Far right leader with distinctive facial features tries to take power by force and fails

Judges are lenient to far right leader and do not give a severe sentence

The incumbent party is attacked by far right leader for "mismanaging the country"

Far right leader takes power democratically due to economic troubles and dissatisfaction with incumbent party

Far right leader eliminates political opposition by removing judges who are not loyal to his agenda

Far right leader appointing loyalists into government positions

Far right leader openly plans to invade neighbours

Far right leader jails "aliens" in concentration camps

Far right leader turns against one of his loyalists in fear that they will overtake him in power/authority

History really does repeat itself...

(p.s. if this is not the right place for this kind of post, please lmk!)

edit: I'm using Fedora Workstation 42!

I really like the ability to just search "sleep", "shutdown", "restart", etc. Switching between windows and opening search using either the super key or a three finger swipe up is super handy, on Windows the button opens the start menu (where the search is horrible) and a three finger swipe up can open app switcher, where you have to hold your three fingers to go to another app.

Using GNOME extensions to see power usage, CPU usage, memory usage, etc. is very useful. Weird that the "extension list" addon isn't a thing that's on by default. Feel like being able to see all your extensions is a really important part of having extensions. Being able to see the clock at the top took a bit getting used to but makes so much more sense than having it tucked in a corner. I also like the integrated calendar, much better than Window's version where you are unable to see any of your events, not even as a dot!

Using dnf and flatpak to install programs is very smooth and I like being able to update all my programs at once with just "sudo dnf update && flatpak update"! Being able to see the dependencies and progress bars and download speeds is really helpful too. I don't need to search for programs anymore because of a thing called "fuzzy search". It's like magic!

GNOME's UI looks much cleaner than Windows, everything is actually cohesive. It's not a mix of flat and glass and clear and ancient. It's all adwaita. (that's what you call it, right?)

Something weird was not having the minimise and maximise buttons. I had to enable those myself, which is a bit odd. Now that it is enabled it works fine.

I also really like being able to easily customise themes (everforest) and icons (Papirus!). And if GNOME is considered "not very customisable" in the linux world, KDE, Cinnamon, etc. must be even more customisable! I'm happy with GNOME though, so I probably won't switch DE anytime soon. Maybe when I get a new computer I could try out KDE.

App compatibility was no problem. All the apps I used before (thunderbird, obsidian, joplin, vscodium, godot, etc.) all have linux versions, and the ones that don't (like SumatraPDF and AIMP) have linux alternatives. Okular and Gapless has been working great!

There were very few issues, but there were some nonetheless. OBS Studio footage was very choppy as hardware decoding wasn't working, and I had to dig deep into forums to install drivers for my intel igpu. Now it works fine, so that's good! I also had an issue with a VPN app, but they support an app called "Clash Verge". They only note the Windows and Mac versions on their site, but clash verge has a linux app too, and it works quite well!

I don't play many games, mostly Minecraft and some retro titles. mGBA works fine on linux, and Minecraft java edition supports linux. I've also tried a bunch of linux games like SuperTuxKart and Xonotic and, considering they were made around a decade ago or so (I think) they were really fun! My other games ran fine with Steam installed, Proton and Wine makes them run fine!

I'll be sticking with the penguin as it's fun, playful, and is much cuter than both the window and the apple. :D

My phone runs a bit hotter than it used to, but it's a beta so they'll probably reduce the effects to make it less of drain on performance and battery life. There is a reduce transparency toggle which does help a bit, esp. for readability. Hopefully when iOS 26 is released there's an obvious option to reduce transparency.

My opinion on the "liquid glass" is mixed. Some parts look pretty cool. The apps (Mail, Photos, etc.) use it quite well, with only some parts are transparent making readability a bit better. I really like the change to the search bars being at the bottom, makes the phone more one-handable. Safari doesn't look too good in my opinion, the glass effects are a bit much. The camera app just hid all the buttons, which is a bit annoying. You can have it show flash and live photos toggles in settings, which is good.

