@0x4E4F @imgel then why comment?

@NegativeLookBehind @cujo @BitingChaos some people don’t have much choice. Their jobs demand it. At least in Linux you’d be able to really sandbox them and route them through filters to prevent spying if you know what you’re doing.

@HumanPerson @s20

I think you'll be happy with the management tools in OpenSuSE They literally make almost everything simple to set up, from a GUI perspective, and if you actually know what you're doing, it will make your day so much less stressful.

@Franzia @SpacePirate Don't hate it, learn it!

@Roderik @joojmachine what’s the obsession with bloat?

@Carter @H2207 You don’t really have to tinker with any distro. Once you set it up just let it be with a schedule of updates that fits your usecase. If you feel compelled to constantly update and rejigger, that’s you, not the distro. I have a Mankato machine that has been sitting for a couple of years with monthly security updates.

@christos @geoma

I really like Pardus.

@halm @pineapplelover

What is it about flatpaks that bothers you? I am curious. My experience with them is good, except that are sometimes slower to launch.

@stevedidWHAT @iortega Your best bet is to use a distro that allows you to choose everything you install (at least your desktop experiences) so that you can install the lightest DE/WM you can. I would suggest something like CachyOS or Reborn, that have choosers and then choose something like openbox. Archcraft is also quite nice and light. I run it on an old machine and it runs beautifully.

@FQQD @p_q if you want that hardware to support something the manufacturer will not support, open source bios can be useful.

@GravitySpoiled @notTheCat

Or, even better, use containers to have access to whatever distro/packaging system you want, like Vanilla OS does.

@bitahcold @utopiah

If you're going to distro hop, do it, don't let people tell you you're wrong. I've learned how to set up and use a variety of Linux and BSD systems by distro hopping. But, I think maybe you should set up one system that is solid and then distro hop in virtual machines using VirtualBox. It works well and often can handle things like Haiku and Amiga type OSes as well. Just for fun, of course.

@Static_Rocket @zShxck for a second there I thought he was revealing his favored sexual positions

@zelifcam @chevy9294 I’ve become a fan. I’m not a coder or anything, and I have been able to navigate its package management easily enough. The manual could be made a bit simpler/clearer, but the system itself is not hard to manage.

I’ve been meaning to figure out if I can set up the system and then generate a new configuration file based on what I installed using nix-env

@Blizzard @American_Jesus lol love that

@jsnc @JuxtaposedJaguar that seems a bit too “zealot” to me. And viable competitor is exactly the right phrase to use, or am I mistaken in thinking I use Linux instead of HURD?

@mihnt @Zeus I loved gnome until the whole Apple-like attitude toward theming.

@MigratingtoLemmy @I_like_cats I wondered about that, but to me it just feels like an isolated file system based app structure, kinda like the .app folders in Macs. Does that sound right?

And with permissions, you can stop the app from accessing anything outside of its specific little file system.

@Roderik I think I was more asking people in general. It’s like “bloat” is a new trendy word. No /s needed. Like you, I think people should use whatever they like most.

@airikr @sjosjo personally, I prefer Nemo for one reason, it will start in two pane mode. Thunar does not.