In any other situation I'd say this is great but as it's the USA i can only see this being a pathway for the powers to resume their psych experiments and psyops on the public

So they're allowing ai generated code into the Linux kernel. I'm sure nothing will go wrong.

Use Wine? Pro tip for desktop apps: Sym-link the folders you need into the virtual drive_c/users/username directory. Then you can access them directly through the dreaded wine file browser.

Very funny that gnome apps launch instantly in KDE, compared to 0.5-3+ seconds in.. gnome

I don't recall because I was new to the whole concept of non-systemD (systemD became popular during my long hiatus from Linux) so I saw all the options and just picked one. I think I started with runit and tried to convert it to dinit after having problems, or vice versa. I'm enjoying SysVinit tho. The commands aren't too different from sysD. The main struggle was getting a login greeter that launches a Wayland session. Xfce on Wayland seems to be awful atm but I'm (mentally) leaning towards composing my own DE with waybar etc.

Yes I think you're right. I hadn't looked deeper into it but this morning I saw a vid on YouTube saying that KDE devs are following suit with a buncha gnome things. Very sad.. I can cope on non-DE setups but normies who want to try Linux will be looking for a shell equivalent to macOS and Windows that feels familiar and provides everything. Gnome and Plasma are the sensible entry points for non-techies. Tbh given some of the history of Wayland's development I'm nervous what will happen to it too. May be time for Xlibre 😅/😬/😢

Having to do things manually does take more time and effort. But what if we remove the "having to" part of the framing? Try it, by choice. Do things on purpose, with purpose. Automation gives you more time to do other things, but do you really know who controls your automated components?

Pro tip: DEcrease automation in your life. You'll find yourself more in touch with things and people. You'll be more aware of what you're doing; and what your devices are doing; and what condition your objects, spaces and relationships are in.

i hope the kde dev community recognise the direction of the wind and don't make kde+plasma dependent on systemD. it's time to re-connect to the fully-modular nature of linux

Awesome! I've got Artix running in a test partition on one computer and in Termux on my tablet. It's a bit of a headache atm but I'll work it out soon. I've also got Devuan KDE set up on a second partition on my testing laptop and it's running as smoothly as (actually better than) CachyOS. I opted for SysVinit. No problems on Devuan so far. I'm wondering if there was some mis-configurations in Artix when I downloaded it, because most people online say it's great, but both my installations aren't working (yet). In the end I'd prefer to be using Artix as my main machine OS, and probably Devuan for my homelab cloud server OS (but I'm wondering if it's simple to use Devuan as a base for one of the NAS OSes).

when you look... you'll see quite how different the gnome devs are from the kde devs. kde & plasma respect the user -- that's us, the community. gnome fucking hate their users.