He's a self-described democratic socialist, while being a social democrat. DSA has actual democratic socialist members, just not ones that would stoop as low as to run as a democrat. Anyone who's had the displeasure of attending a few DSA meetings can see the wide spectrum of ideologies represented within it, more than half of which can hardly be called anything remotely socialist.
The nazi's were self described "socalists" too. Let's not take people at their words on these things.
Edit: The point being made here is not that nazi's were socialist (they weren't) nor is it to paint Mamdani as a nazi. The point is him calling himself a socialist means nothing.
Can't wait for the usual pleas at protests in 2 years: "Please bro, just vote blue one more time, it'll work this time bro, Lenin would vote democrat! We gotta vote against fascism! Republicans would be worse bro! Please! Don't be an ultra-leftist!"
In the same way that your friend who drinks a couple beers a day after work is probably fine, you're probably fine spending a few hours after work playing games.
I vastly prefer/recommend stable LTS distros. There are really 2 main families of distros for this:
Linux Mint / Ubuntu LTS / Debian Stable (Ubuntu is based on Debian, Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS):
Basically endless amount of packages. Most people in the linux world have some familiarity with these so it shouldn't be hard to get help if you need it.
Rocky linux / Almalinux / RHEL (Rocky and Alma aim to be compatible with RHEL software):
For desktop systems people usually opt for fedora, but that distro does not meet my own criteria. Biggest reason you'd use these is for professional VFX software support. For whatever reason a lot of that stuff only has official support for this family of distros. Not sure why!
Get good at 1 of these families of distros. If you aren't vibing with one its okay to switch to the other. Both have more cutting edge options if you desire them.
Linux Mint is a community favorite and very much is built with a desktop user in mind, but I don't think it's unreasonable to subject someone to learning any of the others even if they are more server focused. Everything I listed has atleast 5 years of support! If your fiancee isn't super tech literate, you'll probably be the one doing a lot of the system maintenance so keeping those major updates sparse is a very good thing. And of course, if you don't wanna learn 2 different sets of tools, try and keep in the same family of distros.
Also, for desktop environment don't choose anything crazy obscure. KDE & Gnome are most common, Cinnamon & XFCE are less common but IMO fine. Venture into others at your own peril.
Transfer process depends on what you mean. Transferring your files will probably just take time. I'm hopelessly unorganized so for me backing stuff up takes a few days of combing through a bunch of junk and copying to a flashdrive or cloud storage. Other people might have more efficient ways of dealing with this though.
If you mean software Libreoffice is great local office software, SMplayer is imo a good media player, GIMP, Inkscape, and Krita got art stuff covered. We're also at the point you can more or less run most windows software on linux with enough fiddling, but that obviously isn't ideal.
Your biggest hurdle moving to linux full time will be understanding commands when you inevitably do need to change configuration of something with the terminal. If you need help there are usually forums, IRC, matrix, etc.
I'm convinced it likely happened because he was fucking with the collar on stream right after it was brought up and it takes 20 seconds to fix? What the hell kinda question is that?
The reason people respond to you in this way is because the first places this was posted about was in the H3 and Destiny reddit communities, and those communities are known to not be very fond of hasan, and are known to waste their time looking for any tiny bit of wrong doing.
This will be the end of me engaging in this conversation.
The problem that woman had was likely addressed in the small period of time hasan and her are finagling with the collar shortly after she brought it up.
Her emotional response is not proof of a shock collar, she never brought up a shock collar, she only said the collar was too tight.
Buddy, have you never snapped at a pet before? I'm not gonna claim hasan is a saint, but you bet your ass I've gotten upset at my dog before, sometimes when maybe I shouldn't have.
There is a disconnect here between what happened and the response people are having about it. You can say he was mean, sure, I don't think any of his behavior especially when its a one off thing, constitutes animal abuse though. Not in a legal sense, and not in any consistently applied social sense either.
And I think the reason that there is this disconnect is because several communities primed and ready to hate hasan are willing to pick out anything less than perfect and make mountains out of molehills.
Yes, I know that its nothing to do with socialist philosophy. Way to entirely misread my point.