If a US Republican is praising your policy, it’s a bad policy. If they call it (🤢🤮) Reganesque, then it’s a disastrous one.

Oh! So Spaniards are better at clapping than everyone else! Oh, well, yeah, that’s 100% true based on that video and some memories from my time in Europe oh so long ago.

I took Spanish for three years here in the States. Most of the Spanish I know now I learned after high school. This seems to be a pretty common problem in nations with English as the official language…

Is clapping something other than slapping your hands together in Spain?

This sounds more like a particular region doing a common thing differently rather than other people not knowing how. Like, I’m pretty sure Americans know how to clap. I’ve seen them do it. Not to brag, but I’ve done it a time or two m’self.

Not exactly. The Distros can make lots of changes. Ubuntu officially supports Gnome, but has a bunch of preinstalled extensions and settings tweaks that change the look and feel.

If you want to know the “official” look of Gnome, as I said, check out Fedora. By default, I’m pretty sure the only enabled plugin puts the Fedora name in the bottom right corner.

In fact, if you want to know what the most plain, standard setup for any major DE is, check Fedora’s spin: Fedora KDE, XFCE, LXDE, and so on all start very vanilla on Fedora.

I dont know about what actually does into a distro and desktop and everything else

Well, if you want to learn, check out the Archwiki. Arch has amazing documentation. Just reading through the installation instructions can teach you a lot:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

It’s best practice to actually read the posy before commenting rather than commenting on the post title and ignoring its text.

Well, if you want to know what Gnome is supposed to look like (I mean the “default” setup) check out Fedora Workstation. Anything that looks different from that is modified. Several other Distros ship with a default Gnome desktop as well - OpenSuse Tumbleweed/Leap, Arch’s default setup, Vanilla OS, et al.

Gnome is actually one of the more difficult to modify. By default, there’s light mode, dark mode, and… that’s it. However, you can make some pretty radical changes with extensions and user themes. While it’s fairly easy to add extensions, user themes take a bit more more work to get going, and require some knowledge of CSS to make.

Does that answer your question?

I have nothing against Budgie, I just haven’t used it. It looks pretty nice, though 😀

Nothing surprising about it.

An updated CDE? Well I’ll be truing that out for certain!

Ah. I did not realize that. My bad.

If you’re not having performance issues, then I don’t see much reason to change. Sure, Xorg is basically in maintenance mode, but so what? Your setup works for you, so do your thing.

That said, Sway is a window manager intended to be a drop in replacement for i3 on Wayland, and is pretty close from what I hear: https://swaywm.org/

Plasma is very good with Wayland, although you might want to wait for Plasma 6, since they’re apparently making several improvements, and it’s due out soon anyway: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6-Wayland-Great

You can install Wayland and switch sessions during login too, so you can check it for yourself and see if your i3 dotfiles work with Sway.

With i3, that isn’t as simple, since i3 doesn’t support Wayland. You’d need to install a WM which supports Wayland + customize it, to be able to switch back and forth.

While it’s not as simple as KDE, switching from i3 isn’t that hard thanks to Sway. It’s a tiling window manager that’s intended to be used as a drop-in replacement for i3 on Wayland:

https://swaywm.org/

I haven’t tried Trinity, mostly because KDE 3 was a bad experience for me. It’s certainly an interesting project, though.

Well, it’s not about overeating for one thing. The stuff is everywhere in American food. Assuming you’re in the States, you’ve probably consumed a lot more corn syrup than you think within the past year, and the stuff isn’t good for you. Here’s an article from the Cleveland Clinic about why it’s probably not the best thing to eat:

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/avoid-the-hidden-dangers-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup-video/

Now, as I initially said, I don’t know about banning it, but I kinda feel like warning labels are justified, and maybe some other restrictions.

Also… I live in Iowa, and frankly the corn subsidies that have helped cause the corn sweetener explosion are destroying the environment here. It’s a lot to get into, but corn production at this scale causes changes to weather patterns. It’s a lot.

So, I’d like to see corn subsidies ended, or at least reduced a lot. This would make corn sweetener more expensive and therefore a less attractive ingredient.

I’d recommend AMD over Nvidia for a linux laptop, but it’s not as big a deal as it used to be. Most distros have good Nvidia support, although you often have to install the proprietary drivers after installing the OS. Even distros like Nobara that have Nvidia images to DL have to install and update the drivers at first launch.

So either will work, but if you’ve got a choice, go with AMD. It’s just a smoother experience.

It doesn’t seem like nothing at all! Great job and welcome to the fam!

Wow this takes me back to the first time I set up a FreeBSD desktop. That sense of accomplishment, I mean, wow. I haven’t felt that in a while.

Maybe I’ll build a new system with Funtoo… or I could go real crazy and use NetBSD…

Windows was never as zippy and stable as XFCE. And I hate to be a know-it-all, but XFCE is a Desktop Environment, not a Distro.

Okay. There’s a difference between a Desktop Environment and a Window Manager. There are lots of Window Managers, but not that many DEs. Ive played around with a lot of them, and I thought I’d share my thoughts:

• Gnome my #1 since 3 hit, this is my home and where I always end up. It might be lacking in configuration options, but it’s got a great look, coherent design, and a default workflow that feels like it was designed specifically for me.
• KDE Plasma Desktop is massively configurable, to an almost shocking degree. There’s very little you can’t do with Plasma. It’s perhaps a bit less stable than Gnome, and you can break it depending on your settings choices, but holy crow, it’s amazing.
• XFCE is my go to for older computers. It’s light, fast, and has a lot of configuration options. You can get it looking pretty cool with some work. It’s missing some of the fancier features, and development is slow, but that’s by design. It’s super stable. I kind of think of it as the Debian of DEs.
• LXQT even lighter than XFCE, but based on QT rather than GTK3. It’s fine, but I think the GUI tools are kinda ugly.
• Cinnamon was originally a Gnome 3 fork. It’s fine I guess, if you want your desktop to use the Windows workflow. Nemo is an excellent file manager, and there are a lot of fun ways to configure the look, but I just don’t care for it.
• Pantheon is the official DE of elementary OS. It’s pretty in a Apple sort of way, but it’s tools felt a little dated and the theming outside of the official elementary apps was inconsistent at best. It want to like it, but it feels incomplete.
• Deepin has a similar problem - it’s own apps look great, other apps look like they’re from another planet. It’s got a really nice look, though, and a good kinda feel to it.
• CDE the Common Desktop Environment. I tried it as a goof. It’s… well, let’s say it’s nostalgic. It’s been around for 30 years, and started out as a Unix desktop. It still looks pretty close to where it started, but it’s up to date (the last stable release was like October last year I think). It’s zippy of you can put up with the designed-for-EGA color palette, but really only good for a lark.

Hopping around to different DEs can be fun, but at the end of the day, the trick is to find one that has a workflow that works for you, or use KDE and make the workflow you need.

ETA: Somehow, I forgot to mention Mate. Basically, it’s an updated version of Gnome 2, which, to me, is an uglier and more awkward to configure XFCE. It’s not for me, but a lot of folks really love it. It’s so cool that we have a choice, and can be different!