I agree with this, but in open source there’s an extra layer of complexity: the “I don’t care about market share” dev attitude that’s sometimes admirable and sometimes frustrating.

Agreed, it’s such a poor summary of the article that I can’t tell if it’s an intentional strawman argument.

Be so bold.

Same deal here. Text is too big, tool icons are just about right, brushes and patterns are microscopic.

Not for everyone, but if “collection of perl scripts” sounds like your jam, GnuPod still works for a CLI option.

(For Android)

This door is already open, as GPS location is easily faked. Android, for example, has an easily-accessed developer setting for manually specifying a device location.

I was given a sous vide machine as a gift, only a power button on the device and no way to control it outside of an Android/iOS app over Bluetooth or WiFi. Not something I’d ever buy for myself thanks to the lack of manual controls (even though the experience of using the app is honestly very nice), but I’ve been preparing myself for the day it just stops working.

Hah! All good, I know exactly what that one feels like!

Nope, just saying I don’t use any transparency for my panels. I don’t mind it overlapping and hiding part of the window bar because the important stuff is all on the left side of the bar.

I use Plasma with a similar concept as yours, with two bars serving the same purposes.

My vertical icons-only bar goes in the lower-left, has chunkier, more glance-able icons (since pixels on the x-axis are plentiful) and this bar reserves its space from maximized windows. Think part WindowMaker/NextStep and part Unity.

Then a fully-opaque longer horizontal bar in the top-right with tray icons, a clock and a few hardware toggle widgets. Critically, like yours this toolbar stays on top of all windows (to make better use of my y-axis pixels), and my window decorations have left-aligned buttons and titles so max-height windows rarely have their titles cut off by the bar.

The official site says the DRM-free download includes both Windows and Linux (and Mac), just like the original game did.

Sorry, that was the best link I could find at that moment. Since the word “ubuntu” means something like “humanity towards others,” Canonical really leaned into that concept with their tagline “Linux for human beings” in the early days. This involved shipping some controversial wallpaper images and using less risque shots from the same photo shoot on things like the CD-ROM cover.

Ubuntu used to be naked people!

You can still uninstall, or you can clear the data.

And in both cases the user data is gone. I’d call that the worst case.

There’s a setting to disable it, but it’s unfortunately hidden under “Expert mode.”

Downgrading can be dangerous, since app data meant for a newer version of an app can crash an older version that doesn’t know what to do with it. This doesn’t really feel like enshittification, just saving users from themselves by removing the danger button. It’s not like F-Droid is forcing everyone to use the newest version… old versions are still on the website, and they still let you easily grab an old version in-app if you’re doing a fresh install.

Microsoft’s Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems are PCMag Editors’ Choice picks

lol

I understood all that from your post. I’m just saying that if the distros end up being as inflexible as you’ve described, you may need to look for a way to get flexibility at a different level of the “stack.”

You can add and launch arbitrary non-Steam games from Steam, right? Can you use Steam to launch a script that moves around files in the background and relaunches Steam? And have a named launcher to “switch” to each user?

I don’t know anything about those distros, but if there isn’t a good way to do it here’s a shitty one: maintain a separate OS partition/installation for each person and have the “login screen” be the bootloader menu.