Also an Arch and KDE user and have been intrigued by Aurora. I tried it on a parents laptop that was getting reformatted and unfortunately it ran really slow and choppy whereas Mint just worked. Curious if anyone else has experienced this.

I see your Loki is just a mischevious as ours 😹

I would totally play that

Here’s a decent list: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment#List_of_desktop_environments

Arch based list obvs so won’t include every single one but not too shabby.

Deepin was my long running DE for a while until they changed to be more windows like and I ditched it for budgie. Shortlived as it just wasn’t being maintained and updated enough for my liking. Moved to Pantheon for quite a while but it got annoying having to fix it breaking with updates. I ditched it and was going to go back once they released the distro agnostic version. I don’t know if that ever eventuated because I gave up waiting and have been happy with KDE for several years now.

Would be interested in this too. Only reason I stopped using Pantheon was because it got too annoying fixing it when it broke with updates and Elementary was behind on making it distro agnostic.

What else does one do with empty chocolate foil?

How old are you? I was a kid in the 1980s and most cats I knew as a kid lived till around 18. Oldest cat I can recall was 22. My spouse and I commented recently that it’s weird seeing so many people online these days thinking that a 12-14yo cat was old and wondered what the heck was going on that kitty lifespans have shortened so much from when we were kids (or our own cats). 🙀

I’m an ex web dev but I still maintain a few non-profit websites. It adds a much t my time load to make sure, what I sometimes a quite complicated system, mobile enabled. And even then it’s often more difficult to use a website with a lot of information or a necessarily complex store/booking system on a mobile phone or laptop. A larger screen with more screen real estate can make UX much nicer. But people have this perception that convenience or ease of access translates into easier to use. Hell even just using a keyboard n a desktop compared to a phone keyboard.

Heh, that box and version of Redhat was the first I tried Linux, as well as the same year - 1999 Cost me $110 brand new from a local stationary shop. Which was a lot for a poor student! Sadly didn’t last long as I just couldn’t get everything done in Linux as I could in Windows. And this was despite studying computing at the time.

Oh well 15 years later I tried again (Mint then Arch) and haven’t gone back to Windows since. 🎉

Same. I’ve played all the Civs. But I feel like the same issues with something like the Sims is creeping into the Civ franchise. The game has more features but somehow is less fun. I got into Humankind a little while ago and had loads of fun with that.

I’m a long time Arch user (10 years) and I love EndeavourOS + Pamac (from Manjaro) as a simple install that I can easily maintain on family members computers or on our Laptop if I’m feeling lazy.

I dunno, I was pretty stoked installing Arch almost a decade ago after my spouse surprised me with a brand new PC he built for my birthday. Was also stoked installing Arch, in more recent years, on the PC I built.

And I’ve been at my most miserable in life while being a Windows user 🫠

Have you tried switching Proton versions? Also check protondb.com as people will often post solutions in their reports.

For reference, this was the article I first read about this on: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bank-problems-reports-bnz-asb-kiwibank-anz-visa-paywave-services-down/R2EY42QKQBALXNF33G5PA6U3TQ/

WTF does someone’s spiritual beliefs and practices have to do with how well they are able to run an organisation? That’s an ad hominem argument. My country has a Christian prime minister at the moment but oh noes, I’m a non-religious hippy ‘witch’ so I guess our prime minister should step down because he believes in a pseudoscientific giant bearded man that lives in the sky and goes to an expensive building every week to speak magic words in unison with other cult members to call a special spirit to bless everyone that believe the exact same doctrines…

Pantheon desktop (Elementary OS)

I think you have to manually enable it (may depend on your distro/DE) but SDDM works fine with Wayland as it stands now.

Reminds me of my Windows XP days when I used to customise the hell out of everything I could… custom boot screen… and yes custom BSOD. Which I switched to red 🟥❗ One day my PC RSODs in front of a family member and he said, “Oh shit, that must be really bad if it’s red instead of blue!” 😂