Corpo’s and social media “designers” who would throw out their own mother because she’s “outdated”

Honestly as someone who doesn’t use Gnome… I can’t really tell much of a difference, Seems like a strange thing to build hype over.

So my first exposure to Arch was from my one friend who used Arch Linux daily, He was also the type to mess around with and replace core system utilities which of course led to his system breaking a whole bunch.

I avoided using Arch based distros for a while when I first started getting into Linux because of seeing my friend have to rebuild his system every week, When I finally tried EndeavourOS it ended up being the most stable distro out of the box even vs a lot of “just works” distros people recommended.

I’ve finally been able to daily drive Linux for over a month without having to switch back to my Windows drive at all.

I dunno why I didn’t jump on the KDE train sooner, I think it’s default setup is already a better user experience than Windows 10/11, and doesn’t feel like I’m fighting against the desktop like with Gnome.

The ease of tweaking even small things I really appreciate. Feels like an actual upgrade in the UI/UX space from what I’ve been used to from years of hacking together tweaks and programs on other desktops.

I think it’s mostly just the elitists trying to scare people to feel superior.

Linux newbie with a tendency to break everything throwing in my recommendation for Endeavour

I was warned by a bunch of people that an Arch based system is no place for a new comer but it’s surprising been WAY more stable than my time with Pop!_OS.

Life long windows user currently dual booting and trying to fully switch.

I’ve gotten used to the terminal and I’m no stranger to editing config files but I still find myself saying ‘This could literally be a toggle or drop down menu’

I can mostly put up with it but I got friends who REALLY hate digging into files for basic stuff like global dark mode, If it’s not in a GUI it’s as good as none existent to some.

In my journey away from corpo bullshit into more open-source stuff and trying to pull my friends along, I’ve come to realize convenience is a hard drug to ween off.

It’s almost impossible convincing some people to give up on cloud services because anything that’s more effort than logging into one account on a new device is too much. It’s not like these people are new to tech either, their patience has just been eroded over time by (usually invasive) convenience features.

Also gonna state I don’t think making tech more convenient is a bad thing, doing so without encroaching on peoples privacy and freedom should be the goal.