MonkeMischief

Yes! Great way of putting it. It's hard to explain how just using an OS can be a fun hobby in itself.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed does it all for me. I work and play games on it and stuff, but my laptop is less mission critical, so I run EndeavourOS on it and experiment with fun layouts and everything is all "frutiger-aero-esque". It feels like how I nostalgicallyremember those WinXP-7 days!

Snapper rollbacks with BTRFS are incredible for letting you play around with an OS you actually use, and still giving you a cushion to fall back on. :D

My little media streamer / guest PC has Mint. Nice, maybe a little boring, predictable, reliable. Ahhh simplicity. :)

That's what I was thinking!

Yeh yeh, I get it, Lemmy, we're all wageslaves now and religion is Absolutely Always Bad(TM) /s...but objectively here...

Things like churches and temples were for everyone to commune and worship and gather. They were, and still are, architectural marvels!

Any of us would be so lucky these days to feel any kind of attachment to our community, and to do some kind of work that we can look at and say "That's there because of us."

It's hard for most of us to imagine, I think, because alienation from the results of our labor and each other is so wildly beyond reason in our lifetimes. Even building is essentially factory work anymore. Architecture as art is mostly dead in favor of brutalist templated concrete cubes everywhere.

Not to mention, we're all constantly burned out and exhausted from meaningless grinds that usually amount to "Have a pulse (optional), deal with people, send emails to nowhere in particular. Produce nothing but Co2."

But I like to think this was a positive thing. Building wonders, being a part of your community, having something to be proud of doing, like a collective hobby.

Lol I know I'm waxing romantically whilst likely being very inaccurate, I'm not historian, but I also think we can take the best notions of the past to make the future less awful...

True! It was then technically named after a meme...which the coin named itself after, as it was supposed to be a "meme coin".

Still stands though.

"Government agency named after meme. Such dumb. So chaos. Woooooow." Lol

"suicide drones"

... Hey guys I think they just unlocked... "missiles". 😬

To everyone down voting and assuming this is ragebait, I would ask we take a step back. I think this is a genuine question and I can't help but feel a bit heard that someone is asking it.

In the midst of all this ridiculous culture-warring, creators have a ton of anxiety now. It's one thing to be afraid your creation will get you laughed at for being cringey, (as if that's not a huge barrier already).

But it's another entirely when it feels like in this era of "all art is political", writing anyone who has recognizable human qualities will forcibly put you, the creator, into some ideological category where you'll be scrutinized and judged personally based on your work's perceived "agenda."

The right with their relentless "woke-hunting", the left with their "purity tests" to blame you for not championing their particular social cause. Showing your art seems to inevitably involve chumming the waters to the terminally online. This can also produce anxieties of being doxxed or something if it's high profile enough.

That being said: My heart is warmed by all the overwhelmingly level headed responses in this thread. Seriously. It gives me hope.

Please notice I said FEELS a lot up there...Our perception is definitely muddied by how social media tends to megaphone the worst of society, and it tends to discourage us from being seen or interacting with others.

I'm glad threads like this demonstrate how genuine people can be. It provides quite a contrast.

While we're at it...

Don’t make life choices based on the opinion of ~~white~~ supremacists.

Now your great life advice is even more universally applicable! :D

Not shilling but this is exactly why 3rd party services like iDrive are good: Cloud backup but you have the choice of keeping your own encryption key.

Apple, M$, Google, are all like "just trust me bro BTW a big chunk of our business is data sales" lol

There's something that strikes me as fundamentally hilarious that "good with computers" in the Windows world means "disabling all of Windows' pushy services that rip control from the user and sell their data."

Like "I think I'm pretty good with computers!"

"Oh yeah? How much of Windows have you managed to sabotage so it stays out of your way?"

LMAO . It could be such a good OS but its dark and anti-patterns are truly bizarre.

Yeah, I still remember that ad where he irritatingly looks at the caveman ad in the airport.

Silly ad, but I thank them for introducing me to Röyksopp! :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02iwWCrXew

It's gonna have to be "Linux From Scratch" at this point....starting with the hardware.

This. Except if there were, jobs would just assume that was their time. I constantly have this wish that I could just enter some sort of "time stasis" space outside of "mainline time" that I could use just to read or play my game backlog or something, so I could actually bother with them. Lol...

Also OP, if you want pretty and Cinnamon can't do it for ya, you can always install KDE (my fav!) or GNOME or what have you right on top of your existing system.

Research before doing so! But it's possible. :)