MrBubbles96

That's cool and all, but this person is (I'm assuming) new-ish to Linux and hasn't developed their opinion on "what distro/DE/way of doing things works for me" and "what do I want/don't want in my system", which IMO is extremely important because...it's their system, and what works for you (Gnome + Arch) might not jive well with em. That's the beauty of Linux: it's up to the user to do as they will. Maybe let them get their feet wet first before throwing something that needs to be babysat and occasionally maintained at them as a better option, just saying.

Also, that Arch has "the superior package management system" is an opinion, not a hard fact.

Could be just them sharing the wiki with em (which is a great companion to ANY Linux Distro. Arch or non-Arch, a lotta the stuff there can be very helpful), but...feel like it's a bit early to be doing that IMO. "Start em young" and all that, sure, but also let them learn, fail, and get into messes themselves first, ya know

1. welcome to Linux. yer a Penguin now, Harry! Yeah, I remember the whole "kid in a candy shop" feeling I got when I first started lol

2. hope you have better luck with your Dell than i did. Treated mine like a baby, and suddenly? The shell around the screen and board cracked. Ya think repairing it would be easy/cheap, but alas, somehow....(not trying scare you just, becareful with it, cheap or no)

Me with my homies, but I'm not drunk most of the time.

Gotta spread that (aggressive) positivity, ya know?

IDK, if both my very-much-not-so tech savy siblings, mother, and even an idiot like myself can all pick up and use it with very few, if any, hiccups, then "user expierence" on Linux is...

Not hard. Or, well, in general as well. The more I hear people go "Learning Linux is hard" and hear them out, the more I've come to realize they're actually trying to say "Unlearning Windows is hard". Which is absolutely true, considering 95% of people use Windows basically out the womb...and then they keep using it/put up with it no matter what unless you're like one of my old professors who didn't "need windows" for his work (and used Mac all the way), or like me and several others who got tired of Windows constantly messing up on me--or being invasive of your privacy, bloated, all of the above. Take your pick--enough where I just said "you know what, no. I have options besides basically throwing dice at the wall with this. They can't be that bad." (spoiler alert: they weren't bad at all).

And again, unless you're throwing yourself off the Linux deep end from second one and trying to build the system from scratch or compile Gentoo by yourself, learning it isn't this grueling, impossible task. Plus there's free resourses that can make it even simpler for you if you want to more than learn as you go. There's growing pains, yeah, but no different than learning anything new in life

Gotta disagree. Even with following a handful Linux groups on here, there's several other topics and discussions that quickly dominate my feed, from games, to music, books and comics, to pets doing adorable things, to anime, and TTRPG stuff (...and Star Trek. Now that's something i can't seem to escape on The Fediverse and makes me feel just a tiny bit left out because I'm not really into lol). Then again, it's up to you what you see since the user is in full control of what they allow or block in thier feed.

So curate until you barely see any Linux, if that's what ya fancy.

If you don't mind me asking, was it because of the vanilla look, the customization being based on extensions (which may or may be updated for a while when a new version releases--if at all), or was it the Gnome philosophy of "One Window per workspace"?

Just curious really, I'm more of an XFCE and KDE user myself, and i can see the appeal of Gnome (and I'm NGL, it looks nice IMHO), but yeah...not a big fan of extensions breaking every version update and the "throw unused Windows in a new workspace" thing

I kinda getcha. Design-wise, you could get a very close copy (but I don't think 1:1. Never tried it tbf), but if we take the workflow into account, yeah it won't be 100% the same (also, QT apps can be a turnoff depending on the person)

I mean, can't you just make KDE plasma have the Gnome look, or...basically any look you want?

As strange as the idea of regulations needing to come to the rescue might be to some, that's a decent way for it to go....seriously, so many problems we deal with on the daily just need a bit of regulations for them to not be as out of control as they are (because, as you said, a LOT of people are stupid/ignorant. Or are taking advantage of said people). Now, this just needs to get as bad as lootboxes--which, IMO, it's practically there, but maybe it needs to get worse, god forbid--for a legislator to look this way.

You'd have to convince the diehards, casuals, and especially the ones that are willing (regardless of being able to) to spend money on whatever the company throws their way of this. Way, waaaay easier said than done, unfortunately.

Can't speak for everyone else, but due to the company's track record, i didn't even look at Halo Infinite's direction since it was announced. Then again, as soon as I heard the multiplayer was Free to Play and seperate from the campaign, yeah...not surprised they pulled something like this.

"No."

--Withers, most likely