Your house is not delivered with documentation for the wiring

Contact whoever sold you the house - it should come with a full mapping of electric, water and heating systems.

What’s wrong with MIT?

Enjoy the ride! :)

Oh! You might find this useful. It’s a list of various setting changes/fixes I made after switching and encountering various issues, or annoyances. Some of these were under Kubuntu, most are under Garuda, but I don’t think anything in there is distro-specific, so it should work on both Debian-based and Arch-based.

If you’ve never installed Linux before, I would start with something user-friendly, like Kubuntu or Bazzite. Both come with KDE as their main Desktop Environment (“DE”), so you could do what OP did looks-wise.

If you’re a technical user, and don’t hate having to sometimes do things manually, try Garuda Linux - it’s Arch-based, but catered very towards Linux newbies and does a lot of hand-holding. I use it and I enjoy it very much.

To specifically do what OP did with his DE - KDE comes with the concept of Panels and Widgets. The top bar you see in the screenshot is a Panel. On it, there are (from right to left) the System Tray widget, a Spacer widget, a Digital Clock widget with customised display format (something you can do in the settings of the widget), another Spacer, an Icons-Only Task Manager widget (displays active applications and lets you pin applications - like the Taskbar in Windows or Dock in macOS), and finally the Application Launcher widget (the Start menu equivalent). Everything is pretty heavily customised (presumably with Panel Colorizer? Not sure), so that - out of the box - even with this exact setup copied, yours would look slightly different.

The only reason they decided to obfuscate the use of Claude was due to the community starting wars and sending them death threats over it. Nobody is downplaying anything, they literally stated that they did that because managing shit-tier Issues that were all basically “why use AI” was becoming too damaging to the project.

Mate, it’s an optional field on your local OS. If a paedo has access to this, it also means they have access to everything else, so there are plenty other opportunities for them to check whether or not they’re interested in you.

This is nonsense. Do you feel like having a “user name” field brings “real ID one step closer”? Just don’t fill that field or enter some bogus data - nobody is checking this.

It has very nearly got a majority several times. I’m sure that with some media manipulation (eg milking an incident) it will be easily pushed through.

“Several times”? There were two votes to date.

The only “majority” we’ve been hearing about were the “these governments support this idea” maps, which have minimal bearing on how the EU Parliament actually votes.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

How is Flatpak broken? I’m using it constantly and it… just works?

Wouldn’t an immutable OS be overall a pretty good idea for a stable server?

Then configure vim using emacs

I still consider myself to be primarily a Windows user (I can actually properly troubleshoot stuff there), but I have dabbed in Linux many times over the years. I’m using Garuda for about a year now and I’m super happy with it.

As for other distros - I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Tuxedo OS (basically re-branded Kubuntu, specialised for Tuxedo Computers), Fedora, PopOS, and probably a bunch of others I’m forgetting.

Garuda gave me the most “just works out of the box” experience to date.

Don’t get me wrong - there was still a bunch of things I had to do to get the experience I truly liked, but it gave me the fewest and the least annoying surprises so far.

As for things it lacks - if you get the “Dragonized” edition, you end up with a fairly heavy KDE, and some… questionable default theme choices. I’m running the Garuda Mokka, and I think it just looks super pretty out of the box. I disabled a couple of Window Decorations, but even out of the box it wasn’t anything super over the top. You can also always switch to one of the classic KDE themes, like Breeze.

This was my first foray into Arch, so I can’t tell you if it “breaks” anything someone experienced with Arch would be annoyed about.

Fair enough.

I used it on a secondary laptop for a while. I agree that it looks promising, their “Spotlight” equivalent is great, much better than KDE’s default.

TBF, I think the majority of “people who play games” play them on their phones these days, and PC gaming is not that big of a percentage.

what’s the benefit of using a “gaming” distro

User of Garuda Linux here.

The distro comes with an installer that asked me if I want to install Lutris, Steam, Heroic Games Launcher and the AMD drivers. Asked me about my browser preferences, including Vivaldi, which I actually use. It also took care of installing Wine and Proton GE for me, I just had to select them from a list.

It also includes a Garuda Toolbox application which is a general “I don’t understand Arch but need to do maintenance” kind of software. You hop in, drop tasks into a queue (things like checking for updates, clearing orphans, merging .pacnew, etc., etc.), and then it handles executing them all in the appropriate order after just a single root password prompt.

What’s wrong with Popos?

OOTL. What happened with Ladybird?

I always preferred the version where please="sudo !!", but I recently tried setting it up and couldn’t get it to work on fish, sadly.

I explained my position multiple times. You never countered these arguments, you just went “nuh uh!”

I see you don’t have any further arguments to add since this devolved into a “no u” back and forth. EOT, I guess.