I recommend giving the manual install a whirl… it might take you a couple tries, but it will help with your overall understanding of your system–this will be useful if anything ever goes sideways. It really isn’t that hard. What you learn during install (how to read the wiki effectively, partitioning layouts, how to set up a boot loader, what filesystems are available and how they’re different, what you need to install for firmware or build tools etc etc) will help demystify the system, and put the power to manage your system in your hands. Also if you ever run into an issue like your /boot or / partition being full and you want to resize your partitions, or your compositor won’t launch/is freezing and you need to use a TTY–you’ll be better equipped… even if that means you’re just a bit better at reading/searching the wiki.

What issue did you run into? Wiki makes it seem like it should be easy to change your username.

Not much. There are some tech communities that I still monitor there to keep up with the general public. and then i check my local city subreddit sometimes.

But mostly use rss, and then lurk lemmy.

true. but in my experience, most code redemption downloads don’t require info though… besides the usual collection of your data via fingerprinting and cookies.

where do you source most of your music? for music i really only pirate large artists/bands, so torrenting is pretty easy. i haven’t bothered with soulseek–a centralized network doesn’t appeal that much, and i’m not desperate. if i really need something, and can’t find it, i just use yt-dlp.