Both. Context-dependant.

Eee-ther or eye-ther

Thats cool, but it doesn’t clear the onus of proof.

It doesnt really matter and they owe us nothing, but it sure would clear up a LOT of the kiwi farms drama if they did. At present, kiwi farms has better evidence than you do.

That’s definitely a picture of a laptop.

I was waiting for someone to say that.

I like that Mate is a thing, but like I said, I’m looking for something thats based on it but as if its had the same 20 years of enhancements everything else got.

The closest thing to that I’ve found is quite literally KDE. So I use KDE.

I miss old Gnome. I wish they’d stuck with the old Gnome 2 design philosophy but breathed new modern design principals into it, instead of trying to go the Ubuntu Unity route. Maybe something like Cinnamon but even more flexible and feature-rich.

For those of us that expect room to breathe and make our machine work for us rather than the other way around, we feel like Gnome takes a lot of liberties away for the sake of “simplicity.” There is so much missing from Gnome that is present in most other DEs and even custom WM setups.

The primary contributors who work under The Gnome Foundation also come off as controlling and arrogant in a lot of cases, and refuse to take community feedback to heart, whereas KDE has literal summits to get user feedback on major core features we want to see which then later get added to their backlogs and sprints as Epics. Gnome acts a lot like Apple in the sense that they’re very much “we know what’s best for you better than you do.”

Now, the singular area I can give Gnome true props in is their accessibility functionality, but that’s primarily it. KDE’s accessibility is fairly behind by about a decade in comparison.

That’s just my take, take it as you will.

Kmail is simple and to the point, and at least in my experience is easier to set up. Bonus, if youre on KDE, it integrates very nicely.

It’s also more performant than Thunderbird.

• AMD drivers: use the built-in MESA drivers that include the official AMD support.

• Gmail: ProtonMail for the service, Kmail for the desktop client.

• Chrome: Firefox, or Librewolf if you care about privacy.

• Office365: LibreOffice for full FOSS or OnlyOfficr for less freedom but more comfort.

• iTunes: depends entirely on what you use it for, but I buy my music mostly off of BandCamp these days.

• MuseScore: MuseScore

• Norton: Why were you using Norton in the first place? It’s practically a virus itself. If you need an antivirus on Linux, you might want ClamAV/ClamTK for something that runs locally only, or Microsoft Defender for Linux.

• Py-Charm: Py-Charm, VSCode, Vim, Kate/KWrite

• Remote Desktop to iOS: I got nothin’

• Star Citizen: Star Citizen

• Steam: Steam

• VPN: Wireguard

• Windows Games: install locally using Wine and then add to Steam as a non-Steam game to use Proton for better support.

Windows 10: run it in a VM if you still need it, or keep it on a separate SSD and dual boot into that.

Gnomelets BTFO by chad KDE screenshots

I like it

After completing the challenge and making sure your system is usable and can survive a reboot:

If you’ve kept the old package manager, search for installed packages and make sure that the package manager itself is the only thing left. Then delete it.

The beauty of this exercise is you can make it as easy or challenging as you want just by changing the targets, and finding different combinations can keep things interesting.

As other commenters have said, its about as strenuous as doing two normal installs.

However, if you want to do this challenge but feel guilty about the consumed resources, consider donating to the two distros you are performing this with to cover any additional service costs. In all likelihood it’ll only cost them fractions of pennies, but any reason to donate to FOSS is always appreciated.

Oh I totally believe that. I can imagine how stressful that is.

This goes against the spirit of the challenge, but as its a singleplayer game (unless you bring friends and SSH!) you can definitely choose to allow dd, chroot, and similar tools

Removed by mod

I wasn’t sure if Hector was gonna quit vtubing too after the Rust thing. Kind of a delayed response as his alter ego but it makes sense.

I made this mistake too when I figured out I had ADHD. I had a shiny new hammer to fix all my problems with, and EVERYTHING was a nail. And I really liked showing off my shiny new hammer to explain why I was trying to hammer all these nails.

People didn’t like it very much. I was being obnoxious. I know I was. I knew it at the time too, but still couldn’t stop myself.

Our culture right now does not favor talking about mental health in any capacity, and I think part of that comes from shame for some people (“oh no, what if I’m similar and have it?”), and for other people its just a frustrating change in routine (“oh God am I going to have to listen to this every day from now on, and change how I do things to boot?”) - it becomes extra burden in their eyes.

The trick is masking. It’s always masking. It sucks that we have to mask, but masking unfortunately works. Don’t talk about your issues, or if you do only do it once with any particular group of people.

On the flipside, it’s still important to be yourself. Find a good group who you don’t have to wear the mask around and spend as much time with them as you can, so you can deal with the times you do.

Ahh yea that’d do it. I didn’t even know there was a wireless option.