UBlock asks that you give to the blocklist maintainers.

XP.

Windows was getting to be too much trouble to 🏴‍☠️, Vista didn’t look that great, I couldn’t afford to upgrade my hardware to accommodate the bloat, and desktop Linux was a lot more mature and ready to go out of the box.

The hero we need rn tbh

GOG is good too.

Right? Call it what you will, changing terms of sale or use after taking someone’s money is wrong.

i feel like he sounds like psychopath even now.

I think it’s rash to judge the tone of his writing like that. It can be a struggle to identify and admit one’s flaws, and it’s certainly a struggle for most people of the modern era to write elegantly with only pen and a few sheets of paper.

A person like what? There’s no connecting thread between morality, emotional maturity, and programming skills.

Looks like it’s written by AI.

I’m sure grit + wealth is far better than either alone. It’s really probably grit + wealth + connections + luck.

Xavier, Renegade Angel, biblically accurate? Maybe.

I’d like credit scores systems to be fully public and developed by the government. It would be far better than the three private systems Americans deal with now.

Why yes, cancelling, shunning, etc is bad.

I miss pidgin so much. I tried to use it the other day with Discord and it was terrible. So God-awful.

And that’s fine, but why do gamers use it over any other VoIP option? And why the infinity chat channels over infinity servers?

Only in a social context where “liberal” just means “polite”.

Debian Retro Universal Gaming System

Someone make that a thing.

xfce: what should it stand for?

Spice extends life, but I’m not seeing the eyes of ibad here.

all of the ideas on how to make that work

Tbf, that seems like it would depend on the flavor of anarchism.

Most of the top answers are good so I will emphasize something that others have mentioned as well, which is that one of the lovely things about Linux is that your GUI, your window manager or desktop environment (different things I know, don’t @ me) is up to you.

My personal favorite is xfce, but obviously a lot of people like KDE, Cinnamon, and Mate (mah-tay). There’s of course a whole world of options beyond those, when you’re choosing a distribution, go to the distro’s website, and look at the screenshots. If they have different versions for different desktop environments or window managers, look at all the screenshots. Try to pick one that has a look and layout that looks comfortable to you.

Also backup your home directory. And remember you can always distro hop.