Just about everything, really. I’m not a Linux wizard or anything, just to preface.

I like the amount of control it lets me have over everything while also not allowing me to “accidentally” the whole everything. I like that it’s fast and not resource intensive. Love that I can run it on my crunchy old netbook, and yet also my gaming desktop. Also like that it’s Xfce which I’m fond of.

I guess most of that can also apply to many other distros, too. To summarize, suppose I just prefer it.

MX Linux is my daily atm. I tend to hop around every few months (normally I use Mint.). Honestly, I’m enjoying it far more than Mint and don’t see that changing.

Dunno about what’s up with distrowatch; just chiming in as that one MX Linux person.

I use Xfce daily. I honestly prefer it to others. Never had any issues with it, either.

I just set this up a few nights ago. It’s been really nice!

Alliance? Please. They’ve been creating this crisis with their actions/inaction and now it’s the homeless peoples’ faults? Where are they gonna f*ckin go??

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Absolutely me irl.

Then they double down and explain again, but even more complicated this time around.

I’ve been using Linux Mint and found it to be great. Not a single issue so far, whereas I was having quite a few with PopOS, which was my daily for about two years prior.

Haven’t had to do any special tinkering at all. Currently hopping between Cyberpunk, Baldur’s Gate 3, and BattleBit without any problems.

It’s Ubuntu-based (which is based off Debian?) BUT Ubuntu it is not. Now I’m confused. 😁

Yeah, ancient and possibly eldlritch buttworms. :X

I know of at least one orange dude that just about nothing has happened to for what… seven years now? So yeah, guess it tracks.

I have to take notes on paper, or it’s completely out of my head. Phone, computer, etc is so ingrained in my day-to-day it becomes lost in an afterthought, so physically jotting stuff down engages my brain in a different (arguably better, for me) way.

Until he’s in prison, none of this back and forth matters. Exhausting.

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No but really, that’s pretty interesting. I’ve heard that infants who were breastfed longer (idk what longer entails exactly) are “healthier?”

Wonder if any of that is true and/or correlates.

It all just seems like a fantastical distraction. This keeps popping up over and ever, and there’s never any meat to it. Would be pretty interesting, albeit terrifying, if there was.

Fresh lemon juice / zest. Just wow.

What is this plastic frisbee assed boomerang looking horror…

Surprise, surprise!

Sorry for late reply!

“Con crud” is this apparent illness where you cough up gunk. Idk if it tracks regionally but where I was from it was a thing and absolutely terrible. Also wow, that’s great! Hirokatsu Kihara wrote two of the Ghibli movies I recently introduced my partner to!

Yes, I did not approve of said “glomp” and it was super uncool to just leap onto someone. I was too stunned to do much, but other people told them off. It didn’t stop them from following me around the con for some time after, but I didn’t let that ruin things.

Unfortunately, I did mostly walk around, haha. Actually didn’t end up spending too much, as I was part of one of the con’s performances, being part of the aforementioned cosplay pair. I ended up befriending a group of people seemingly outta nowhere who invited me back to their hotel (I promise it doesn’t get bad lol). They were all using this big room as a sort of hub to meet up, do costume repairs, swap out cosplays as some had 2-3 planned per day. A nice person bought me food and the evening ended with 4-5 of us sitting around on this patio outside the hotel sipping fancy drinks and beers.

It wasn’t bad, and I feel like I got to experience people more like me than not. Somehow I didn’t get the “con crud” so that’s cool.

I’ve been to a few with friends, although I’ll say I’m more of a casual anime dabbler than a full on fan. Normally, I don’t much care for social gatherings or large of events of any kind. I found I didn’t have much issue with the conventions though, as everyone was really focused on their own things, costumes, interests, etc.

There was one time I went in cosplay with a friend, as a sort of pair. It was not a cosplay I created, but a really well-made loaner. Anyway, while walking down a hallway someone sprinted, running up to me and jumping completely onto my back… clung to me like a wild gibbon or something! I had no idea who they were, what they wanted, and just sort of stood there confused / shocked.

So anyway, that’s when I learned what a “glomp” was and that some people get really into the anime characters and stuff. 😅