The lock screen effect with the "3d" photos is very cool, but the phone runs extra hot when it's enabled so I turned that off. The glassy clock is pretty cool and there's the option to make it normal again if you select "solid". Swiping up from the lock screen makes a weird glass effect with the edges distorted and lots of rainbow fringing, which looks a bit odd. When you swipe down you can see the home screen app icons until it's all the way down, then they all pop out of existence and the background is replaced. Bit jarring. Similar effect with swiping up, background changes with no transition, but the apps appear in an animation this time. Weird. I'm assuming this is probably a bug with the beta, at least I hope it is...

Onto the home screen. I think the "liquid glass" themes make the tinted icons look a bit better than just colour on black, I like that bit of customisability. I still do not get the "clear" icons, it quite literally is transparent and you can barely differentiate the icons. You can always swap it to the default, but there is still some annoying glass effects on app icons where it clearly isn't natively built (I'm guessing the glass effects is applied to all icons automatically incl. third party apps, but it doesn't look too great with some of them). The app folders look terrible though and the reflection/refraction is really distracting. The pop ups when you select text is especially annoying, popping up a huge bubble. I'll need some time to get used to that vs just clicking right to share, translate, etc. The control center is not very nice to look at but it works fine.

Overall, in places where it's used tastefully (in a lot of Apple's apps, for instance) it works quite well if a bit distracting. I like the lock screen and home screen customisation and the ability to change it to "solid". The glass effects are still quite distracting though. The reduce transparency toggle does help a bit with readability, but it's annoying that it's buried deep in accessibility settings. Not very accessible at all. The lock screen 3d effect is cool but is a bit subtle, and it makes the phone uncomfortably hot. There are still plenty of bugs, but that'll hopefully be fixed in the public release. I like the option for the tinted icons but do not get the clear icons. Camera app isn't too functional, just hiding everything isn't better than before! The iOS 26 beta is quite fun, if very buggy, and the liquid glass works in some places but doesn't work in all places.

This is my first high-effort project using godot, and besides the player animated sprite and movement system (based on a tutorial by HeartBeast!) all the pixel art, sfx, music, programming, etc. was done by me. This was made as part of a physics project about black holes and Einstein's theory of relativity and is partly based on the movie "Interstellar"

I am really proud of this and I think my pixel art has really improved! I really like how the dialogue boxes turned out and the music sounds pretty decent too. The decorations (grass, flowers, rocks) turned out really great as well!

here's the itch.io link: https://spenguin.itch.io/space-holes

and several screenshots of the game:

!player on earth, grass and flowers, in front of saturn rocket

!astronaut parkour through hot accretion disk material

!astronaut is looking at the event horizon of the black hole

!player is falling in black hole

!question about the property of the singularity in the black hole

!answer was correct!

!player has become a string of atoms and is dead, captain is worried

When you add, the end result is a sum. The process of addition can also be called summation. If this is the case, why doesn’t anyone call the process of multiplication production? It would also open up to some good jokes…FACTORies do PRODUCTION

edit: The game has been released on itch.io, see here: https://spenguin.itch.io/space-holes (exported for both Linux and Windows)

This is probably my first-ever high-effort game I made with Godot (or any engine, really...)! I've made all the sprites, tilesets, music, sfx, etc. by myself. (The music and sfx were generated using Jummbox and bfxr) And ofc I did all the programming myself too, with only the movement system borrowed from a different game that I never finished (can't waste that nice movement system! I don't want to re-program it again...) as well as the grass tileset (but the decorations on top are new)

I'm very proud of this and I think my pixel art skills have really improved :D

here are some more screenshots:

!on earth in front of saturn rocket

!wall jumping

!in front of the event horizon

!inside black hole

!quiz, still falling in black hole

!answer correct, still falling in black hole

!spaghettification

!final level, deciding whether to kill or spare the child

Aside from the vowels a e i o u (which are special) and also the pseudo-vowel y, the rest of the consonants roughly split into a few kind of groups. The -ee endings (b, c, d, etc.) is the most common, but there is also e- (like s, l), -ay (like k), a- (like r). There's also some weird ones like q (kyu) and the worst offender is "double u" (w).

