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Finally, someone had to say it. While capitalism is far from perfect, I’d rather have billionaire capitalist assholes that I can then call on their bullshit than so-called ‘socialism’ which is just the pretty way to call a dictatorship. Show me one ‘socialist’ country that has thrived. One, come on.

Or just drop Winblows and finally move to freedom by installing a good Linux distro.

That’s what I’m trying to do, have a very minimal interface and handle as much as possible with keyboard while still having a usable system with only the minimum necessary GUI. It’s going to take a lot of unlearning/learning. I don’t want to rely on pointer as much. And I get that this is not for everyone, I’m already test-driving Niro since it’s closer to my Gnome work flow and may be a learning curve with a bit less friction that Hyprland or Swey.

I tried the last Cosmic, but found it lacks some of my wokflow parts, such as infinite auto-generated virtual desktops. Plus, Cosmic is still pointer first.

I really need to give WMs a try again. It’s a huge switch in Streamline, but I think that if I push through with one of the best WMs for a week or 2, I could get use to the new interactions,eventually.

Any suggestions for a long-time Gnome user that feels very comfortable with CosmicDE as it is right now?

I hate a fee things about Gnome, like how hacky it is to get any screen shot app other than Gnome’s to work. Having said that, I tried KDE for a few days, then I tried to customize it to simulate my workflow I think it Gnome as much as possible. Both experiences were a complete fail. It’s very hard for me to move from Gnome. Let’s see what Cosmic brings to the table in 2026. It’s way closer to Gnome in many ways.

As for tour question, to me the DE is 80% of the experience.

I’m still not connecting NY TV to any network, local or otherwise.

Everything. Self host everything, even your pets.

Same here, only 9 years ago. On the not so bright side, every few months I go in a distro hopping frenzy for a day or 2 but it’s fine, since any distro installed takes me at most 15 minutes.

planning on cutting back some AI features where they don’t make sense.

Lol, that’s basically saying they’ll remove AI from the entire system, 🤣

As is the make and model of her first car. Completely irrelevant.

Intel Arc = 3

This is exactly right. Which brings us to the ‘half-baked’ option of self-hosting anything. For example, if you self-host a matrix server for you and your friends and family (assuming you’re able to get them to use it), your data, on your end, is relatively safe and you’re in control, however, the others may have their devices compromised either by Google on stock Android, Microslop on Windows or iOS on Crapple devices, so whatever you share with them is still at risk of being gathered by these tech giants anyway. It’s a very hard problem to solve. The technology for the solution is there, but it’s unrealistic to expect everyone to just drop everything they know and are used to, since lack of convenience and friction is just too much for most normies to even attempt to deal with.

I don’t know how these laws work when everything you and your environment use is self-hosted, but where I am it’s the one thing you can do to control your data, by law. Not even a warrant allows checking personally owned or company owned devices. However, most, if not all, institutions and companies rely entirely on US based tech hosted in the US. That shit needs to end.

Don’t get me wrong, it is (Jesus, I have a hard time using this word for ANY Winblows, but I can’t think of anything else before coffee) good, no real complains other than the ridiculous resources usage, and the UI certainly beats the hell out of XP. But resources use is my issue, unnecessary background shit running all the time, whereas XP remained way lighter. As I said, anything after 7 has been consistent crap and has just been getting exponentially worse.

Anyway, Linux and Gnu has been my life for way too long now. I only know about Winblows issues because I come in here and hear my circle of acquaintances complaining, which only makes me laugh because they choose to keep dealing with that crap when there are so many options.

Ain’t that the truth? I feel like Distro hopping is an integral part of falling in love with Linux. In my case, I get distro hopping zoomies every few months 🤣

My bad, I apologize, and thanks for clarifying. I think my brain automatically changed shell for terminal, and I could have sworn your reply had a question mark after ‘terminal’. Gotta stop replying here when I’m almost asleep.

For shell, I always end up switching to Zsh, mainly because of the extensive and easy customization.

The reality is, and I say this with a heavy heart, that Crapple is ahead of everyone else in how to keep the money and stock prices moving in their favor. They ‘rent’ AI capabilities from OpenAI and Google and put their money where they always have, making new devices, some good developing and fucking over everyone in their walled garden. Microslop, on the other hand, has completely lost its north.

Full disclosure, I fucking hate Crapple almost as much as I hate Microslop, but they evidently know what they’re doing. How long they can keep their shit up is another conversation for another time.

I think W7 would be the very last option, everything after that has been shit, and getting worse. I still prefer XP though, except for the hideous UI.

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And again, see comment below 😂

I used to be a diehard Fedora user and suggested it to everyone. Then they started allowing AI generated code, and I flipped. Moved to CachyOS on both my PC and Laptop, and they have been incredibly solid for about 3 months now.