kasran, fourier transfemme @typhlosion@awoo.space

@roxy get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty app

im trying to graduate away from being the kind of computer user who just accepts what is put in front of them. but it feels like it's really not a gentle slope, with linux, between "pick ubuntu or debian and don't worry too much about it" and the expectation of mastery over your preferences. it's a lot to take in

im attempting to select a linux distribution to put on a computer

and im getting kind of overwhelmed with all the differences that i don't know the implications of. like, foobar linux uses x desktop environment and y package manager and z init system, but bazqux linux uses a whole different set of stuff

and it's not really clear to me how much committing to one locks me out of other stuff. like, iirc there's a bunch of stuff that depends on systemd? so what if i get a distro with runit instead

@doricdream i am proud of this build but it will never even approach your majesty, soph

@hax my shameful admission is that i have never actually named any of my devices before

so now that my pc is almost done, i have two crucial questions

what should i name it, and

should i put stickers on the case

@spadetale gonna beep that nose 👉

@nano@yiff.life as an extremely casual linux user: gnome is good, kde plasma is fine, xfce is fine and has a cute little mouse mascot. theyre all fine. i dont understand what the big deal is

ftmpeg. is this anything

@flesh @gardevoir really gards all ovoir them

sometimes linux makes you want to say some shit like "though this is victory, in my heart i feel nothing"