Oh that’s an actually insightful answer! Thank you!

I don’t really have any issue with KDE, I’ve actually barely used it at all, I was merely trolling. It’s juste the “a lot of functionality at the expense of simplicity “ that doesn’t speaks to me in general. I understand the criticism against GNOME, however I got to really appreciate the effort they are putting in simplicity and integration. Once you get used to do things “the gnome way” , it’s really comfortable imo. I guess the same goes for any DE or WM.

I use Aeon btw, so of course I’m all in for using vanilla gnome!

GNOME is rock solid on my device, unlike KDE. What do you mean by that exactly?

The custom kernel situation looks kinda tricky indeed. What parts are not working without it?

Im considering an old surface go as well

That’s phone maxxing right there. The true power users!

Can you don’t?

Yup, can confirm! Same goes for Yodobashi Camera

1. OpenSuse / Aeon Desktop
2. Alpine
3. NixOS
4. Garuda
5. Guix System
6. Source Mage

HELL naw

Nooo not the pinky ! :(

This, but Emacs

I had similar unexpected behavior with a closed Telegram tab. Feels weird and a bit worrying that stuff is allowed to run in the background like that.

Alpine works great for the desktop and I’m using it myself for my lower end machine.

Working without glibc and with some strangly named packages is sometimes tricky, but so far I have been able to do anything I’d wanted!

If it can help you in your journey, here is my personal configuration for Alpine, with WMs and DEs on their own branches. Only the ‘suckless’ (DWM) and ‘xfce’ are working properly so far: https://gitlab.com/sunoc/als/-/tree/suckless?ref_type=heads

Great list! Thanks for sharing!

Kurwa

Better UI consistency. It’s always really annoying when you have your nice dark theme and a bright white page pops out of nowhere and fry your eyes.

For ease on the eye, keep everything black on white, and turn down screen brightness if the environment is dark.

I beg to slightly differ, but it’s a good take overall:

• Aeon Desktop or Fedora Silverblue, any sane immutable system, really
• Zig + Rust + Scheme / Clojure
• systemd,
• wayland,
• pipewire,
• gtk,
• Gnome,
• nano / gedit / whatever y’all are using instead of glorious Emacs
• flatpak,
• distrobox
• light mode

>:3 rawr

Aeon Desktops it is

Aeon FTW