I can totally see how this has a positive impact in cognition and general well-being. Personally, I wouldn’t want a day in my life where I consume short form content and giving free reign to all the other behavioural mind-killers.

Props for going down the right path.

Debian is kind of too big to fail. Maybe NixOS if you want something that will almost certainly gain popularity in the future.

Don’t think though that distros are the layer which you want to look at. Lots of stuff happens at the level of DEs, drivers and individual apps, which sure is preconditioned by the distro you choose but at the same time not that strict of a thing. You can get anything working provided you have the time.

x11 is still in its last round before retirement it seems, using Wayland is going to future proof what you’ve got majorly.

My 2c. Feel free to critique.

I would honestly love to share my stuff but I’m afraid that what I have to share contains too much identifying information with screenshots and all. I probably spent 24 hours in total with my current install and at least triple as much getting a previous Cinnamon install that I screwed up because I went to the experimental Wayland session to look and act a certain way. Back when I studied architecture we would consider all the failed attempts as a natural and indeed deeply necessary aspect of design, therefore I count the previous install as being the starting point of my current one. I hope that made sense. All of this is to say that I spent an inordinate amount of my recent life on this. I would love to share, but my paranoia is really keeping me from doing that. It took me 24 hours alone to create a decent repository of thematically and aesthetically matched backgrounds with all the selecting and editing of images. There is just so much that you have to do.

All distributions are easy as long as forum posts and well sorted documentation exists.

And all distribution can be hard when they’re nerfed. Try modding Debian to behave like like a crazy arch setup. Program X requires KDE Plasma 6.5.x, you can only use 6.3.6 because Debian. Then you have to go to a GitHub page and compile an earlier version of program X by yourself. During this you get errors and mess your installs up. You clean up. Rinse and repeat until you have got something working. By then you’ll have spent an hour, if not two. On Arch I would have only had to have typed a little thing into the terminal. This is one of the less complex examples fyi.

In the end it’s gotta work out. A nice evening to you too

Hong Kong has got to be pretty darn cool. Didn’t know there was such a thing as a portable rice cooker. You learn something each day I guess haha

…Or maybe pedantry?

Aye, you get it

Interesting, where in Asia, if I may ask?

Fellow Debian user ricing my daily driver here. Other people may call me crazy too

that makes two of us!!

I’ve mostly come to terms with it by reminding myself that most people are either blissfully ignorant or too busy to care.

Active meta ignorance, making yourself be ignorant of the ignorance of others. Which is the same as ignorance but implemented as an abstraction :P

Have you considered making a sort of Honestly, I have not. I don’t do much with sharing stuff on my GitHub since my programming stuff usually doesn’t exceed a handful of scripts save for when making websites. install script or even just a public repository for your tweaks?

The whole idea of putting all the changes I made to my system is daunting since it’s quite a lot even though it isn’t that finicky at the smaller scales. I wouldn’t know where to begin and I take it it takes a few weeks to get a basic structure going that feels comfortable. I’ll try it though! Thank you for the good suggestion

I already know why that is. Perfectionism :)

And I know it’s a darn problem lol

Let’s say you make rice more than twice a week. Rice cookers can save a stupid amount of time. They’re cheap, reliable and you can use them not just for rice, but also a bunch of other stuff. My advice, try one if you like rice.

Ricing Debian is as easy as on any other Distro. Most people I know are using Debian AND (Cinnamon/GNOME OR Xfce). Those are maybe a bit annoying to modify and make your. KDE however works like a charm and people think I’m using Arch because it looks unlike anything the way I’m using tiling.

Props though for getting people to switch, you’re a real one.

From my experience, without majorly reconfiguring the machine, virtual machines, RSS and making your own programs can be rather time-consuming, though also carrying a challenge you may be lacking as is now.

Exactly that is time excellently spent. Aside from the obvious hobbyist character, this has extremely wide real-world applications. I love that you guys are talking me into modifying kernels :D

I think there is a misunderstanding. While I do think that it’s great, I am not saying that I hate it haha

Good point though about portable profiles, that’s why I’m messing around with NixOS currently.

rawdogging life rn

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