Limerance

Local network effect is enough, even when it’s restricted to a specific demographic or subculture. Once a dating platform grabs a hold in a location and demographic, it can extend from there.

Of course to keep a project like this running, you need a way to pay for hosting and development.

The slight difference in looks isn’t what’s stopping people.

Gnome 3 seems to be designed for touch screens, but it rarely is used with one.

The distro matters because some have better defaults for one DE over another.

The downside of KDE is the millions of options and features. It can get in the way and makes it a little harder to learn.

That said. KDE is pretty great and currently my favorite.

Cute. Might buy and then play with it for an hour. Then put it with my other unused tiny computing devices.

Could be nice as a controller for something portable.

Depending on the Pi, you will be limited to USB2 speeds.

Developers need to eat, pay rent, etc.

Depending on the Pi, you are limited to USB 2 speeds for the external drive. That’s enough for many things, like streaming video, but doesn’t cut it for regular transfer of large files.

Probably your client‘s fault.

Mine is even animated.