I still have nine and a half months to make my final decision but I think I've boiled down my distro choice for my main PC to three distros: - Fedora (KDE spin) - Garuda (Dr460nized) - Linux Mint (Cinnamon) I still have a little consideration for Manjaro and Pop OS, as well. Reasons for Fedora: - Rolling release, but with more stability than Arch - Large userbase with great support - The KDE spin is an absolute breeze to use - Solid feature set - Seems to be quite supported by third parties Reasons for Garuda: - A non-gimmicky gamer distro with great preinstalled software - Arch-based for rolling release & AUR - Downright phenomenal custom Plasma layout - Also a solid feature set - Non-corporate distro - Uses BTRFS Reasons for Mint: - Extremely familiar and I have quite a bit of experience with it - Cinnamon is a great "just works" desktop environment - Fantastic levels of support and community - Excellent software store and default software - Remarkably easy to use I also like Manjaro and Pop for mixes of the different reasons above. Manjaro tests Arch updates before delivery. Pop is basically Ubuntu but better. My main concerns are that Manjaro is considering telemetry, and even with Cosmic, Pop's aesthetics feel quite static & bland. I'll say that, of the three main ones, right now I'm definitely leaning toward Fedora. That middle ground between rolling release swiftness and stability is extremely appealing. However, I'm primarily familiar with package managers like apt so learning yum/dnf will take time. When it comes to Garuda, it'd be an EASY "that's my distro" if not for the concerns of stability due to its basis on Arch. Plus, its userbase is small compared to the other two, meaning I won't have quite as much potential for help and support when issues arise. In terms of Mint, I really love it. I use it on a spare laptop and it really is a "just works" distro. However, even with customization, Cinnamon feels a little dated aesthetically, and I also think it'd be good to advance beyond a "starter distro" for my eventual daily driver. Like I said, I have time to finalize my decision but the main reason I'm struggling to decide is because I absolutely do NOT want to distro hop. When I settle, I want to settle for a few years at the bare minimum. #Linux #Fedora #Mint #LinuxMint #CLI #opensource #FOSS

I received a solid amount of new followers due to my recent posts condemning porn. First of all, thanks, I appreciate it and I'm glad to see so many have their heads on straight! However, I can't seem to get the full list of followers, it won't let me expand it. If you followed me because of those posts and I haven't followed back, please let me know and I'll correct it ASAP. Let's keep the crusade going! 🫡

Looks like I'll be spending more time on Nostr, I'm fed up with the Fediverse. I had a post of mine removed for calmly and civilly refuting the bogus claim that the Fediverse's leftist population is somehow a diaspora caused by Christians causing "trauma" to certain groups. I was pretty okay with my instance admin, he always seemed to be pretty relaxed and only moderate when content was genuinely against the rules, but if I'm going to be censored for choosing to argue against such a BS claim (which just further proved correct my original post about the Fediverse being full of hateful, left-leaning phonies), I don't want any part of that. Frankly, I had been feeling that way for quite a while but that post removal was the last straw. I have my issues with a portion of Nostr's userbase as well, but at least here, I'm not surrounded by people ready to swarm me for not going along with the acceptable narrative on a platform (Mastodon) run by a guy who thinks less thought policing is a BAD thing. #Fediverse #Mastodon #censorship #decentralization #politics

If you know me, you know I'm an AI skeptic, so this says a lot: I started trying Venice AI and I REALLY like it. Previously, I only used Brave's Leo and the search engine summarizer as occasional augmentative tools. I still use those for information purposes. However, Venice also offers image generation, and very solid image generation at that. While I don't ever plan to subscribe to any AI service -- ever -- I will say that I could see myself making use of Venice more often. A huge part of why I enjoy Venice is because of how it's more privacy-friendly and less censorship-heavy than big tech AI services. It feels like this is how the technology SHOULD have been implemented. #AI #Venice #VeniceAI #AIchain #ArtificialIntelligence