Yeah, nowdays DEs embedded customisation options cover so must of their default user-base needs that they are basically fully automatic rice cookers.

And that is how open sauce works, it develops over time according to needs, not based on boardroom needs, monetization-focused panel research, and constant UI changes just for the sake of it.

And there are still the basically provided options for even any deep ricing needs if you want to do so.

Luigi surrealism

PeeOnThats*

Yes, Framework!

It’s great, works perfectly, and you support something (principals, ways) worth supporting!
Something what won’t lead to/support further enshitification of all the things.
(And we might even get usable RISC–V laptops fairly soon - to even further ditch megacorps.)

For real.

Just another day in the system only oppressing the poor.

We underfund our heroes, don’t we?

(Also that monitors model name in the thumbnail “UHD 4K 2K” :D

Yeah, thats almost 150% more than my (theoretical) bandwidth at home (Gbps but I live alone & just don’t want to pay much), and that is just assuming constant workload (peaks must be massive).

This is indeed considerate, yet hopefully solvable. It certainly is from the link perspective.

Ohh, for ez donations too!

Yeah, uble that centre of commerce!

Wait, is this within unix surrealism universe?

Anyways, my trusty usb cable wired to a 9" nail in my forehead can interact and even fix most drivers.

Tumbleweed (common)

Just a weed, a rolling shrubbery, non-evil.

My grandparents (now 90+) didn’t care much when I would change their distro, they are currently on Tumbleweed (just bcs thats what I decided to run on everyones computer I’m asked to maintain).

I would keep their general experience about the same for their use case (same desktop/desktop dock shortcuts, same browser ofc).

But yeah, Fedora (def Silverblue) or wherever you are familiar with.
(Lol, I never actually tried Mint myself, but that too - like a modern Ubuntu alternative)

It does seem like that.
(Be sure to thank the kit for its years of service)

And if you triggered any failsafes they would have reset by now.

The mobo button battery can rarely make seem the mobo dead, but usually still does at least something.
(I’m not saying it’s likely, just that it’s the last thing I can think of)

Yeah, good advice.

For my parents house with NAS in their living room I still use WD Red Plus (not Red Pro), so pleasant & quiet (which was basically my only concern). But smol. Can’t find new ones as quiet tho.

How is the noise?
Did you make any model selection based on that?

Oh, wow, this is beautiful!

So fancy.

And yes, stock gnome looked indeed a bit better but KDE :).

Same, but with rsync.
I’m just not competent.

Yes, as said, Im agreeing, I was just pointing out the sad reality of what the majority is doing (and like it or not, that affects us all).
I’d love a legit third choice (again)!

Ok, but “google-infested shit-buckets” are also Chrome and all the chromium poop cups, even more so one might say.

Not disagreeing, especially with the sad sentiment of what’s happening at Mozilla, just trying to keep in mind the other 95% of the browser picture.