this is the way

xubuntu. stable and apps are reasonably up to date. i'll probably switch to mint with the whole snaps thing though. fedora is the one distro i never tried in my distro hopping phase though so...

yeah i just read this post header, carried on scrolling, clicked another, and got sent to a sports post. i wouldn't mind knowing how this bug can manifest itself in such an oddly specific way, but only if it can be done in say, a character limit of 300-500 characters.

well, i eschewed motion plugins for so long, but i recently installed easy motion, to quote "maybe use it minimally so i don't have to change my work flow too much". i pretty much gave up using w, e, b and f within a day of installing it, replacing each of them with a more efficient reach for the same number of key presses. similar situation with ultisnips, thinking it'd be overkill for my needs. these both work really well with opening zsh commands in $editor too.

according to the site, 2ghz cpu and 4gb ram is recommended. if you're running lower specs than that i'd probably suggest something with xfce, which will be less demanding but still look and feel relatively modern. some good (imo) xfce distros are xubuntu, linux mint xfce, or peppermint, if you need a 32 bit iso.

i'm currently using xubuntu on a thinkpad t430 with 3ghz i5 cpu and 4gb of ram and it runs really well.

this run on xubuntu i think. when i first switched to mint (xfce) a few years back i'd reinstall every month or so because i broke something, yes with enough misguided tinkering linux mint can be broken. then i'd spend a week-month on other distros, mx linux, peppermint, all the ubuntus, then manjaro that got me on to minimal installs, then arch btw, then endeavour, with my own awesome or openbox config. i thought i'd settled down for 6 months or so, but the threat of a bad package was always there (even though it never happened). when i got my latest laptop i installed mint again, with my openbox config. after a while i started noticing things weren't running quite right, so i just thought "instead of changing everything, just change what i need to" and went with xub for slightly more up to date repos. turns out i can get pretty much all the functionality i had with openbox out of xfce. so i've managed to stay on one install for about 18 months!

one that might play better in northern england for me - an ironic "let's 'av it". not the full on "LET'S 'AV ITTTTTTTTTTT woo" just a dead pan 'right, let's 'av it, eh?'

manjaro was my way in to arch. i used the fully configured xfce version, then several versions of the minimal install until i got something i liked, and didn't break after a couple of weeks.

if you were to ask me for a recommendation on an arch based distro i'd say endeavour, but manjaro is perfectly fine.

ahh thanks, i was wondering just how "minimal" minimal was. i was expecting something like endeavour - a configured OS but around 1500 packages. so i really appreciate that warning haha. ok better start making my list.

i hopped from arch/wm to xub too. tbh everything i learned from setting up awesome, qtile, open box etc helped me get really into the functionality of xfwm and make it really work for me. it's a little sluggish, but only compared to a completely bare bones wm. the distro hopping phase was a valuable learning experience, but i think this is a perfectly fine place to settle down.

i've been curious about the minimal edition. now that i've found replacements and workarounds in the ubuntu repos, i've been wanted to do a fresh install with that. i've got ~3100 packages just from trying stuff out and forgetting to uninstall it haha.

yeah that one annoyed me especially as the only reason netflix ever made money was because they won the war of convenience against torrent sites.

my expectations weren't very high, given how the twitter exodus played out, seeing some of the people who made very bold statements about never coming back... coming back... and subscribing to twitter blue.

you're never going to take down a giant like reddit, or twitter, or facebook, or whatever, in one swift blow. they're probably going to get through this. and your average social media user doesn't want to bring down the status quo, they just want to look at funny pictures of dogs. and that's fine. the real victory to be had is showing people that things can be done differently. enough people will stay on fedi servers to keep a community going, and by the time the next bunch of disgruntled posters come along there will be more content to keep them engaged

always nice to see peppermint rices. very underrated distro imo.

ah, this is mostly from my gtk theme, but now that i just remembered i did do a little bit of tinkering. i can't remember if there was anything else i needed to do, but i know that i needed to save this to .config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css. this gives the rounded edges, and corrects the foreground/background colours. i can't remember what it looked like originally but very few gtk themes actually matched well with the bar.

.xfce4-panel widget grid button.flat.toggle:checked
{
color: black;
border-radius: 10px;
}
.xfce4-panel widget grid button.flat.toggle:hover
{
color: black;
background-color: lightgrey;
border-radius: 10px;
}
.xfce4-panel .tasklist .toggle:checked
{
color: black;
border-radius: 10px;
}
.xfce4-panel .tasklist .toggle:hover
{
color: black;
background-color: lightgrey;
border-radius: 10px;
}

just the standard xfce one

i vote sub lemmies, because i too keep catching myself say subreddits spits

don't tell anybody but i'm still doing tweets on mastodon.

my kitty.conf is nothing special but i did take advantage of the dynamic opacity setting. the kitty config is probably the most straight forward and well thought-out config i've ever used.

glad to help. i've had all the same worries myself. it's different, and far from perfect, but the average user is more empowered in where exactly that line is drawn.

the torrent analogy is pretty good actually, ISPs can block certain connections so a good chunk of users miss out on the swarm, and the swarm misses out on them. where federation differs from choosing an ISP is it's far easier to switch your provider to this service than it is an ISP.

and where a given instance draws the line on censorship isn't the be all and end all of whether other instances federate with them. as i see it, though my understanding of this comes from mastodon, even if one server decides to properly block another, a third server might chose to limit instead, if at all. there are block lists but that requires a very obvious and widely shared red line on freedom of expression, where there are very few places on the open web where you'll see less censorship than that.

in the end, wherever a given instance draws the line, is far more democratic than other social media sites. it's easier to think that twitter, or reddit, or facebook, is more accountable, because there's at least one guy everybody can point to to blame when something goes wrong, and sure, there'd be something in that, if the scrutiny they get actually changed anything.