Yeah, that feels like a really weird choice.

One critical benefit of the rubber duck is that it doesn’t make things up.

You obviously haven’t seen me rubber duck debug.

Two questions: are you still on Gentoo, and have you tried LFS?

I run Gentoo as my main distro, and have for a couple years now. It’s a pretty stable rolling release (IMO more stable than Arch), and since you’re already an advanced user, the experience should be pretty rewarding!

The wiki is great, and the installation handbook is top notch.

You get to control exactly what features each package is compiled with, so no bloat at all.

KDE 6 just landed too!

Linux is whatever the Linux Mark Institute says it is.

You don’t need reproducible builds. You can get by if you trust whoever compiled it, like your distro’s maintainers or the pidgin developers.

Copyleft means: “if you modify the program and share it, you also have to include the source code for your modifications.”

The owner of the copyright (usually the developers or their employer) can still change the license later.

FreeCAD is an option, but it’s a bit of a mess. Does the job though!

Let me preface this by saying I don’t see the value of 99% of NFTs either, but it is technically possible to make one that stores the image on the blockchain or on IPFS. Most don’t, obviously, but it is possible.

Using your shared libraries is always a good thing, no? Like your distro’s packages should always have the latest security fixes and such, while flatpaks require a separate upgrade path.

Access to your entire filesystem, however, I agree with you on.

Unpopular opinion: Gnome software is pretty solid, and if your computer usage patterns overlap with their design, it is quite a lovely DE. I’d rather have something that works well, even if it doesn’t do everything under the sun.

Who’s out here censoring tits? The OP? That’s dumb, you can swear on the internet.

Someone else? Maybe go get a fresh screenshot.

Corrupted initramfs?