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  Finally! Ditched Windows It took my old laptop dying on me for me to finally ask my geeky neighbor to install Mint on another laptop I had around. It’s been a few hours and Omigod. Why did I waste so much time? It works. It’s easy and intuitive. It makes sense. There’s no bullshit. I still have to make Antidote talk to Libre Office, but whatever. The rest feels good and natural. So please whoever is here because you’re contemplating switching: do it yesterday.

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  It really is. Of course, we still live in a wider context of corporate capitalism, and it sucks here as it does in the whole country. They're gutting public transit, school budgets, and healthcare. Our local representatives are hard-right assholes, because the old farts vote more than us.

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  Rural France, as far from the 20 biggest cities as geographically possible, a hard-left hotspot for the last few centuries. Tbh we have like 10 local leftist third places (a co-op bar/live shows place, a freecycle place, two boardgame/rpg bars, a pay-what-you-can (good) restaurant with ultra-local food, a community hall for crafts, homework, WFH, and random meetings,two community theaters.)

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  Thanks ! Not a native speaker, so don't put too much faith in my answer, but: for me, it means actual left, faaaar left, not the milquetoast leftf-wing parties that sometimes win elections in Western Europe. There's a good measure of gift economy, for example. We share many resources, grow food for each other (I do squash, a neighbor does leek, and so on--but we don't trade, we just take what we need.) When we need musclepower we just pass the word around and strangers or f...

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  Oh so now I'm committed I need _luck_ all of a sudden?

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  Central France. You coming?