukraine.

The Russian population gets older every day. There is an excellent argument to be made that Putin attacked when he did because his draft pool will be way too small in 10 years. By that logic, unless Putin wins convincingly in Ukraine soon, it will be generations before he has a large enough army to raise any credible challenge to Europe.

Equipment wise, I do not think they are even keeping inventory constant. The number of planes, tanks, ships, and missiles goes down every day. They are maybe increasing their capability with drones.

Overall, Russia will be older, smaller, poorer, and less well equipped in 4 years.

Defeating Russia in Ukraine means taking Russia off the board for the foreseeable future (nukes aside).

How many potential military men are there in Russia?

140 million people? Half male? Half of that the right age? 70% of that military capable? What are we at? 25 million?

Minus the million he has burned so far I guess.

How quickly or effectively could those 24 million be mobilized?

Remember too that pulling these men into the military reduces Russia’s industrial output which also has military consequences.

How big is the Russian military right now? 1.5 million active and maybe a million contract? That allows them to deploy how many in theatre (as opposed to defence and operations at home)? 500,000 maybe?

Can Putin take Europe with a pool of 20 million men where maybe 20% that number are active at a time? He seems to be having quite a time taking Ukraine.

The Russian population gets older every day. There is an excellent argument to be made that Putin attacked when he did because his draft pool will be way too small in 10 years. By that logic, unless Putin wins convincingly in Ukraine soon, it will be generations before he has a large enough army to raise any credible challenge to Europe.

Equipment wise, I do not think they are even keeping inventory constant. The number of planes, tanks, ships, and missiles goes down every day. They are maybe increasing their capability with drones.

Overall, Russia will be older, smaller, poorer, and less well equipped in 4 years.

Defeating Russia in Ukraine means taking Russia off the board for the foreseeable future (nukes aside).

For sure

Services like stability, testing, compatibility, security, certification, and documentation?

I am not sure how you arrived at “none” from your second sentence. The second sentence is exactly my point.

Alternatively then, can I just use the Microsoft source code and claim that I got it from AI? That seems to be your point here.

I did misunderstand. Thank you.

I guess that is up to those other places