I still miss unity sometimes. The unified menu and the HUD/dash design, so well thought out

Oh this brings back so many memories from childhood. I used to spend hours with this software on an ancient core 2 duo machine!

Ooh, I really like this wallpaper!

I don’t really use helix, but rather emacs with evil mode. For me, the biggest impact came from actually just using it for my tasks. Of course one needs to know the syntax and the commands, but since you say you’ve done the tutorial, really just start using it for your text editing needs. Soon enough you’ll be flying!

As much as I agree with this sentiment, it somehow adds to the despair. At least for me, sometimes makes me wanna quit even more - as in what even is the point and bla bla

Me too. But sometimes I don’t even play video games

Very interesting of you to call gtk and qt legacy . Is this a common belief? I’m surprised to see this and never came across it before

Haha, nice! Happy to hear that! But sometimes it do be like that

I think this is somewhat of a known issue with Plasma 6. Happens intermittently to me as well. But seemingly the latest versions should have it fixed

Add to this, the constant badmouthing of GNU and FSF from the crony bootlickers and sadly this is what we get

The tech crowd is also more of a consumer kind these days than the hacky kind, so it’s much easier to push corporate shite with a little bit of polish on top

Aww, this is amazing. I had it on my tablet for a while, it’s good to something like that on the phone, too.

Now if only I could cull some of my dozens of open tabs

2025 is finally the year of the Linux desktop!

It’s not, because the space itself is expanding

Yay! They’ve done some excellent work. It’s an amazing piece of software. And has a rich history, too. Maybe this release is finally the kick I need to learn it better

It’s gonna trickle down. Any moment now…

So that’s why we have mobile phones

Yeah, it seems like these immutable distros with individually contained apps (maybe with some additional restrictions and hardening) are similar to what OP wants. There’s a lot of distros like this

Nix doesn’t really guarantee reproduciblity, though. It’s a neat idea for deterministic configurations. But bit by bit reproducible binary builds are an entire difference beast. GNU Guix has way more promise in that regard

It’s console servers all the way down (up?)

That should alleviate problems with sending your mails and them not being in the recipient’s spam folder. The problem with less common tlds is that some ancient forms don’t validate them as actual domains. But this has improved vastly in the last few years. I would say just try it out, it should be fine.