We really need a Linux circlejerk community for this type of thing.

I know KDE has a page looking for contributors, including translators, I don’t know how much they need more Italian translators though.

https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved

Try KDE Connect if you’ve got an android phone, it’s pretty cool. I had to tweak the notification settings on my phone to get it to work the way I wanted, but ymmv, I’m just saying this because I’m usually happy with the KDE default settings (at least the Bazzite KDE default, I’m not sure how much the Bazzite team has changed their DEs).

Should I be worried? I was distro hopping for a bit and put together a Ventoy drive to make that easier, and I used it to boot the install iso for the distro I ultimately decided on for my gaming laptop. It seemed highly recommended and I didn’t know about the Ventoy bros at that point.

I’m going to disagree with you on the “is Mac better than Windows” front - I think there’s good arguments either way though. At least with a Mac, the end user is still, mostly, who they are designing for. On Windows the end user is becoming the product.

Yeah but that broke GRUB and had a pretty specific error message associated with it. I don’t think problems with grub look like what OP is describing (although I don’t know enough to say for sure).

Anecdotally, I’m running a Fedora Atomic-based OS alongside Windows and that Windows update didn’t cause any problems for me.

Found the Ventoy bro /s

New Nvidia driver?

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Go the Prince route, “the project formerly known as OpenSUSE”.

2 gb memory should make XFCE usable. That’s what my crappy laptop has and XFCE works fine. I use Firefox with a few open tabs and watch YouTube at 720p.

Well, it was for me. ¯\(ツ)/¯

I wasn’t able to find one. Which, if anyone saw my shitpost, is the real reason I installed it on my crapbook. I found out that the installer is pretty great, it just worked out of the box (at least on that computer, my gaming machine has an Nvidia graphics card…), and that GMOME isn’t really for me.

COSMIC looks awesome in screenshots though.

I’ve won NaNoWriMo twice and I can confirm that writing your own does not necessarily result in a cool or coherent story. One of the two is likely better than an LLM could come up with, though.

Wait, there still isn’t a Linux version of Notepad++? I’m kinda surprised by that.

Not yet, I’ll try live booting some of the suggestions like Lubuntu, AntiX, and Debian (probably LXDE) and see which one works the best. Debian is about as much of a challenge as I’m willing to take on for this project, but I figure I’ll learn something at least, and if I do get it running it’s probably going to be solid. If all else fails I’ll look at a Puppy.

Someone else mentioned the browser issue so I went looking for what was available (and I’ll probably try Firefox first), but I found Lynx, maybe that’s what you’re looking for?