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- the big guns: Gnome or Plasma
- the middle tier: Xfce or LXQt
- the lightweights: tiling window managers (and there’s a LOT to choose from)
- the alternative crowd: Mate, Cinnamon, Regolith
on the flip side, Linux, the distros, the desktops are a lot more about community than anything Windows – and Linux projects are a lot more willing to admit they can’t operate in isolation – there’s constant interplay between the projects, the security teams, the kernel hackers, the language devs, the testers, and the users – and they communicate with each other through the blogs and mailing lists and IRC and toots and Fedi communities
didn’t even think of this earlier – you can also look into the next step beyond growing and eating: preserving – pickling for the cucumbers (tsukemono or quick pickles, dill pickles, bread-and-butter pickles) – fermentation for the cabbage (sauerkraut, kimchi)
don’t worry, the Republicans are trying to change that
gin and tonic – safe, easy to make (doesn’t piss off the bartender), and isn’t sickly sweet
“Self-defense is not violence.”
Florida has proven you can have fire and flood at the same time, so go for it!
you can have flooding without hurricanes though
united in the love of embarrassing their kids
Also won’t there will be an fragmentation of users issue?
when you can follow, subscribe to, post to, or comment on any community on any instance, there’s no fragmentation
when followers know there are plenty of options, it also prevents any single community from becoming too big or overbearing – and since the instances are all privately owned, the only thing you gain by growing your community bigger than everyone else is increased server load
we’ll just borrow the brake line from your Bentley to fix it
Amazon did more for killing off small businesses – the big box store chains did more for killing off shopping malls (their preference is the strip mall where they can showcase their entire frontage (and do an end-run around building codes))
and yes, everyone is too broke on top of everything else
insecticidal soap – fill a spray bottle with water, add a couple drops of liquid soap (Dr. Bronners or J&J Baby Shampoo)