DandomRude

I think it’s fair to say that pretty much all the dystopian visions of the future from literature and films have now become reality. Brave new world…

True. Unfortunately, however, the Nazi party AfD is quite strong in Germany, whose success is largely due to the fact that the same US corporations that enabled openly fascist candidates to win elections in the US also control the (social) media landscape in Germany.

If we want to preserve our democracy, I believe there is no way around finally putting a stop to the influence that mentally ill billionaires have on public opinion.

Otherwise, Germany will probably end up in a similar situation to the US: With a government made up of corrupt puppets whose Nazi ideology essentially serves to conceal the fact that they are pursuing disastrous, neo-capitalist policies that are exclusively in the interests of the top one percent.

I just installed Ubuntu on my mom’s laptop. I also considered Mint, but Ubuntu seems to me to be the distribution with the least risk of any major issues.

Either way, the point was to finally get away from Windows, especially since my mom doesn’t use any applications for which there isn’t a reliable Linux alternative anyway.

Donations to LibreOffice and so on have also been transferred - in the amount of the license costs for Windows 11 and MS Office for now.