If the pronunciations of the consonants were standardised, what should be the new "standard" for pronouncing them? Should it be -ee, or something like -ay? How would the alphabet song sound?

Hi all, this will be a pretty quick summary of the different things I have learned throughout my journey to cut out big tech and switch to the more open of the sourced apps.

Chrome -> (brief period with MS Edge) -> Firefox & forks

• There aren't any extensions missing from Firefox addons and I particularly love the simplicity of the "Dark Background & Light Text" addon.
• On Firefox forks, I have tried Librewolf and Floorp. Librewolf is definitely more privacy focused and I would say is quite good if you're looking for that. Floorp is super customisable and more fun, and also disables the telemetry stuff Firefox enables by default.

Gmail -> Proton, Tuta, and others

• no ads in my email (why were they there in the first place?)
• Proton Mail is quite good, but you have to use their apps since they do not support IMAP. I don't like that since their apps are quite slow. Same goes for Tuta, with their apps being EVEN SLOWER.
• Now I frequently swap between different providers. I can say that both Mailfence and Disroot are quite good and pretty reliable and both use IMAP! Emails load quick and setup is easy.
• I'm sure there are plenty of other email providers that are great too, but these are ones I have tried myself. I would like to switch to a different email provider later down the line. Not sure why, but I actually like switching emails and such.

Spotify -> local music players!

• no ads when I'm listening to music
• works offline
• On Windows I used AIMP and now I use Gapless with Fedora Workstation. Both are awesome!
• what more do I have to say

Bambu Studio -> Orca Slicer

• I like the teal more than the Bambu green and orcas are cool
• Orca Slicer is basically just better Bambu Studio

Google Passwords/Apple Keychain -> Bitwarden and KeePassXC

• Bitwarden is cloud based and pretty good, and KeePassXC is local (but can be synced using things like Syncthing) and is also quite good

Google Auth -> Ente Auth

• Nicer looking UI, and also has a desktop app so I don't need my phone to use 2FA

It's the big one...Windows -> Linux (I chose Fedora Workstation)

• GNOME looks fantastic! Way better than the clunky Win11 interface with some glass elements, some flat ones, and some ancient looking ones they clearly haven't updated in a long time. I've also tried KDE and it also looks very nice.
• Using the terminal to install + update stuff is really good, I no longer need to search for downloads on the web anymore! Also, looking at all the dependencies install is really cool
• NO MORE MS BLOATWARE!!!
• all my apps have linux versions and/or linux alternatives so the switch was seamless. Only thing was setting up games to work with Proton and Wine. Don't play many multiplayer fps games so that was not an issue.
• Also, the file system is a bit easier to work with (no more confusing / and \\...)
• Also, the level of customisation is insane! I can switch out the icons (I use Papirus), the shell theme, application theme, etc.
• Apparently GNOME is considered not very customisable by LInux standards, meaning KDE and Cinnamon are EVEN MORE CUSTOMISABLE!!!!!!!!
• penguin is cool

Adobe Illustrator -> Inkscape

• Very similar UI, and also runs a bit faster
• Switched when my subscription ran out, stayed because it's AWESOME
• still can't figure out how to make a straight line, but that's more of a me problem

VSCode -> VSCodium

• Exactly the same, except with some MS extensions unavailable and no MS telemetry
• No Intellicode or C/C++ extension
• I instead used clangd and it works fineish

edit:

• I was able to set up clangd with vscode on Fedora!
• For some reason, on Windows, a bunch of errors popped up saying clangd cannot find headers. On Fedora, another issue was that I was using the Flatpak version of VSCodium, and since flatpaks are sandboxed it had no access to /usr/bin
• After installing the rpm from the copr repo, it worked! No weird missing header errors! That's another point for the community penguin, sorry sheet of glass owned by mini pillow-like...

