when confronted with details without mentioning the scary words socialism or communism most people are overwhelmingly in favour of it. That’s why the constant strawmen based fighting between tankies and liberals is so tiring. Instead of talking about facts and discussing the pros and cons of how to achieve the shared goals they constantly throw shit at each other

In a ship of theseus kind of way i guess you can turn almost anything into anything else :p

Are you bored? Did you just build a strawman version of your own community to argue about something that is trivially easy to answer for everyone in this community? I am seriously confused. I have never ever heard anyone say that you could turn any distro into any other. That is just obviously not true. And every single question on your bullet point list is equally easy to answer.

When people say that it doesn’t matter which distro you use what they obviously mean is that the desktop environment has the way more immediate and tangible impact on the user experience. So as long as the newcomer choses one of the many distros that have an intuitive installer (so obviously not Arch), are reasonably up to date, have a broad software package repository, and come with one of the major environments pre installed, it really does not matter that much.

not really working here in germany, no. Even though things like, e.g. health care and public transport aren’t as completely broken as in the US, they are still pretty broken and there is no incentive to fix it thanks precisely to the interests of capitalism.

turns out the term “late-stage capitalism” is over a hundred years old . It is difficult to argue that it has been working before that.