Fedora/Nobara.

Blame Baloo. It’s always Baloo.

I always thought the more developers you added the higher the likelihood of stalling.

Good. Redhat seemed like it was going the other direction given it’s dropping of Plasma from the RHEL packages. They certainly support Gnome with money and developers, maybe we’ll see some of that support extend to KDE going forward.

You might want to look at BlendOS. It’s not up to NixOS’s level of complexity, but it gets you atomic rollbacks. It might meet your time constraints better than the learning curve on NixOS.

Having pulled a toilet out to fix something more than once, the bathtub is exactly where you want to put it while you work.

Burn Snap out of there and I’m in.

Edit: looks like they’re not putting much towards snaps, it’s mostly Flatpak and systemd-sysext. I’m good with that.

Plasma.

When I try Gnome, within a couple minutes I encounter the Save dialog that defaults the cursor to the Search field instead of the Filename field, and the top of my head goes spinning across the room, and I uninstall it.

The ease of updating and installing new software is starting to get me down. I’ve started hiring a neighbor to come over and slap me across the face for minor updates, and vigorously kick me in the balls when I do a full version upgrade.

Carry it printed on a sign behind your back until he pops up, then whip it out after the first question. Then walk away after he’s read it, while conspicuously taking handwritten notes and looking back over your shoulder.

You forgot -XNG

I see what my friends have with their kids and grandkids now, and really wish I had people that care for me that much. Honestly, it’s kinda gotten to where I don’t want to go to events because it just reminds me of how that chance is lost now.

I wish we had. I’m regretting it more as I get older.

If you’re on Mint still, that’s X11 fucking you over. AFAIK, Mint hasn’t moved to Wayland, though you might be able to install an experimental session, but I wouldn’t trust it like a distro that’s all-in on Wayland.

I used to contend with monitors jumping around like a jack russell terrier with X11, never keeping settings, dropping out due to ACPI. Wayland has fixed pretty much everything I had going wrong with that stuff.

Boot a live USB of some distros that default to Wayland like Fedora, and see how it reacts to screensaving, then make some choices from there.

Afaik, Maalit is bundled with Plasma Wayland already. It’s there in Virtual Keyboards for me on Nobara, though I don’t have a touch device available to test it right now.

That might be a problem with Kubuntu. It’s been a while since I tested Kubuntu, but the last time I tried it a few years ago, it was a trainwreck.

“Oftentimes”

Its always interchangeable with Often. Just use Often.

Using “u”.

Plus a lot of these bugs don’t get fixed, because they exist to allow the processors to “look ahead” for improved performance, at least on unmitigated benchmark tests.

Man, I wish that were the case. I’ve been having a hell of a time with Brother drivers for the last couple years, on various distros. I’ve always highly recommended Brother since they’ve never pulled HP bullshit, but it’s hard to recommend a printer where the driver won’t respect Portrait vs. Landscape settings 90% of the time.

Other than printing, it goes well because they know if they were on Windows or Mac, I’ll have nothing to do with it.