I see it. The giving a little girl balloons to send her skyward certainly gives that vibe. If I could turn back time and tell her…

KDE, with breeze and a custom colour scheme. I find it less likely to lead to usability issues.

The stifling of innovation. So that's more of a feature to microsoft

I had a town of salem phase a while ago. I thought it was hilarious to be shit like a serial killer who left cryptic and nonsense death notes. I uninstalled the game and never put it back when I realized I wasn't having fun.

A bunch of skeletons on a roller poster passing by a bunch of normies on the same roller coaster but a different stretch of track. The skeletons are captioned "People who are still awake at 6 a.m." and are grinning evilly. The normies are captioned "People who got up at 6 a.m" and are terrified.

You know I'd forgotten Lemmy has no downvote button till I saw this

That's not fair. I'm an arch user and the only time I'd set foot on a forum is to ask a question you won't find an answer to in the wiki, the subreddit, some weird defunct blog nobody has made a post on in 11 years or the source code. And I probably won't be answering any questions with RTFM or anything else for that matter.

They removed legacy font based DPI scaling. I hate it. Nothing looks right 😭

Not exactly. It's still used as a basis for Mint and Pop_Os. It's still a fave basis for other people's distros. And I think if you're using an ubuntu based distro it's not your fault that your upstream is stupid. To clarify:

• ubuntu
• kubuntu
• lubuntu

-> PEBCAK

• Pop_Os
• Linux Mint
• Hannah Montana Linux

-> Silly maintainers using a dumpster fire like Ubuntu as a basis

• They come with apps like gnome software as standard, so you never interact with apt/rpm, flatpak or (barf) snap if you don't want to. You might not even know which you're installing.
• They come with all sorts of configuration utilities like networkd (In my gentoo days I used wpa_supplicant directly and had no desktop integration with the wifi configuration. I was kinda stupid lol. Don't use a distro to impress people kids), gui tools to manage your users and groups and something called "firewall configuration" which I don't know the package for but is preinstalled on my fedora kinoite machine. (They are available in the arch repos, but unless you know what you're looking for you wouldn't think to install them.)
• CUPS is preinstalled. If you don't use an "unbloated to the point of madness" distro like arch or gentoo you've probably never heard of CUPS or interacted with it directly, but it's the backbone of the linux (and macos) printing stack. In other words, printing should work out of the box wheras on arch that involves a trip to the arch wiki.
• Integration packages are preinstalled. Things like the daemon that allows youtube videos in firefox tabs to be controlled by the play button on your keyboard if it has one.
• Polkit is preinstalled, which allows applications to ask for sudo privileges and shows a popup box to the user asking their password. This is something you need to install manually on arch and gentoo, assuming you want that functionality and wouldn't prefer to just only allow privilege escalation via sudo.
• Most packages which ship with systemd services on debian (eg apache2, snapd, docker) enable that service by default. On arch this is usually not the case.
• 3rd party debian and fedora repos ship binaries so once you've added them to your config they function identically to core packages. Most AUR packages have to be compiled from source either manually or through a helper like yay. (Note: there aren't any helpers in the base system so you have to do at least one AUR build by hand before you get that part of the tech tree)
• Even bash auto-completion is an extra package on arch. No really, open a terminal on debian and then type ls -- then double press tab. It should suggest valid arguments. This isn't a thing on arch unless you install the bash-completion package

You know liquid nitrogen cooling can get you some insane cinebench scores, but you can't just pop a liquid nitrogen cooler in your PC and expect to boost your framerates. You need to disable so many safety things and if you don't know why they were there in the first place you're going to permanently damage your CPU.

Archlinux is that but for software and because it's software there's no physical barrier to entry. Arch is powerful, but if you don't know what you're doing you're better off with fedora or debian's hand holding.

A little bit of Najime Osana, but that's not cos she's trans that's cos he's an ADHD disaster human and owning it hard.