Robert (@robert@cornershop.network)

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Robert » 🌐 2026-01-07
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@dkub@woof.group I hear you. Unfortunately, for my 74yo mother Gnome (with extensions) is far more manageable than Plasma or any other DE.

(I used KDE in the late 90s, Gnome before Mate, WM when it was practical, and CDE on Sun thin clients ... looking at the current state of technology—and seeing as she is otherwise deeply entrenched into the Apple ecosystem—there really isn't another better choice.)

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Boy Praxis [He/Him] » 🌐 2026-01-07
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@robert There are things in GNOME I like just because I like being an edge lord neck beard. Lol.

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Robert » 🌐 2026-01-07
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@dkub@woof.group @robert I really tried NixOS and various atomic Fedora spins ... and the current state of desktop Plasma really isn't my jam. (Overall, desktop Linux is a hot mess; if I could really manage I'd do XFCE on OBSD, honestly.)

The truth is: enshittification has reached from Windows, the "cloud", desktop Linux, and macOS ... nowhere is safe!

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Boy Praxis [He/Him] » 🌐 2026-01-07
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@robert Honestly, I like Fedora because it lives in-between Ubuntu/Debian's "lags behind upstream so long each new release is pure hell to upgrade" and Arch's bleeding edge build your own distro from scratch stuff. But yeah, all the Atomics and NixOS are ... blergh.

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Robert » 🌐 2026-01-07
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@dkub@woof.group @robert A decade ago I ran Ubuntu, then switched to Arch. (My god, maintaining my own repo of pkg scripts ... why not go Gentoo‽)

I loved the idea of atomic builds, but reality got in the way. So, I'm a Fedora man now to simplify servers and clients across 4 different households.