Google Drive + OneDrive -> pCloud, Jottacloud, and Backblaze

• Google Drive's app is kind of okay but OneDrive's app is HORRIBLE. I'm not going to rant about it in this post since this is about the (much, much) better alternatives
• pCloud's desktop app just. makes. sense. You select folders to sync and it does it in the background, No put-all-the-folders-into-a-ondrive-folder-and-also-there's-two-of-them-for-some-reason like OneDrive does. OneDrive should be called OneFolder...
• Jottacloud is also nice and easy to work with. They don't have a Linux app, but they do have an intuitive CLI that just needs to be started and then you give it the path of the folders to sync and that's it! Again, no put-all-the-folders-into-a-ondrive-folder-and-also-there's-two-of-them-for-some-reason like OneDrive
• I only use Backblaze for syncing my notes as it's compatible with Amazon S3, and it syncs well. That's all I can say.
• I use pCloud for backing up my phone, Jottacloud for my laptop, and Backblaze for syncing a few notes and such.

Google Photos -> ente photos

• Syncing is great, and there's also decently helpful (local) AI that is, importantly, opt-in rather than opt-out, meaning you don't have to use it if you don't want to. whereas google scrapes all your photos to train their AI (probably)
• Their apps are also really nice!
• I am going to attempt to selfhost Immich, hopefully that goes well! :D

GitHub -> Codeberg

• Git still works perfectly fine as expected.
• Codeberg has a very similar interface to GitHub, which is nice
• Two issues though:
  • No mobile app (at least on iOS, not sure about Android. That's fine for the most part, only issue is not having a contributions widget with the little squares...)
  • Codeberg Pages doesn't automatically deploy Jekyll pages, so I have to run jekyll build manually. Not a huge deal. I wasn't bothered to set up woodpecker cli.

YouTube -> Invidious + FreeTube

• Invidious lets me have subscriptions while not needing to log in to a google account!
• I can use Invidious as a web app, since there aren't many iOS youtube clients.
• FreeTube is pretty awesome! You have subscriptions, playlists, as well as the ability to use things like external players. An amazing program that's also cross-platform!
• Invidious and FreeTube occasionally don't work, but that's YouTube trying to block them. Huge props to the people who maintain the thing! It's one thing to develop a really cool project, it's another thing to protect it from multibillion dollar companies like Google from bamming it

[nothing] -> KDE Connect

• File sending and clipboard sharing is AWESOME, like a better more cross-platform version of AirDrop

i think that's it. I might be missing a few though.___

Something like codingfont.com, but for non-monospace sans-serif fonts (for finding a good font for the UI and/or a good font for websites)

codingfont.com has been mighty helpful for finding a decent monospace font! Wondering if there's a similar thing for regular fonts...

edit: codingfont, not codingfonts!

Where would be a good place to share my experience to switching to a combination of non-big tech, open-source, and private apps and services? The open source community doesn’t really work as some of the things aren’t FOSS at all, and the privacy community doesn’t really work either as some aren’t necessarily privacy-minded. (same kind of reasoning goes with the communities for linux, linuxgaming, selfhosted, etc. Some of the things are related to that particular topic but many or most are not)

If I want to install something, I can either do "dnf install [program name]" or "flatpak install [program name]". Same goes for when I want to remove a program. And for flatpak at least, I typed ONE WORD from a game I was uninstalling because I didn't remember to exact tag and flatpak asked me "do you want to install [full tag of game]? y/n" like HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE THAT IS SO CONVENIENT

Archbishop means “head/leader of the bishops”. “Archduke” means “head/leader of the Archduchy of Austria”. Archnemisis means your main/head nemesis (similar case with archenemy being your worst enemy). Anarchy means there is no state control, or no “head/leader”. No “archy”.

Also, does this mean that Arch Linux is the king of the distros?

