On KDE Plasma, I would stick with Kate and hide/disable some the fancier interface features. It might seem like overkill, but since it’s built from common components that other KDE apps use anyway, the effective resource consumption will probably be light. And Kate is quick.

On a Gtk desktop, you might try Mousepad. This is what I used before moving away from Xfce.

Scintilla my beloved

(This is the text editor component in Geany and Notepad++)

Thrower is a viable build in this game, and there is a source of rats in Act 2. :)

The best time to quit Google was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

I’m talking about the whole stick, which most likely extends into the device. Not just the broken-off piece of the stick.

If you’re determined to avoid opening the enclosure to do the replacement, you might consider drilling a post hole into the remaining piece of the broken stick, and printing a replacement piece with a matching post, but I think you would get better results replacing the entire part.

Edit: Regardless of what new stick you choose, it might be worthwhile to reinforce it by drilling a hole in the center of its post and inserting a metal rod.

I don’t know the particulars of these devices, though. It’s possible that the stem part of the stick might be too short to easily work with, or the potentiometer assembly might be resist disassembly. Good luck!

Sorry you had bad luck there.

My recommendation is that if there are no spin with your favorite DE, you simply do not use that distribution

I guess that’s one way to be sure, but to me it seems excessively limiting. I have switched desktops on Debian-based distros, and the only tidying up I remember being needed was removal of the old desktop’s packages (to de-clutter my application menus) and a reboot (to launch the new display manager).

My recommendation to a new user would be to try whatever distro/desktop combo is appealing, and if it doesn’t work out, either do some troubleshooting or just move on to another one. It might not be a path as well tread as the distro’s default, but it might work fine. You’ll never know if you don’t try.

as it’s not being tested against.

That’s untrue in at least some cases. Of course, different distros have different policies and people maintaining their desktop packages, so YMMV.

“Calls to scrap” the disclosures make it sound like a societal movement, when in fact it’s just two people with obvious bias: Tim Sweeney and some guy who promotes Tim Sweeney’s products on youtube.

I don’t give a flying frog what they think. When I allow someone to sell me something, I like to know what’s in it.

I think I would start by scouring the web for suitable replacement stick 3D-printer files. Once I had those, I would investigate what 3D-printing filament material is especially strong, and look for a place to print the files with that material.

If there’s a hackerspace / makerspace in your area, someone there might be able to help.

Edit: The idea here is to make something that is stronger than the original stick or any cheap plastic replacement, in order to address OP’s recurring problem. (I thought that was obvious, but there’s at least one rude person here who apparently didn’t follow.)

I’ve never had logging in with a different desktop environment cause problems. (And I wouldn’t expect to. The desktop session selector on the login screen is there for a reason, after all.) Your comment makes me wonder what desktops you tried that stepped on each other, and what bugs you’re referring to.

In any case, if I had an experience like what you describe, I would simply re-create my user account and its home directory. Going through a whole OS install as you suggest would burn a lot more time with no advantage, which doesn’t seem “better” to me. To each their own, I guess.

Remember as well that your “distro spin” approach is only possible if such a spin exists. Example: If someone wants Linux Mint for its beginner-friendly community support, but also wants to try KDE Plasma, they can. But they’re going to have to install Plasma after the base OS, and switch.

If you want to stick with a Windows-like desktop, pick a KDE distro over GNOME.

I like KDE Plasma, too. Thankfully, most desktop distros have it in their repositories, so even if they use GNOME or some other desktop by default, you can install and switch to KDE after the initial OS install. I’m pretty sure this includes Linux Mint.

I might not agree with what ICE is doing but I also don’t agree with every corporation in the world having to morally police all of their customers for fear of being pilloried by cancel culturists.

I don’t think ICE behavior is remotely equivalent to celebrities who annoy people into trying to organize a boycott. To compare them like this suggests to me that the person doing so is either willfully complicit, or unfathomably out of touch. I hope you’ll give your position some more thought.

“The only thing nec­es­sary for the tri­umph of evil is for good men to do noth­ing.”

Careful. If that table breaks, you’ll all be eating without it.

no, Big Picture mode and Game Mode are two different things. Bazzite does have Game Mode for PCs tho as well.

GameMode is Feral Interactive’s project, and not what we are talking about.

However, a bit of searching turns up relevant info from Bazzite:

• Steam Gaming Mode is another name for gamepadUI.
• It is built from Big Picture Mode and Gamescope, just as I suggested.
• The interface is apparently available without loading Steam’s full desktop interface by launching Steam with the -gamepadui command line option.

Looks to me like what you’re talking about and what I suggested are practically the same thing, perhaps excluding Deck-specific features that wouldn’t be available in kolanaki’s scenario anyway. If there’s something more to it, then sharing what that is would be helpful.

When you get to the point where accurate fractional amounts matter, or if you start processing very large numbers, consider using an arbitrary precision arithmetic library instead of the simple CPU operations that C exposes.

I’d like to see exactly what a Deck user experiences, but on my desktop.

Don’t they see Steam’s Big Picture mode? I think you could just run that and Gamescope on whatever distro you like. No need to wait for SteamOS 3.

Why? The PET does what they need and has a crisp, clear, built-in display and a reliable power supply.

Just in case you aren’t aware, int division throws away remainders. (And float/double tends to accumulate small inaccuracies.) You’ll want to keep that in mind if using this code for budgeting or any other money calculations.

Congratulations on writing a working program!

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Are you unaware of anacron?

They acknowledge this in the article. The four levels of processing used in the University of São Paulo’s classification system are at least a start. Clearly we need to keep learning which aspects of these foods cause harm, and improving the classifications.

I’m also curious how much of the harm is caused by plastic contamination, either while the foods are being manufactured or picked up afterward from packaging.