Highly skilled people want to become farmers but can’t afford it.
Capitalism has come full circle.

I really don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here.
They don’t vandalize the property of private citizens.
Their critics say they should (spray paint private jets instead of rocks).

This is more like “what if someone vandalized the scenic rock formation I can see from my bedroom window”.
And if they spray painted a message about fightng the climate catastrophy on it, I’d love it.

I don’t have a car.
And took a job that pays less than other offers, cause it’s within bicycle distance from my home, which I chose cause it’s in a bike-friendly area.
I know the impact is low, but at least I’m not part of the problem. I don’t think I could cut down on my CO2 any more while still living in society.

No, this is Loss.

And ignored

Apparently everyone still doesn’t get how serious it is if they get worked up over paint on Stonehenge more than over the climate catastrophy.

One of my best friends in elementary school was a son of Turkish immigrants.
His parents didn’t speak any German, so naturally he had serious issues with the language, too.
This held him back in school, which lead to him getting sent to the lowest tier of secondary school.
(We have 3 tiers in Germany. The highest one (Gymnasium) qualifies you for university, the middle one (Realschule) used to qualify you for highly-skilled work that doesn’t require university, and the lowest one (Hauptschule) for the trades. Nowadays, even trades jobs scoff at the middle tier, and the lowest tier is basically a direct route to a life of shit jobs or unemployment.)
But just by hanging out with him as a friend, I taught him German, how to use and fix computers, showed him the world of books, and connected him to German society better. I’m not trying to brag, he was a very bright kid and it wasn’t like I was doing this as welfare, he was just a good friend and we shared what we liked with each other.

25 years later we met again by accident. He actually recognized me when he saw me on the street in a different city.
By then he had switched from Hauptschule to Realschule, went on to get his qualification for university, studied economics, created his own company in the IT sector, and had 6 employees. And he told me that my friendship was what kept him out of the wrong circles. On the old computer I had given him (which my parents had replaced) he had taught himself how to use office programs, so he was the only one in the family who could do the taxes, which taught him about finances.
At the time I met him again I was actually unemployed and working odd manual labor jobs under the table, after failing my university education twice due to depression.
He connected me to some contacts he had, which landed me an IT support job, and now I have a pretty good career as a sysadmin.

Some of the people I communicated with were Majors.

It’s a diatom (type of algae) called Pseudo-nitzschia, they produce neurotoxins and there’s more of them now.

IMO It’s mostly about the mindset.
If you realize that you can basically do anything on any general purpose distro because they’re all just distributions of the available Linux-compatible software, you’re not a noob anymore.
The effort to achieve what you want can be higher on some and zero on others (if that thing already happens to be pre-installed and configured to your liking).
But if you’ve decided on a distro you like, you always have ways of accessing the software that’s missing out of the box.

I’d say, you’re not a noob anymore if you know basic command line best practices (like not copy/pasting commands with “sudo” in front off the internet unless you know what they do), can parse a man page, and know how to find and install software that’s missing in your distro’s repos.
That being said, it’s perfectly possible to run Linux without using the command line at all, nowadays.

Right off the bat, the url tells me that whatever you linked lumps in cats and dogs.
Cats absolutely, positively can’t be fed a vegan diet, they’re true carnivores.
Dogs are omnivores, though. They can and often do eat vegetables willingly.

German take: Parking on the side of the road and on sidewalks should just be banned.
Its legality is based on a single court case from the 1950’s where a judge decided that it should be a legal use of public space, because it’s necessary and useful for motorizing the country. The justfication is obsolete. It’s not enshrined in any laws. The traffic law specifically forbids it, with exceptions.
Yet it’s practiced everywhere and even where parked cars block sidewalks, police simply don’t enforce the law.

“But where should I park?”
You should have thought of that before buying a car.

“But what about rural areas where you need a car to live?”
No problem here, just park it on your turnip field.

Your parents match you, an Imam marries you, then the Emir impregnates the wife.

There isn’t an ISO for Linux Mint with Xfce.
What I would try:

• Boot the normal ISO
• open a terminal instead of starting the installation
• enter sudo live-installer-expert-mode

It should boot the Debian expert installer, which lets you choose what DE you want to install. I haven’t tested this on LMDE, though.

Otherwise, install LMDE normally. Then do sudo apt install xfce4 and sudo apt purge cinnamon* muffin* nemo*.

I love the fact that the term Spam for unwanted emails comes from the Monty Python skit.

Not to be confused with MAMIL, Middle-Aged Men In Lycra

I wasn’t aware it paid that well.

Don’t use FreeBSD on a notebook.
Unless you can live without energy management, suspend, bluetooth, function keys and usable wifi speeds out of the box.

Is there any reason not to use Debian when you’re already happy with it on your main rig?

You’re talking about declarative systems like Nix. Immutable just means that the root filesystem is read-only. You can install programs as Flatpaks or inside a container (toolbox on Silverblue).