I had a bunch of issues setting it up to work on my laptop, but now that I have I would like to compile all the bits and stuff together into one guide!

source: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/principis/howdy-beta/ and https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/issues/1004

1. install dependencies

downloading: SEE GITHUB ISSUE SECTION “DOWNLOAD DEPENDENCIES” (I can’t post the links!)

installing: ``` cd ~/Downloads

sudo dnf install \ python3-elevate-0.1.3-3.20240124git78e82a8.fc41.noarch.rpm \ python3-keyboard-0.13.5-3.fc41.noarch.rpm \ python3-pyv4l2-1.0.2-3.20240124gitf12f0b3.fc41.x86_64.rpm ```

installing opencv (note that I had to use pip install for opencv-python, so try that as well!) ``` sudo dnf install -y opencv opencv-devel opencv-python

sudo dnf install -y v4l-utils ```

When I tried to install howdy from “howdy-beta, an error pops up with “nothing provides python3dist(ffmpeg-python)...”

BettridgeCameron on GitHub is the holy saviour with this fix:

dnf install https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/python-ffmpeg-python/0.2.0/8.fc41/noarch/python3-ffmpeg-python-0.2.0-8.fc41.noarch.rpm

2. installing howdy

remove non-beta howdy (it doesn’t seem to work for Fedora 41+) ``` sudo dnf remove howdy

sudo dnf copr remove principis/howdy ```

install beta howdy ``` sudo dnf copr enable principis/howdy-beta

sudo dnf —refresh install howdy ```

3. use sudo howdy config

device-path: use ls /dev/video* or v4l2-ctl —list-devices to see all device paths and test each of them using sudo howdy test (for me it was /dev/video2)

settings to change “freedy237” recommends: (note that howdy-beta uses different words e.g. “abort if” rather than “ignore”, make sure you have howdy-beta! This stumped me for a while)

detection_notice = true timeout_notice = true no_confirmation = false suppress_unknown = false abort_if_ssh = true abort_if_lid_closed = true disabled = false use_cnn = false workaround = input certainty = 4.0 timeout = 10 device_path = /dev/video0 # Replace with your detected device warn_no_device = true max_height = 480 frame_width = 640 frame_height = 480 dark_threshold = 80 recording_plugin = opencv device_format = v4l2 force_mjpeg = true exposure = -1 device_fps = 15 rotate = 1

4. use sudo howdy add to add a face.

Name it anything you want, I go with names like “glasses” and “no-glasses” since…I wear glasses. Some random person on GitHub with a multi-monitor setup has it set to looking at different monitors. Whatever you want, doesn’t really matter.

You can use sudo howdy test to check if it works. A red outline means it’s an unrecognised face, a green outline with the name means it is a recognises face. no outline means not a face. Also check that whether it is a “dark frame” or not vs a “scan frame”. You might need to set the dark threshold higher using config. (this was an issue I faced as well, for me 80 works)

5. howdy on login

sudo nano /etc/pam.d/gdm-password

add: auth sufficient pam_howdy.so

a similar thing can be done for gnome’s password pop ups (e.g. when installing an app) by going to “polkit-1”

6. howdy on sudo (you might not want this!)

