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I'm going with @Sandouq_Dyatha here and say that you are not all international elite spies.
And it's not that "countries I don't like manipulate their GDP".
It's more that GDP measurements, including the PPP kind, are fundementally flawed and that's by design.
China is around 2.5 times the economy of the US at this moment by looking how much they are manufacturing
and how much electricity they use, surpassing the EU per person.

Arch is better because...

• pacman, seriously, I don't hear enough of how great pacman is.
  Being able to search easily for files within a package is a godsend when some app refuses to work giving you an error message "lib_obscure.so.1 cannot be found".
  I haven't had such issues in a long time, but when I do, I don't have to worry about doing a ten hour search, if I'm lucky, for where this obscure library file is supposed to be located and in what package it should be part of.
• rolling release. Non-rolling Ubuntu half-year releases have broken my OS in the past around 33% of the time. And lots of apps in the past had essential updates I needed, but required me to wait 5 months for the OS to catch up.
• AUR. Some apps can't be found anywhere but AUR.
• Their wiki is the best of all Linuxes

The "cult" is mostly gushing over AUR.

the wiki ~~and forums~~ are the best of any distro

If you don't participate in it that is.
If you veer only a little off of their strict rules,
then Arch forum will ban you and they won't allow you to even read the forum.

Unity would be the first example, and although Unity was actually a good DE,
it was too bloated and almost non-modifiable.

People jumped ship to Linux Mint that had its priorities straight.

Mir and Snap were bigger issues though
as Wayland and Flatpak were great replacements for
X11 and AppImage and did not need another competitor.

But the privacy issues were the straw that broke the camel's back.
People left windows for linux so they wouldn't have to deal with this kind of nonsense.

I actually jumped when Ubuntu jumped to Gnome 3.
Gnome 3 was too bloated for me and it looked ugly.

I decided to see what Arch Linux was about
and eventually settled for Manjaro Linux.
Arch + Xfce for the win.

Who is Trump? Is that the same person as Mr. Orange, aka Oraanutan-san?

• Apps not available in distro repositories
• Apps with dependency conflicts

Really?
I thought it would be the demise of the World Bank, with AIIB showcasing the world how not to be exploitative.

So dumb people who can't do multiplications, but can count months, won't panic.

On a more serious not, most people skim the headline, read "three times" and think
"Wow! There's some work to do!" instead of
"Twelve times!? Then Russia is winning. Wait, Russia is winning?
Why is this newspaper not stating that Russia is winning?
There's no way Ukraine can win with one bullet versus twelve.
Shouldn't this be a giant issue?
Why is there no giant debate on this?
Why is my newspaper demanding a debate on this?
Should Ukraine even continue to risk sending its soldiers to fight a war
where the enemy has twelve times the amount of ammo?"

Oligarchs and their bootlickers

Boomers = 1950-1964
Gen X = 1965-1979
Gen Y = 1980-1994
Gen Z = 1995-2009
Gen α = 2010-2025

So ages

18-29
30-44
45-59
60+

Georg Hub, is that you?

As long as you don't use any of the windows and use the front door like my pet penguin, I won't mind.
And there's a kernel of truth in there and by that I don't mean the kernel of an apple.