@Bozza

I'm not familiar with OpenSUSE; will have to look into that. A buddy of mine recommended Mint as a mostly-no-pain Windows alternative but he's not a gamer so couldn't tell me about support for that distro.

Does Linux (both OpenSUSE and in general) generally play nice with AMD processors? I wouldn't expect it would but figure it can't hurt to ask.

I'm still hoping someone else in the PC market, particularly the gaming sector, sees this whole thing for the golden opportunity it is. Microsoft is cutting off it's left arm to spite its face and leaving literally millions of customers twisting in the wind. If Valve can get off their ass and develop a working PC version of their OS they could sweep in and play the hero while handily pocketing all the money Microsoft is leaving on the table.

@First-light

The problem is Sykes Picot was not a natural solution.

Neither was the Europeans carving up Africa. Or Americans expanding ever westward and shunting the natives onto relatively tiny reservations. Or any of countless other instances of a conquering power moving in and imposing their will on a region and its people.

The Palestinians got a raw deal. You'll get no argument from me on that point. They are not, however, trapped. As @Typo-MAGAshiv has repeatedly pointed out in this thread, they're free to join Israeli society as full citizens. Yes, they have to renounce any claim to conquered territory in order to do so, but seeing as they and their land have already been effectively conquered... well, there you go.

They can either set and stew in envy and resentment on their little reservations or accept the world has changed and try to make a go of things in the new order. Shit sucks but, as you noted, that's the way of things.

@MentORPHEUS

How and why Israel was established, where the Palestinians came from and how long they've been there are all immaterial to my point. Israel wields the Big Stick in the region so, for the moment, Israel is in charge. I can fully understand the Palestinians being unhappy with that state of affairs but appeals to fairness and justice are ultimately nothing more than admissions of weakness in the game of geopolitics. That only works if the one holding the Big Stick cares about such things, such as was the case in India when the British ruled.

Israel obviously either doesn't care or disagrees about their behavior being unfair or unjust. Again, whether that's true or whether others in the region agree with their position ultimately doesn't matter. They hold the Big Stick so they make the rules.

@woodsmoke

he ancestors of the Palestinians moved in and made themselves at home.

Fast forward a couple thousand years, give or take, and some of the descendants of those to whom Rome had given the boot convinced the Allied Western nations to make it theirs again

This accounting neglects Ottoman Turks holding control over it for centuries as part of their empire, and the British taking it from them, not out of the generosity of their hearts, but in the interests of colonialists and business magnates, who used the "homeland for The Jews" explanation to take control of the resources in that region in the wake of WWI, with Lord Balfour a major figure. The United States took over control in the wake of WWII after Britain's losses therein. Bottom line, it wasn't "bigger allies taking it back for the Jews" it was them using their big guns to take control of the region for their OWN financial benefit.