I don’t hate flatpaks, but flatpaks require more disk space than the same apps from traditional repositories, and they only support a handful of the most common default themes. Since I only ever use older and slower computers, my disk space is limited, and I like to rice my desktop, I personally avoid them. But your use-case may differ.

Disclaimer: I’m incredibly ignorant. Wouldn’t wireless necessarily mean high-latency?

It does not run well. You can’t see the performance difference between KDE and XFCE on neofetch, but you absolutely can on on old machine.

Source: I have an old computer.

Mabox!

Enable the chaotic AUR and you won’t even have to build from source.

Wait, are they actually doing development work, or are they just merging from downstream?

Linux is modular, not fragmented.

Except Gnome. Fuck Gnome.

The classical music world has been through this before, with Richard Wagner. Orchestras in Israel wouldn’t play his music for decades, but eventually, even they relented. It’s good music. Well, I mean, between the boring halves of hours, anyway, it’s good music.

Thank you for providing an actual answer. Most of the comments in this thread are condescending as hell.

This is a popular opinion outside of Lemmy. You won’t find many lowercase “l” libertarians here though.

How important is the Windows-style desktop? If the VM is designed for one thing and one thing only, I’d pick any minimal WM that can alt-tab, say JWM, and then just add Firefox and Thunderbird to the autostart file.

Either scalloped with cheese, boiled in chicken broth until the broth boils off and the potatoes are basically already mashed for you, or my laptop.

I’m shocked Lemmy has so many users. Feels like only a few thousand.

If you find a Lemmy community where you can be yourself without getting encircled by screeching harpies, let me know. I haven’t been at home on social media since before Ruqqus got overrun by neo-Nazis.

Most of Lemmy only knows what conservatism is based on the strawman they get from other lefties, and even if they did know what conservatives actually believe, the vast majority of Lemmy users are incapable of evaluating someone else’s viewpoint on its own terms; they will declare it internally inconsistent when it is merely inconsistent with their own values.

You’re asking a question with the presumption of empathy. That makes you a good person. It also makes you an outcast here.

Ultra-libertarian Jingoist? I’m as confused by that combination of words as I am the flags on the truck.

Minecraft. It desperately needs some QoL improvements for it to be anything but tedious.

Give me an archive link and I’ll click it every time. Otherwise, almost never.

Wait, most people agree that Walter starts off as a decent man?

But… the abuse is literally baked into my original comment. DRM. DRM is the abuse. Just because you’re used to it doesn’t mean that it was ever ok.