Why?

Cinnamon’s been working well for me; I’d choose that, and I don’t mind waiting till my laptop breaks to reassess what DE I want!

Hurrah for a fellow rat poison user! (I haven’t used it in ages though.)

It all looks good now :-)

So, my Lemmy app - and I think a lot of Lemmy, renders markdown, so whenever you write “<…>” It disappears for me!

I would try NixOS, because it’s declarative so it’s essentially impossible to break

I have been using Arch for (holy crap) 15 years, and I’ve never experienced an update breaking my system

And for this reason I would naysay the people recommending Nixos. I used to use Arch, and had few major problems, but lots of times that required me to engage my brain - and not always when I wanted to. One of the reasons I left was wanting something I wouldn’t have to suddenly deal with, or always keep an eye on the Arch news.

(The main reason I moved though was at that time no internet connection in the house for all those constant updates! And an Ubuntu repository in country for when I did have a slow net connection. Else I might have just stayed with Arch.)

Nix’s declarative model is great in principle, but there’s always things to go wrong in computers. If nothing else, you should always have your browser up to date for security, and up to date means updates - changes. Because Nix is aimed at technical folks, it’s likely to have many hiccups that “just need a bit more learning curve then it’ll be stable” - and that only occur for some people.

Even Mint has things that go wrong, that I can easily fix but worry me when I recommend it to Windows friends. (And I see you’re after Plasma so Mint maybe not the best.)

Says the comment without punctuation ;-)

Cat: why do the mice always see me coming??

https://www.xemacs.org/

Do you think the AI was just fed the title to make an image, and successfully combined “rust” and “os”?

I recommend distrohopping to check out Vista and iOS. It’s easier to get started with if you dual boot them on your W11 netbook.

I like flapjack* for the occasional programs I want the newest version.

*Sure, autocorrect, let’s call it that now.

I’ve also hopped distros on a scale of several years at a time. Loved Arch before I was living on an awful internet connection; did Ubuntu until they messed with snaps; loved Tumbleweed for a few years, but the volume of updates was getting a bit much; nearly learnt Nix but a trial run of Home Manager went up in flames, then I realised multiple layered package versions wasn’t worth the ‘stability’; now Mint’s been doing the job nicely, but I’m tempted to try KDE’s new distro someday.

You know, not everybody likes onions.

Cakes! Everybody likes cakes! Cakes have layers.

Why can’t software be like cakes?

Pour a cup of java and write it down in javascript.

“We noticed you’re good at solutions when things are mixed up - so we’d like to offer you a job in a warehouse.”

Of course not. Sysadmin skills are good for pouring the drinks, not managing the restaurant.

Yes, but… IIRC dubious connections and motives. Cf the Audacity debacle

it’s a polite way of saying, “intelligence vs emacs”

Just, um, don’t invite that guy who helped out with the xz tools…