sudo nano /etc/pam.d/sudo

add: auth sufficient pam_howdy.so no_confirmation

7. permissions

sudo chmod o+rw /dev/video*

sudo chmod -R o+rx /usr/share/howdy/dlib-data

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/howdy

sudo usermod -aG video gdm

sudo chmod 666 /dev/video*

sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib64/security/pam_howdy.so

8. fix SELinux perms for login screen

create “howdy.te” sudo nano howdy.te

add: (as seen on fedora copr repo)

``` module howdy 1.0;

require { type lib_t; type xdm_t; type v4l_device_t; type sysctl_vm_t; class chr_file map; class file { create getattr open read write }; class dir add_name; }

#============= xdm_t ============== allow xdm_t lib_t:dir add_name; allow xdm_t lib_t:file { create write }; allow xdm_t sysctl_vm_t:file { getattr open read }; allow xdm_t v4l_device_t:chr_file map; ```

compile and insert it ``` checkmodule -M -m -o howdy.mod howdy.te

semodule_package -o howdy.pp -m howdy.mod

semodule -i howdy.pp ```

For context, I just installed Fedora Workstation and I am dual-booting alongside Windows.

For some strange reason, download speeds are hovering around 200 KB/s, and sometimes randomly dropping to below 70KB/s. This occurs when I boot into either Windows or Fedora. Before installing Fedora, my speeds were usually >50MB/s, sometimes a couple hundred MB/s if the network isn’t very busy. This might be an issue with network drivers being weird since I’m dual booting, or maybe I need to manually install drivers for Fedora.

(for comparison my phone, using the same network, has >100MB/s download speeds)

EDIT: I’ve updated to Fedora 42 and network speeds are now in the MB/s again. Not sure what happened. Now it seems that when I install from “flatpak-1” rather than just “flatpak” speeds are great. Also, dnf install has good speeds now.

I'm thinking of switching to Linux as my daily driver after trying it out both Fedora Workstation and KDE using Live USB, but I'm wondering if I should consider other distros besides Fedora. I've heard of openSUSE, is that decent? Not many people really mention them. Linux Mint is great, but I don't like Cinnamon all too much.

What's a good desktop-agnostic distro that lets you easily swap between the two?

edit: Woah, it seems that you're able to swap between DEs from the login manager as long as you install both. Okay then, new question, for a beginner friendly distro, should I go for Fedora, OpenSUSE, or something else?

edit 2: a bit more information about my device and my preferences...

On KDE Plasma vs GNOME, I would like to try both out and see which I like better long-term. KDE Plasma seems a bit more familiar (closer to Windows 10) whereas GNOME is a bit more different but I'm open to using either.

I'm running a laptop with an Intel i7-1360P. It's one of those 2-in-1 convertible 360 degree hinge laptops.

I would say I'm open to learning how to work with the terminal and customising the distro a bit, but I don't want to do anything too out of my scope. I don't want to spend too many hours setting it up, I'd rather have something that works mostly out of the box :D

I want a stable distro as in I don't want to break my system after an update, but still want something up-to-date though. I'm open to rolling release distros, but to my knowledge those are usually less stable with more breaking changes than fixed release options.

edit 3: just installed Fedora Workstation and it works really well! Multi-touch with my trackpad works fine and everything runs smooth. File read/write speeds were also strangely a bit more consistent (on Windows it jumps between <100KB/s and 60MB/s whereas on Fedora it’s consistently around or over 45MB/s…weird…)

My only issue right now is that the touchscreen doesn’t work anymore, how do I install the drivers for that?

edit 4:

Touchscreen and even rotating the screen when the device works now after an update :DDDDD

now I’m slowly installing my programs again…

edit: I have tried using mkdir /var/lib/radicale and /var/lib/radicale/collections (with and without -p), chown radicale:radicale /var/lib/radicale (and collections) with and without -R, and the same for chmod 770 and chmod g-w,o-rwx. NOTHING WORKS!!! I just want to self-host a calendar...

I've also tried removing the "strict" security settings from my config, but no luck.

maybe the warning that preceded the permission denied is helpful? I don't know why is is "not existing" though, I've already tried using mkdir and chown... [2025-05-01 13:34:06 +0800] [6537] [WARNING] Storage location: '/var/lib/radicale/collections' not existing, create now [2025-05-01 13:34:06 +0800] [6537] [CRITICAL] An exception occurred during server startup: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/radicale/collections'

original post:

