I don’t like GNOME, but I’ve honestly had consistently worse experiences with Cinnamon.

Yep, which also explains why a distro that comes with Cinnamon won…

Apt repos are like that for several reasons, one of which is that it allows DNS based mirroring without having to share a certificate. Another is that back when apt started out, HTTPS was pretty rare.

Centralising around Flathub seems to me like it defeats the point of flatpak being able to have multiple repositories.

Looks like it’s a fork of Puppet.

I’ve done this before by packaging it in a snap. No filesystem access except its own snap directory, no network access because I didn’t request it in the snapcraft.yaml, but yes GPU and audio access through the desktop plug.

Many electron apps will break because they install some executables into ~/. config

So double win!

Depends on the use case. Definitely for my laptop though. In fact the decryption keys only exist in two places:

1. Inside my TPM
2. In a safe deposit box at a bank.

I have yet to find a distro that doesn’t run my favourite game

“Because I can” is a perfectly viable reason. Messing around and doing ridiculous things is one of the best ways to learn.

Fewer steps than yours, but I’ll claim this as a win in the “purity” field where you have to stop at the first layer where you can run a Windows app.

Linux on a RISC-V device -> container -> qemu-user + binfmt -> x86 VM software -> FreeBSD -> Linux binary compatibility -> Wine -> Windows app

Some people use plasma because they like how configurable it is. I do like that, but I’m also drawn to it because of its great defaults.

The main ways I change it are setting my background (on my work activity I have it selecting from various company related backgrounds while on my personal activity it uses a selection of my favourites of my own photos) and adjusting the bottom panel.

• I have bash scripts light and dark that make dbus calls to set my global theme to light or dark mode. I switch between them regularly, and opening system settings and pressing a button is too inconvenient.

Your first one sounds similar to me though - I use activity-aware Firefox to separate my personal and work accounts on my personal and work plasma activities.