Übercomplicated

+1 for Quod Libet

I used Fedora, and am now leaving for the exact reason you’re leaving Arch (plus IMO bad repos). Switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed a few months ago and am having a much better experience than with Fedora :D; I use the PC for programming, audio recording and mixing, document stuff, etc. (No gaming though).

Nobara is good but does break regularly, FYI… If you’re a “power-user” I wouldn’t recommend it as a daily driver.

There’s also Void Linux, which hasn’t ever broken on me due to an update, but is still a lot of work, due to its nature. It’s actually quite stable though, and you might enjoy it, since it’s quite similar to Arch and has very large repos.

I can’t say much about immutable distros, as the only one I’ve used is bazzite, which was kinda horrible (broke constantly).

Well, I hope that helped. Good luck!

The power cable of my nightmares… Everytime I feel like they want you to brake it, just so you need to buy a new one

In Germany there are Dub Techno concerts, which are kinda like this. But they’re usually late at night/early in the morning (more often the latter) and people are usually high on drugs. The music is great though! Check out Basic Channel

I use Extend by Dreymar which includes the alt, shift, and even control keys. This lets me almost exclusively use the homerow for key binds, which is great if you’re on a laptop keyboard or similar.

Probably because layering and chording easily let you access the F-keys while not having them take up so much space.

I know this is an ancient comment, but I have some motivational sentiment to share:

It’s been forever since I switched, but back when I was using QWERTY I had a pretty sad 40 WPM (words per minute); to be fair, I never put a conscious effort into typing fast. A friend of mine, who was very proud of her typing ability, typed up to 60-80 WPM, also on QWERTY.

Then, I decided to learn Colemak. I remember that I was taking a longish holiday, so I had a couple weeks to get comfortable before my speed mattered. In these weeks I managed memorize the layout and get around 30 WPM in bursts, but I was already much more comfortable and using proper touch-typing.

In the time after this my speed increased and increased (it really has been a while, so I can’t give specific times). Eventually I remember hitting a consistent 60 WPM and being super psyched.

Then, maybe six months after starting out, I realized I could type 100 WPM. Then 120. Today, 150 (though not for longer periods of time) WPM. My speed has effectively tripled.

I don’t give Colemak alone full credit for this. Part of it is that I used Colemak as an opportunity to learn the keys properly (I didn’t tape over the physical keys, so I had to memorize them, and thus properly learned touch typing), and that I started putting in a conscious effort into typing fast. But learning Colemak (Dreymar’s Colemak-CAWS and Extend to be specific) has certainly been one of my better decisions. I can highly recommend :P

+1 — I tried getting the gosh darn API key for hours with no success. Share your secrets (original commenter)!

It crushes me, CRUSHES ME, that the wretched Fedora beats my beloved openSUSE Tumbleweed in popularity! Why, oh why!??!

Seriously though, why do people prefer Fedora? I used it for 2 years and was very, very happy after switching my daily driver to Tumbleweed. It felt faster, had better repos, defaults, stability, etc. — aaaaaand it’s rolling release, which is so much easier (ironically) from a stability perspective (every, EVERY, Fedora release something would break for me, gosh-darn-it). I just don’t get it; am I the only one experiencing this?

I remember this from “The C Programming Language // ANSI Edition” — a.k.a. K&R! A great guide to C btw; I still consider it the single most informative and useful thing that happened to me in the realm of computer science.

+1. Was really surprised to see ecosia (searx!?) and stremio as the only options of their categories; kinda sketchy…

Graphene should also for sure be included, even if it’s Pixel only. I don’t care that much about Bluesky as I’ve dealt first-hand with trying to get my gen-x mother on mastodon, and failing spectacularly. It’s not better in the long run, but in the short term it’s good to leave Twitter, simply to lose Elon some money. Either way, the list is kinda weird.

Edit: also, only mention droidify and not plain f-droid, obtainium, and Aurora? What?

Edit: corrected last edit

I was short on time but wanted to recommend a book that drastically changed my life and improved my mental health. I have no moral issues recommending it; one can always look up a summary, or easily read it free of cost using shadow libraries (not that I recommend that).

However, I will humor you, and include a short summary here:

• better memory for stories
• better ability to think three dimensionally
• better ability to think dynamically (changing or uncertain variables)
• and some others I can’t remember off the top of my head.

Hope this helps.

Too much to cover in a comment! Here’s a good book on the subject: https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/

Edit: wait, that may be the wrong link. Here’s the book I meant: https://www.amazon.com/Dyslexic-Advantage-Unlocking-Hidden-Potential/dp/0452297923 (sorry for using an Amazon link)

A note in left-handedness:

In primary school, I first learned to write with a pencil and then with a fountainpen, as you describe (I grew up in Europe). This has made no difference to my experience with writing whatsoever, because our <insert strong swear word> language/cursive/alphabet is designed for right-handed people. I could talk for hours on the subject, but it would involve much swearing — I will spare you the pain. Just know that we should be writing top-to-bottom instead of left to write, and should re-design our alphabet, cursive, fountain pen nibs, and how we teach lefties to write.

Absolutely! In fact, I’d argue that this is true for many conditions that we treat as disabilities, like dyslexia (which is rarely disabling) and the aforementioned autism. Both of these conditions have disadvantages and advantages. The situation is not black and white; simply because society was designed one way, does not mean that everyone who does not perfectly fit in is disabled or has a illness.

I’d go with grimshot then, which I think works for hyprland as well (it’s made for sway). It provides an interface over Grim, slurp, and jq, and makes life easy. Combine it with a image viewer like imv, and your set!

In Germany Jan Böhmermann did an expose on Falun Gong once, and it was hilarious. Highly recommend, it’s still on YouTube.

It’s just stigma against the Grüne; hypocrisy at its purest. In other words: I don’t think he actually cares about immigration, he was just using it as a scapegoat.

Yeah, that’s why I specified fedora 40. I guess eventually I’ll need to try fedora again

Your Fedora vs. OpenSUSE comparison is amusing to me, as I’ve had exactly the opposite experience. Fedora 40 DNF was hella slow for me, fedora broke regularly, etc.

My experience with Fedora (about 2 years of daily driving) has lead me to almost hate it, while my experience with Tumbleweed (approx. 6 months daily driver) has lead me to live it dearly. And I’ve never even used YAST!

Well, I guess a lot of this really depends on what packages you use, how you configure your OS, etc. — it’s good to know both sides of the coin no matter what.