Did you try to hack a Gibson from your home?

I lost my home to an accident. An rm -rf accident… :(

Whoa, that’s early KDE? They really went all in on looking like contemporary Windows.

I’ve used Linux since the mid 00’s and, well, I’ve seen some shit. But nowadays? It’s the best desktop OS I’ve used. I recently had to start using a Mac for work and realized just how far DE’s like Gnome and KDE have gotten. It feels like I have to fight MacOS every single day to get it to do the absolute basics, the things that Gnome and KDE does out of the box. And the most ridiculous thing is that the app ecosystem for MacOS is so heavily focused on monetization that if you purchase enough apps to customize the MacOS DE to an acceptable level, you’d likely have spent enough money to buy another laptop. Madness.

TL;DR: Turns out that this year is actually the year of Linux on the desktop!

Wait, encryption counts as bullshit now? ;)

What brand is it? I’m waiting for my crowdfunded mini PC which will definitely be running Linux, so I’m curious as to other people’s experiences.

I think I’ve used it once in 15 years or so. It’s typically easier to go with bash or Python.

I think a lot of people dislike Ubuntu because of Gnome and Snaps, which is weird to me. You can fairly easily change desktop environment and most Snaps have apt or Flatpak alternatives.

I’ve (almost) always had good experiences with Lenovo laptops, especially T-series or X1 Carbon.

I don’t use Endeavor or Arch (btw), but KDE Plasma is amazing. I’d probably be happy with any distro as long as it supported plasma.

Plasma is amazing. I’m never going back to Gnome and am ready to become a contributor just because I like the DE so much.