Strawberry, strawberry@sh.itjust.works

Whenever I need a bootable USB I always go for ventoy, much easier to just copy over the image.

That said, if you’re having a lot of trouble it might be something else, say a bad USB, port or image. I’ve had devices that can’t recognise particular usb sticks or from a particular port for no apparently reason. Sometimes its just cursed.

Thanks, that might explain the jank I got when spinning it up yesterday…I’ll be back on calibre web or trying another option over the weekend.

yes! Larry for prime minister!

It had to be done.

I personally like the one where they hear about linux without gnu and just die. Very enjoyable. I expect a good continuation on gnu hurd & gnu without linux eventually.

Gnu Taler seems really interesting, if the trial in Switzerland goes well it might have a chance. I’m still hopeful we can have nice things.

EU Regulations are directly applicable to all member states, so its not needed to transpose those into domestic law for them to be used. Some countries’ constitutional setup mess with this(like the uk eh pre-brexit I guess), but in general regulations are as important if not more than domestic law.

Directives can be directly used in domestic courts but only under certain conditions. The defendant/respondant needs to be a public body and the transposition deadline must have passed. Its basicly ‘you failed to implement it in time — tough’. Also if they’re not implemented correctly. But in general yes, they’re only instructions for the members to pass domestic legislation.

I think even on a technicality both are law. Sorry if this was a bit padantic.

oh and yes I’m not aware of any EU legislation on admissibility of evidence. But, not really my area :/ I think there have been proposals for cross-border stuff but can’t remember what became of that. If you know any in force i’d be interested in reading that? thanks

If you want something that looks different you wanna find a different desktop environment(DE), most of them are avalible on most distros. I’d pick a distro then a DE that they offer. You could try these DEs you haven’t already tested: * Cosmic, think tilling + gnome-like interface. It softens the learning curve for a tilling WM a lot if you’ve got other options. Fedora has a spin with this in if you liked fedora. * Budgie but can be quite similar to others * MXLinux with Fluxbox could be an interesting choice, its usually used on low end devices but its pretty snappy on anything else. Or Fluxbox on any other distro but MX is the only thing I can think of with it as an install option. * If you don’t mind something older, you could look at CDE or NsCDE, although I can’t remember how involved the install process is.

Other than that, your options for non-tranditional desktop environments are probably just other tilling ones(i3, hyprland, ect) or scrolling(like niri). Or customising one of the others, KDE can be very flexible for that. You’ve gone through a lot of the main ones.

As for distros, there’s a lot, most will have the same set of desktop environments though. So, the same look and feel one you get past the install and package management etc…

If you don’t mind going outside linux land, haiku can be fun. Completely different OS though…