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The most of countries likely to invade Canada is as follows:

• the USA

Nobody else could manage a land assault on North America. Coming in from the arctic would be almost impossible.

Invading from the west or south means the US is in the way. And the US is unlikely to tolerate an invasion to the continent anyway (unless they are involved). And where is an invasion from the east being staged? Europe?

In practice, Finland and Poland are the greatest protection against Russia as they are very much in the way and would trigger all of NATO.

Many European counties have very credible defence industries. From what we have seen in Ukraine, NATO (even without the US) has both a technological and tactics advantage against Russia.

We are also seeing that warfare has changed. He who makes the most drones and cruise missiles wins.

And Europe could massively outspend Russia, again without help from the US.

Germany has massively stepped up their military spending. If they had to, Norway to completely fund a NATO war against Russia on their own.

The only thing the US really brings to NATO these days is their nuclear arsenal. But again, Russia has shown that their “superiority” in this area is useless in practice. It will not help them in a war with Europe.

The only way that Europe loses against Russia is if the US teams up with them. This used to be an insanely unlikely outcome but….

Did you mean USSR? I assume so but it is just “not obvious” enough that I may be missing out on what URSS means.

I see that you have responded to multiple people this way.

I have never heard of you but your responses lead me to believe that they are correct.

That would be a plot twist. Far more likely is that they go in on it together.

I used to think the problems with Manjaro stemmed from Arch. The I tied EndeavourOS and I thought that EOS was fixing the Arch problems.

Then I tried Arch and realized that all the problems are the result of Manjaro. Arch does not have them. None of the other derivatives have them either.

Manjaro is a Trojan Horse.

They may team up

It has gotten better in Wayland. I am looking forward to the near future when we can finally stop appending “on Wayland” to everything.

You should use what you like.

COSMIC may offer a middle ground if you did want to try something else though.

And KDE is very configurable. It does not have to look like Windows.

The GNU projects that people actually use are primarily hosted, maintained, and developed by Red Hat (IBM). They are the primary code contributors. Not just GPL, GNU specifically.

This is just a fact.

https://sourceware.org/ (Previously known as sources.redhat.com)

There is more permissively licensed code in most Linux distributions than there is GPL code. Not only is that permissive code not being “stolen” by “mega corps” but the majority of it is corporately funded.

Again, just facts. All pretty easy to verify if facts matter at all to you.

What part did not make sense? Just that the facts do not agree with your opinion?

The comment I responded to was stating things that sounded like facts that are not at all supported by the evidence. And if I ask for some, I am pretty sure the cherry-picked examples will be mostly companies “stealing” projects that they wrote to begin with.

The thesis that permissive licenses result in less Open Source code is wrong. In fact, they lead to greater corporate participation and employees write more code than unsponsored individuals. That is what the evidence shows.

Use whatever licenses you want. Not wanting companies to use code you wrote is a totally valid choice. But you should not have to misrepresent reality to convince other people to do the same.

You are in luck. COSMIC launches in 3 days.

I am also interested to see what kind of adoption COSMIC gets. From the comments I have seen, I looks like it may pull-away a fair number of GNOME users.

Nor sure that COSMIC calendar will have all the features you want. COSMIC is a pretty good base for GNOME apps though. It does not have to be either / or.