• main thing to keep in mind is that a window manager is normally just one component of a desktop environment – full desktop environments like Gnome go to great lengths to assemble a whole fleet of apps to work together to make a cohesive experience
• if you’re going to forego the full desktop environment, then expect to have to fill in on the various missing pieces to suit your needs (file manager, terminal, text editor, clipboard manager, bar/panel/dock)
• if you just want lighter weight but maintain a cohesive experience, then Xfce or LXQt
• otherwise, there are a LOT of choices (both for X11 and for Wayland)
• tiling window managers
  • i3 on X or Sway on Wayland are probably the most popular
    • special mention: Regolith – pairs Sway on the front end with Gnome components underneath
  • dwm for the full do-it-yourself experience
  • awesome if you like Lua, xmonad if you like Haskell, exwm if you live in Emacs, Qtile if you like Python
• stacking window managers
  • Openbox for the old school feel, LabWC as the Wayland successor
  • IceWM and JWM for a minimal experience (both show up regularly on Raspberry Pi)
  • Motif for the retro enthusiast

• examples from professional recipes – measurements are given as weights (in grams) – no worrying about how much brown sugar in a “packed cup” or if your cup of flour has been sifted enough or what exactly is meant by a “cup of spinach”
• examples from baking recipes – measurements are given as percentages – allows easy scaling up and down

search for information when Google intentionally lies to you and hides results to keep you on their site looking at ads longer …

along those same lines, used Chromebooks – Google ends support after only a couple years so school districts all over the place are generally stuck with palettes of e-waste

with the majority here, I just use distro default / automatic setup in installer

LONG ago, I did the whole hand-crafted thing, obsessing over exactly how large each partition had to be, but with increasing speed and lowering prices of storage, this attention to detail now seems pretty irrelevant:

• hda split into /boot, /tmp, (swap), /, /opt, /usr, /var
• hdb split into (swap) and /home

free time

you and your tan-flagged Obama-syndicalism

(until they get a new lead dev, Ladybird is definitely not any type of “Good”)

“Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.”

• as a human: no
• as a computer: yes

“And I’ve had very little need for any kind of customization as the people behind my distro have pretty much seen to everything”

I think that’s one of the key points (and Nick kinda quickly passed over it) – the Linux desktop environments have constantly iterated over options and changes that customization at this point is more a matter of showing off rather than being a necessity to make things workable or usable

additionally Brodie Robertson did a video about Malibal banning countries back in October: Youtube, PeerTube

with one post, Malibal turned itself into a joke

• but corporate policy is to let IT handle updates
• but Windows doesn’t like being ignored so it bypasses group policy and auto-updates

original generation of COBOL programmers where expecting their programs to be replaced (or at least rewritten) within a decade or so – and then Y2K and we realized how much COBOL was still in the wild – and now a couple decades down the line, they’re still having problems trying to convince fintech to switch from COBOL to the new language of Java …

(out of the aid USAID sent overseas, $2 billion annually was crops purchased from American farmers …)

are you using Quad9 DNS?

(Catbox and Quad9 have an ongoing squabble – usually it’s just a matter of waiting for a day for things to clear up)

after MKUltra and COINTELPRO and Salvador Allende and who knows how much other crap our intelligence agencies have pulled …

there’s a whole world of alternative, small, or minimalist non-Chromium non-Firefox browsers out there I would love to try out – but in today’s world, if it doesn’t support at least the full un-crippled version of uBlock Origin, it’s a complete non-starter

(considering general trends, I’m just gonna have to sit down and setup PiHole aren’t I?)

Starblazers

we are talking Gnome devs here after all …