I still use linux on my home server, VPS, and in VMs that I spin up for various reasons.  It's phenomenal for many workloads, but desktop is not one of them.

-cthorpe (October 07, 2021, 11:47 AM)

Oh it's not all that bad :huh: - I very, very seldom switch over to my windows partition, and that's pretty much just to play No Man's Sky nothing to do with desktop discomfort :)

-allen (January 30, 2022, 11:09 PM)

Same here. There is a hot summer going on here in Paraguay and both my desktops started to turn themselves off as protection against heat. So I was forced to use my laptop, which runs: Pop!_OS (v20.04 (LTS or nothing!))

-Shades (January 31, 2022, 11:45 AM)

Oh Pop!_OS is a fun one! I played around with it for quite a while on partition 3. . . for long term usage, I'm pretty happily locked in to Manjaro. I just love the "rolling release" model!

Dismissing the Linux desktop out of hand is already not the case anymore for at least the last 2 or 3 years.

-Shades (January 31, 2022, 11:45 AM)

I agree, I dabbled from the late '90's onwards and it has come a long, long, long ways in terms of setup, general usability, and aesthetics. In most cases with normal-ish hardware, setup is a breeze, things just work and there are so many GOOD desktop environments to choose from, you can really land on the right desktop for you. I like it a lot better than cookie cutter Windows/Mac. (Of course there are advantages to the cookie cutter approach if that's what you're into!)

I missed that dropdown... good to know, thanks!

I like customizable short search syntaxes for browsers, the more the merrier. The description has some similarity with Yubnub https://yubnub.org/ , which I had almost forgotten exists.

-Nod5 (December 18, 2021, 01:08 PM)

Yes, similar idea indeex - but I didn't want to share the shortcut name space with the rest of the user base. And I wanted assurance of no tracking.