That’s literally what I wrote on a satirical post about moving to Windows! https://lemmy.world/comment/14612934 Except I was being sarcastic and you’re being serious.

That is part of the deal with Debian. You get stable software… but you only get stable software. If you want bleeding edge software, you’ll have to install it manually to /usr/local, build from source and hope that you have the dependencies, or containerize it with Distrobox.

If you go to a butcher, don’t complain about the lack of vegan options.

It’s literally how Blender is distributed. Get archive, extract wherever, run blender.

Calling something “literall 1984” is trite, I know, but this is pretty damn close to getting charged with wrongthink.

Just off the top of my head:

State-sponsored higher education that is later paid back through taxes. Free healthcare, also paid for by taxes, and affordable medicine. Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace. Labour laws. Paid sick leave and mandatory minimum vacation days. Paid maternity leave, and tax breaks for new mothers.

PM is a Russian asset, but still better than Trump.