Ben

I was excited when I bought an Amiga 500, and ever since then the main thing I noticed is that the EXCITEMENT of getting a computer was always over-ruled by my ability to exploit it’s powers and use it.

So my perspective is that all computers and operating systems SUCK. But some suck less than others…

So using Manjaro KDE, it sucks less because it’s very simple and easy for me to install whatever I like - having AUR available, being able to search with pamac to include repos, AUR and Flatpak (even snap if I was that desperate).

KDE also gives you super powers to fuck up modify your desktop experience and shortcuts.

It’s been good to me for 6 years now. After going Ubuntu>Mint I was excited to leave Debian and try something else, I never made it to the Redhat camp (always interested to try Fedora) and hopefully will never feel the need.

So yes, what I like MOST is - it mostly just works. And when it fails, the forum is awesome.

Hard to find something depressing with no experience.

What is depressing is that tens of millions JUMP on the platform, knowing already that Meta is evil and not caring.

The human race is digging it’s own grave, and the handful that know better will just get pulled down.

Not here…

TTIME (abbr - not alias)

abbr -a -- ttime date\ \'+It\ is\ \%-H\ \%M\ and\ \%S\ seconds\'\|espeak\ \>/dev/null\ 2\>/dev/null # imported from a universal variable, see `help abbr`

Confusion here between ‘Service’ and ‘Software’ methinks…

Here’s Discord running in a FOSS browser…

So I wouldn’t be worrying about software.

I used the ‘betterdiscord-installer’.

Ferdium still looking good.

However, Discord isn’t so much an application as a protocol - you’re just changing the client.

This is pretty awesome.

Where are they?

That’s a shit load of money!

That’s interesting. I picked up memebership in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world (same username) after trying Beehaw and finding that I was met with an endless circle of progress when submitting…

Haha yes, I have to stay out of arguments involving Snap vs Flatpak for this reason. I ended up leaving Mint through issues with my HTPC install - with Plex, the ‘Home Theater’ app died it’s death, and options were tough to install - so I went for Arch, failed to get that working well, then tested KDE with Manjaro - bingo!

Until a couple of months ago, I was installing PlexHTPC via AUR which unpacked the snap and installed it - that’s so awesome… though now it’s dead so I had to jump onto the newly opened Flatpak option (AUR stuck at 1.30.1-1 whilst Flathub is up to 1.39.2).

After the PPA nightmares I had with 'buntu, and later with Mint (PPA’s made for 'buntu often don’t work) it’s like a dream.