• “Do you ever wonder why we’re here?”
• “One of life’s great mysteries isn’t it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence? Or is there really a God, watching everything. You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don’t know man, but it keeps me up at night.”
• “What? I mean why are we out here, in this canyon.”
• “Uh … Oh … Yeah…”
• “What’s all this stuff about God?”
• “Uh … um … Nothing.”

is Debian shipping with it default yet?

going for the UwUntu experience

Random SearX Redirector

well … SteamOS is based on Arch …

yes

so, to summarize:

• German: /suse/ or /zuze/
• English: should be /suse/ but more often /susa/ but definitely not /sus/

two popular choices for the container lifestyle are Debian Stable and Alpine (to the point it’s almost sacrilegious to run Alpine on the desktop)

Corporate Instances versus Open Fediverse

I think Openbox is the main survivor of the *box WMs – Openbox has become pretty much the default choice for small Linux distros, either with a few utilities like crunchbangplusplus or BunsenLabs or as the base of a lightweight DE like LXDE/LXQt

Blackbox is a WM, not a terminal! (get off my lawn!)

(if you’re really lucky, some models have NVME drives instead of soldered in storage)

• a previous how-to (Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu) mentioned just talking to the IT contact for your local school
• without going into a whole palette, search eBay for: chromebook lot of – people selling anything from lots of 4 to lots of 15, generally averaging $20 each (pretty much guaranteed to be expired, would check models against Chrultrabook for usability)

• can also use them as an alternative to Raspberry Pis
• if you can work with tight limitations, you can go down to $30 or less
• schools tend to be trying to get rid of palettes of the things because of Google’s policy of end-of-lifing the things after only a couple years

• yet another vote for Debian
• or if you’re going immutable (“atomic” is a better name) then wait for Vanilla OS’s Orchid to be released (currently in Beta) – a little more user-friendly than NixOS (although that will depend on the documentation)

• there’s the “add tiling features to a DE” path – Pop Shell / Cosmic DE is the best known, but KDE has some pretty decent options and there’s a couple Python scripts (at various stages of readiness) for Xfce
• or the “add a DE to a tiling window manager” – Regolith is the best known here (basically swapping i3 for Mutter), but along those lines it’s “relatively” easy to swap out window managers in the desktop of your choice (i3 + Xfce being an easy choice)

unless you are a developer, there’s not a whole lot to worry about – you’ll switch from one to the other when your distro switches and, chances are, you’ll never notice

the drama comes from the fact that the Linux community loves choices (and arguing over those choices) and, as @skullgiver points out, most of the choices have fallen by the wayside over the years

should be vaping cannabis, not nicotine …

“not everything is fully ported yet”

“There will probably be an awkward period before all of these pieces are in place for all of the people.”

I think these are the two key takeaways – Wayland is still in development and the bandwagoning are the early adopters – most of us will switch when our distros switch (and will probably be none the wiser)

the problems (and the reason we’re suffering through sensationalist stuff like “Wayland breaks everything!”) is the fanboy push to switch before it’s ready – not everybody lives on the bleeding edge (just like not everyone runs Arch) and the “switch now or be left behind” attitude does more harm than good (far more likely to alienate than convert) …

• a big feature of tiling window managers is the auto-placement / auto-adjustment / auto-sizing of windows to fit available space
  • their main focus is always having everything visible (nothing hidden behind overlaps)
  • and most of them take advantage of having a good set of keybinds so everything can be keyboard driven rather than half-and-half with a mouse
• before jumping feet first into tiling window managers, get an easy introduction with
  • Pop Shell – an extension that adds tiling features to Gnome
  • PaperWM adds linear tiling to Gnome
  • Material Shell – focusing on a more grid based workspace model
• DistroTube argued that the killer feature of tiling window managers is the workspaces, not the tiling
• check through the hotkeys of your current window manager – you won’t get the full dynamic features of a tiling window manager, but most of them have keys for snapping windows to top-half, bottom-half, left-half, right-half (as well as sometimes offering by quarter as well)