I am following the steps of the radicale documentation and have got to running it as a service. However, when I ran radicale it failed to start. When I tried to run radicale manually, I get a permission denied error

[CRITICAL] An exception occurred during server startup: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/radicale/collections'

I have tried manually using mkdir to create /var/lib/radicale/collections and setting the owner using chown -R radicale:radicale to the "radicale" user, and I have also tried using chmod -R 770.

my config (/etc/radicale/config) ``` [auth] type = htpasswd htpasswd_filename = /etc/radicale/users htpasswd_encryption = autodetect

delay = 1

[server] hosts = 0.0.0.0:5232, [::]:5232

max_connections = 20 max_content_length = 100000000

100 MB

timeout = 30

30 seconds

[storage] filesystem_folder = /var/lib/radicale/collections ```

my radicale.service (/etc/systemd/system/radicale.service ``` [Unit] Description=A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server After=network.target Requires=network.target

[Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/env python3 -m radicale Restart=on-failure User=radicale

Deny other users access to the calendar data

UMask=0027

Optional security settings

PrivateTmp=true ProtectSystem=strict ProtectHome=true PrivateDevices=true ProtectKernelTunables=true ProtectKernelModules=true ProtectControlGroups=true NoNewPrivileges=true ReadWritePaths=/var/lib/radicale/ /var/cache/radicale/

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ```

I am trying to use my old laptops for self-hosting. One has a 6th gen Intel Core i3 (4GB ram), the other has an 11th gen Intel Core i5 (8GB ram). I have previously tried both ubuntu server and desktop but couldn't get it to work well. For the former I found it difficult to remote ssh and the latter I had difficulty installing Docker containers. (I'm not very good with the command line)

I would like to find an OS that is easier to setup with less of a neccesity for the command line (I would still like to learn how to use it though, I don't want to get rid of it entirely!). I've heard of CasaOS, is that a good option? It seems quite easy to use. What about other alternatives?

I haven’t tried Linux in a while and only really played around with XFCE and Cinnamon and reviving my old laptops, but I’ve just tried KDE Plasma and GNOME for a bit and DAMN they look good. Modern looking and not the weird Mica effect that Windows has. Very clean!

They both look great and I wouldn’t say one looks better than the other, just preference probably, just that GNOME looks more bubbly + rounded + bit like MacOS in a good way and Plasma looks more blocky + similar to Win10 taskbar

The touchscreen buts still appear to need a bit of work, on both Plasma and GNOME I made it freeze. For Plasma I opened the launcher button and tried to use the onscreen keyboard, and it kept on opening and closing very quickly, for GNOME I did the three finger swipe up gesture and everything became unresponsive. Also, Bluetooth weirdly doesn’t work on KDE but does on GNOME. Huh. Maybe just my device?

I really want to switch soon, maybe during the holidays I’ll get round to it :D

edit: I think it’s pretty crazy that a relatively small team (compared to the likes of Microsoft) can offer such a good UI and overall user experience! That’s insane! The people who help make the distros are doing very good work and I wish them the best of luck! Hopefully the weird quirks and compatibility issues will iron out and Linux becomes mainsteam :D

For example, if you only wanted to see bees, you are unable to see anything unless a bee comes into frame, in which case you are only able to see a bee.

You could also decide to choose something that you cannot normally sense (e.g. hearing bat echolocation sounds)

It seems that GitHub is being blocked in my region as well as other options from U.S. based companies (e.g. GitLab)

Where should I migrate my repos? Codeberg is an option as it’s Europe based so isn’t blocked in my region. Codeberg Pages is also nice to have. However, Codeberg seems to push for excluding proprietary software dependencies, which might limit the kinds of projects I can do.

Another option is to self-host Gitea, I could use my old laptop for that. Gitea doesn’t have a GitHub pages, but there seems to be third-party plugins that allow that. The downside with self-hosting (for me) is that it means I’m unable to collaborate with others (since it’ll be local) and I can’t easily share my projects. It will also probably be harder to set up.

What other options are there, or are these two the best options for me?

edit: decided on Codeberg, how do I make my static pages to work with Codeberg Pages? I've switched to a "pages" branch and the website doesn't work (https://username.codeberg.page/repo-name/)

How do I make static pages work with Codeberg???