You know, upon further reflection, I’m pretty sure my issues stemmed from Wayland. Plasma was a very nice DE, and I think I’d probably like it fine without Wayland.

I’ll check that out, thanks! It does look nice. I have two PCs with Mint with Cinnamon, I’m pretty happy with. I have one more PC to switch over to Linux, I’ll probably try MATE on that.

Oh man, that must have been where I went wrong. I used a seagull, but I forgot that was for gnome.

Plasma kept crashing my system after waking it up from suspend. I tried fresh installs twice, with different revisions of graphics drivers. Plus, I had to install a bunch of crap from github just for my games to work properly. Lighting issues, texture issues. The mouse wouldn’t stay captured to one monitor in Fallout 4. Mint with Cinnamon just worked out of the box for me.

This clearly isn’t the country I thought it was, and I have been giving the average population too much credit. Apparently, this is a country of hatred, selfishness, and stupidity.

So, I guess I’m just going to follow suit. I’m done giving to charity, and being kind to strangers. I’m just going to get all I can get while the getting is good, and to hell with everybody else. I’m a straight white dude, I’ll be fine.

Old gnome is nostalgic to me, because my first venture into Linux was Fedora Core 4. I was still using Win98 at the time, and gnome 2.10 felt so modern in comparison, with rounded corners and soft gradients.

Coming back to Linux after having not touched it for a very, very long time I tried gnome again and I just do not like it at all. It’s weird looking. Maybe too modern for me, i don’t know.

I hope you have to point at the person for it to work, so they know it’s you.

I by no means want to make light of a terrorist incident, but that is a stupid plan. 9/11 set the bar pretty high for terror. Driving a truck through a crowd is basically at the same level as one angry psychopath. I mean, our own kids do worse in their own schools, so it really was a pointless act. It barely even registers on the terror meter for me. Terror just doesn’t work. Even 9/11! All that did was piss us off to the point of re-electing Dubbya. And now we have the TSA. I suppose if the goal was to make us suffer in the long term, I guess they won there.