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- the big guns: Gnome or Plasma
- the middle tier: Xfce or LXQt
- the lightweights: tiling window managers (and there’s a LOT to choose from)
- the alternative crowd: Mate, Cinnamon, Regolith
on the flip side, Linux, the distros, the desktops are a lot more about community than anything Windows – and Linux projects are a lot more willing to admit they can’t operate in isolation – there’s constant interplay between the projects, the security teams, the kernel hackers, the language devs, the testers, and the users – and they communicate with each other through the blogs and mailing lists and IRC and toots and Fedi communities
just don’t use talc to get that smell
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
“The hotel’s free WiFi is really fast”
“the DNS is disabled”
really start to worry when it’s 169.254.0.x
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“some settling may occur during shipping”
don’t worry, the Republicans are trying to change that
gin and tonic – safe, easy to make (doesn’t piss off the bartender), and isn’t sickly sweet
Reasons to be Cheerful – news site founded by David Byrne
“Self-defense is not violence.”
Florida has proven you can have fire and flood at the same time, so go for it!
you can have flooding without hurricanes though
in an ideal world (heh) – our primary choice would be pedestrian, bicycle, electric micromobility, public transit – electric cars reserved for accessibility (personal ownership) – gas cars reserved for remote sites (rent or checkout only, no personal or private ownership)
united in the love of embarrassing their kids
Also won’t there will be an fragmentation of users issue?
when you can follow, subscribe to, post to, or comment on any community on any instance, there’s no fragmentation
when followers know there are plenty of options, it also prevents any single community from becoming too big or overbearing – and since the instances are all privately owned, the only thing you gain by growing your community bigger than everyone else is increased server load