The logo needs work. I read that as Syncoin and had a repulse reaction.

My feeling on this is that or the “general public desktop” use case we have to defer to corporate supported distros (RedHat, Ubuntu, Suse), because they have to work with hardware vendors that are typically averse to the idea of sharing driver code, and you have to make sure your desktop runs smoothly on your average PC.

I don’t see it happening, honestly.

Exactly. I need Debian, Alpine, Manjaro, OpenWRT, MoOde Audio Player, Lakka and SteamOS.

They all serve different use cases. That’s the beauty of it, the utter flexibility to turn it into whatever you need because you can.

I’ve seen this opinion voiced quite a few times for the last 28 or so years I’ve been a Linux user.

Guess what? It’s free and open source software. People work on what they feel like when they feel like if they feel like. You can’t mandate “let’s just have a couple of distros, think of the public!”. It doesn’t work like that. Yes, life is not perfect.

Thank you, I’ll give it another try.

I stopped playing because it is a bit too hard for me. I keep getting killed by spiders. Maybe I’ll give it another go.

Do we? Who’s we?

It runs perfectly on a ZX Spectrum Next, and is quite impressive.

I feel the same, I know that things will likely go downhill if he goes. That’s why I also buy GoG games, I want to be able to download them if things go sour with Steam.

Ok, ok, you win. I’ve signed it.

I will, I just have too much on my plate at the moment.

Don’t assume game preservation is something that I don’t value.

You can have mine. There, I upvoted his comment for you.

You are right about that.

True, but you do have to prioritize your battles.

I repeat: I understand the importance of preserving our digital legacy.

I understand the value of preserving our digital heritage (hell, I still play games from 1982 and share the love for them with millennials), but we do have some other issues to worry about in southern Europe.

smaller pool of desktop users

There, I fixed it for you.

This is about desktop Linux, so I was wrong to correct you. My bad.

Another vote for PiHole. It keeps your home network cleaner by ignoring the ads.

Terminator is my weapon of choice. Supports tabs, multiple terminals per tab, multiple terminal input and a lot of other neat stuff.

My Manjaro desktop already migrated.

I decided to install Plasma next to XFCE to see if I liked it. Then I thought I might as well try Wayland too.

Turns out the combo works great, even with games and Steam, so I’m quite happy with it.

Oh no, my desktop is fried!

1. Create a new user.
2. Login as new user.
3. Copy your old files over.
5. Profit.