Step 1. Replace plasma for something lighter like xfce or wayfire with all the fancier effects disabled

Step 2. GZDoom mods.

Ah I wouldn’t know about THAT. I just download and convert epubs from the likes of z-library/libgen, and have done so since getting my first Kindle circa 2012

What for? Cuz loading pirated books is trivial?

Only if you want to synch reading progress between multiple devices.

Now, now. Cinnamon is a perfectly competent DE. Gets out of the way. Does what it’s supposed to.

Let us not treat it like it is Gnome.

Let’s be honest here

I like Linux as much as the next guy

… But a violent kick to the 'nards is still more pleasant than Windows 11, so this is a “Luigi Wins By Doing Absolutely Nothing” scenario.

batcat

It’s like cat but better. Great for when you just want to look at the contents of a file, without loading a whole text editor.

Oh also, tldr

My procedure for learning how to use a cli command goes tldr page -> --help if the tldr fails to help me -> THEN the full manpage

Thank you.

No keep going, I like what you’re cooking.

Those newfangled immutable distros might benefit them, since they’re unlikely to want to or care about modification, and it’s extra security.

Set up the web browser with a strong ad-blocker, maybe whitelisting YouTube since non-techy people are unlikely to know what to do if youtube throws up a stink about the adblocker.

Set up auto-updates maybe. For safety and such.

Otherwise make sure it looks like a dead ringer for whatever they are already used to (usually Windows) – Same background, icons in the same places and looking similar if not the same, panels set up the same way, etc. – This is easier with Cinnamon or KDE Plasma. Gnome… Even if you like it, it’s too different, yanno? Unless they’re coming from Mac, and even then it’s not the same.

P.S.: Lovely background of a gay bird prince. <3

Yes

It’s actually a really fun cartoon.

Linux: you’ve been using it for years and don’t even know it

MS word, Telegram, Notepad++.

Exactly that. It acts like the hand tool in a pdf reader, mouse has to keep moving.

The Firefox one is enabled already. I don’t do Chrome(ium) unless I absolutely have no choice.

… But yeah I’d like to enable it for other applications. Dunno if it is possible though.

I actually have one of those Logi mice with unlockable scrollwheels

… I only lock it for playing FPSes, to use the wheel to switch weapons. Otherwise it stays unlocked for minimal resistance.

Call it a reverse curb-cut effect, I first discovered it when I was a teenager, and back then I’d sometimes use it out of laziness or because it was quicker (ah how I miss being young and immune to pain)

Then when time happened and I started having arthritis flareups, it was there to help me, and I was like “heck, that’s a neat thing for accessibility”

Eh?

I don’t paste things as often as I scroll. Plus, my brain associates copying and pasting with the keyboard commands, from 20+ years of doing – That.

Edit-to-answer-your-edit: My mouse has 7 buttons, I’m golden.

Not quite what I was hoping for… But it does help.

Having that on Firefox is already quite the game changer. I just had no idea it was there. Thanks.