They are using the wrong kind of Linux! My kind of Linux is superior, because it’s broken in a different way and more difficult than yours.

Easier to dominate.

This is very bad advice for cold weather.

Washing hands is overrated. It only leads to a weaker immune system.

This opium-cannabis-arsenic tincture will make you feel much better in no time.

Sure. Lots of fiction, especially TV stick to well established tropes, regardless of a human writing it or not.

Best of both worlds:

• install boring stable distro
• use Homebrew to install bleeding edge stuff, separately from the base system.

You can improve the novel writing by using agents. First you generate just an outline with the plot points to every chapter. Then you chop that up and feed it to several agents to flesh out individual chapters. Finally the generated chapters are verified against the outline and overall plot. If that doesn’t fit, the agents are tasked with a rewrite. Repeat that until you have something serviceable.

As you point out, there exists plenty of bad writing in TV series. These often have a number of different authors, who don’t necessarily know the other episodes very well.

Distros might package some stuff for you, yes.

Most window managers come with no GUI apps. They don’t even have a launcher (start menu), status bar, notification area, wifi menu, task bar, dock, etc.

For most window managers you pick and choose a shell, launcher, etc, to combine it with. Then you configure all those separate tools and the window manager to your liking

There are preconfigured packages, distros, and scripts that make sensible choices for this already. Even they usually don’t bring a lot of applications with them.

Omarchy brings a lot of applications in their default install. Check out this uninstall script to get an idea. KDEnlive is a KDE application, gnome-calculator, nautilus, gnome-diskutil, gnome-keyring are GNOME. Chromium is GTK too, I actually don’t know if LibreOffice is. So not many I would dare say. Others ship less.

Dank Linux, a full features shell for Niri, Wayland, mangowc describes it pretty well.

Batteries Included

The age of assembling your desktop from dozens of separate tools and spending hours trying to make it feel cohesive is over. While traditional Wayland setups require you to hunt down, configure, and maintain a sprawling collection of utilities, Dank Linux delivers everything in one cohesive package with minimal dependencies.

The Traditional Way: Package Hunting Simulator

A typical Hyprland, niri, Sway, MangoWC, dwl, labwc, Miracle WM, or generic Wayland setup forces you to learn about and configure a dozen or more separate tools, such as:

• Status Bar: waybar, eww, or custom scripts
• Notifications: mako, swaync, or dunst
• App Launcher: rofi, wofi, fuzzel, or tofi
• Screen Locking: swaylock, hyprlock, or gtklock
• Idle Management: swayidle, hypridle
• System Tools: htop, btop, nm-applet, blueman, pavucontrol
• Audio Control: pavucontrol, pamixer scripts
• Brightness Control: brightnessctl with custom bindings
• Clipboard Manager: clipman, cliphist, or wl-clipboard scripts
• Wallpaper Management: swaybg, swww, hyprpaper, or wpaperd
• Theming: manually configuring gtk, qt, various apps, bars, compositor gaps and colors
• Power Management: custom scripts or additional daemons
• Greeter: gdm, sddm, lightdm, greetd

Each tool has its own configuration format, its own quirks, and its own dependencies. You’ll spend hours writing glue scripts, debugging integration issues, and discovering missing functionality at the worst possible moments.

How is MATE nowadays? Is it just Gnome 2 frozen in time or does it have modern features?

I also liked GNOME 2 a lot. Current GNOME is okay for what it is, but it feels too dumbed down for my tastes. For example the default editor has basically no features compared to gedit back in the day. The desktop is kind of nice on a laptop with a good touchpad and gestures though.

Good system. I really like the practical call to action.

• must watch
• watch
• don’t watch

You could even extend it with half stars to a 6 star system equivalent.

Lots of rating systems gain an inflation of the hightest grades.

Du kannst dem Algorithmus doch easy beibringen wa du sehen willst. Bei jedem Post kannst du liken oder sagen „will ich nicht sehen“.

Wenn du Brüste, Politik und Katzen bekommst, dann weil du das sehen willst.

Ich bekomme keine dieser drei Dinge zu sehen.

Ich hatte nie Facebook und habe mich lange verweigert Social Media zu verwenden.

Seit zwei Jahren habe ich Instagram und es hat mein Leben enorm bereichert. Soziale Beziehungen, nützliche Inhalte, Veranstaltungen, sogar beruflich und finanziell hat es sich gelohnt. Dabei nutze ich es nur wenig.

Im Nachhinein denke ich mir, ich weiß gar nicht was ich alles verpasst habe die letzten 20 Jahre oder so, nur weil ich Soziale Netzwerke gemieden habe.

The cranky unhappy politics wonk endlessly droning on about the evils of the world are a drain on everyone else’s joy.