Kalpa needs to attract more developers to keep up with Aeon’s pace. I understand it is usable as a daily driver, but it’s not just a one to one mirror of Aeon with Plasma on top.

https://sfalken.tech/posts/2024-06-08-how-do-aeon-and-kalpa-relate/

Richard Brown is all in on Aeon along with whatever contributors are helping him. Stephen Falken appears to have no one helping him work on Kalpa unfortunately. I disagree with Richard’s stance that Kalpa shouldn’t exist, but I do wish there were some capable people able to help that project.

I don’t mind using Gnome anyway, it actually does solve some networking issues that I’ve always had with Plasma. (Dolphin not handling it well whilst Gnome Files has no issues)

I’ve been using Opensuse Aeon just over a year and it’s done great.

Tumbleweed user for the last 5 years, and dealt with a few issues over that time. The usually infrequent update break that comes with rolling release. And the Opensuse ‘Patterns’ started, which I loathe and it’s a disaster to try to disable them every install.

Aeon hasn’t had any of those issues. It’s been very much a “turn it on and get to work”.

I’ve generally had less issues with Aeon than Tumbleweed - like certain flatpaks not crashing.

But downsides as I see them:

I’m not a gnome guy. It’s fine though, I don’t hate it. But some people can’t stand it.

I had a bit of trouble running wine. Something about the default security policy. There’s a known workaround.

I took it as a question of which distro looks nicest out of the box (like, which distro manager has made real effort to make something particularly nice looking).

Phone: It’s iphone mini because fuck bigger phones

Card holder style wallet- only needs to hold a few cards so don’t need anything bulky: Bank card, drivers licence, Medicare card, construction induction card, myki card for public transport

Keys on carabiner: Car key, house key, mini screwdriver

Pint of cider

North American or Non-American colours?

Also Rex Krueger is worth having on the list https://m.youtube.com/@RexKrueger

Safety adviser currently in airport safety

Yeah, I’m going 1h 15m each way for work. As soon as we see interest rate cuts I will gladly take the pay cut to work closer to home, but I can’t do that now until repayment gets down under 3000/month at least but I dream of something like 2800…

Mate, that sucks. For 15 years I lived in a 1 bedroom place I bought in Melbourne. No aircon, and no car, so had some brutal summers to get through. I thought I’d be stuck forever, never thought I’d know anything different.

I’m surprised we’re not seeing house prices come down. Where I am now in central Victoria, there’s 6 or 7 places around our street on the market for 6 - 9 months or longer. No one wants to budge and sell for cheaper so no one’s buying.

I’m not happy with current prices for sure, has put a real pressure on us.

I am happy about the house. Built 1985. Relocated to an area I have grown to love and gotten away from a poor 1 bedroom place I lived in for 15 years. And a real nice place to raise our daughters.

When I bought it, we said we worked hard to be able to do this, and we’ll keep working hard and one day be on top again. But then the economy shifted and we’re struggling to keep that optimism.

3300/month, bought house at end of 2020 for 620k. Repayments were comfortable at 2400/month until June 2022.