I don’t hate flatpaks, but flatpaks require more disk space than the same apps from traditional repositories, and they only support a handful of the most common default themes. Since I only ever use older and slower computers, my disk space is limited, and I like to rice my desktop, I personally avoid them. But your use-case may differ.

Thank you for providing an actual answer. Most of the comments in this thread are condescending as hell.

This is a popular opinion outside of Lemmy. You won’t find many lowercase “l” libertarians here though.

How important is the Windows-style desktop? If the VM is designed for one thing and one thing only, I’d pick any minimal WM that can alt-tab, say JWM, and then just add Firefox and Thunderbird to the autostart file.

Either scalloped with cheese, boiled in chicken broth until the broth boils off and the potatoes are basically already mashed for you, or my laptop.

I’m shocked Lemmy has so many users. Feels like only a few thousand.

Wait, most people agree that Walter starts off as a decent man?

Untitled Goose Game got a sequel?

Mint, and anything else that requires PPAs. Last time I distrohopped, I had a rule that if I couldn’t install Librewolf in under a minute or two, it wasn’t worth the trouble.

Mind you, this was before flatpaks were big, but I also own a potato and don’t want to waste space on flatpaks.

Sometimes you can literally just go to the youtube invidious channel of a professor at a big name college, if it’s the kind of topic where a lecture series alone can provide the education you’re looking for.

Honestly, I’m just glad you can feel comfortable enough on Lemmy to post something like that. Fuck you, and let’s be friends.

You mean the forward party? “No Labels” is something different.

Edit: No Labels do market themselves as “moderate” though. But from what I’ve seen, it’s more of a “corporations’ dystopian version of bipartisanship” moderate rather than “roughly middle-ground views of average Americans” moderate.

Third party. I sincerely believe the threat of Trump is completely and utterly overblown (compared to any random neocon), and I don’t care about blue tribal rage. This election isn’t “too important” to vote for someone you’d actually want; that’s the argument literally every time, and it’s still not true. Until a major party earns my vote, I’ll spend it wherever I please.

I’ve never dived into this, but if electronic keyboards are just glorified midi-controllers, I’d have to think you could find a FOSS solution. If they’re not simply midi-controllers, I wouldn’t begin to know. I’d imagine you might have an easier time with keyboards from the 90s or whenever.

Pittsburgh is geographically midwest as well. The Appalachians were the historical eastern border of the Midwest.

The Appalachians were historically the eastern boundary of the “midwest”. Considering that western PA is to the west of the Appalachians, those Pennsylvanians may, in fact, be correct.

You can skip this comment if you’re avoiding anything arch-based; I don’t have any additional distro suggestions beyond what’s already listed (they really are mostly the same), but in regard to the arch-based suggestions, I would only add that you can reduce the maintenance by choosing a DE with a slower update cycle (e.g. XFCE or any WM) and, more importantly, remembering that you don’t actually have to update your system every day. Even once a month is probably fine. I don’t get the impression you want vanilla Arch though; Endeavor or even Manjaro minimal will have the defaults you’re looking for, or literally any other non-Arch distro if the AUR isn’t important to you.

Adults are worse at passive learning than kids, but focused learning works just fine. You’re probably better off buying/pirating something like rosetta stone than you are watching sitcoms.

A GUI to build these EWWidgets I suck at making. The only reason I’m using them is the fancy animations, otherwise xfce4-panel or tint2 would be fine.

You’re on Lemmy. Lemmy hates Brendan Eich. Take the top comments with a grain of salt.