I worked with a Zebulon (of course, we called him “Zeb”) a couple years ago. He’s in maybe his mid 20s now.

What’s BST?

That sounds like a tank with extra steps.

KDE is available for Ubuntu. There’s even an edition that ships with KDE (Kubuntu).

Good news! The fediverse isn’t limited to SoCal!

Minetest is a good suggestion, but it’s worth noting that the base application won’t have anything playable on install. A few of the games made with it attempt to recreate Minecraft, but it’s not limited to that.

Also, while the core team has announced the name change, it’s still listed as Minetest on both the play store and F-Droid.

Pretty sure one of the devs is still in high school.

The question is about purchases.

That’s happened any time I’ve tried posting from a desktop browser. Works fine from Connect on android.

Neither of those are package managers. That’d be Pacman and Portage.

You know somebody’s putting barebones LFS on one of those drives.

I don’t understand how this point keeps getting raised. It’s no different from making an account on ANY platform. Sure, you can choose an instance, but if you’re already browsing then the “create account” (or whatever it says) link takes you to a registration page just like any other.

This, plus “hold down the fort”

The distro IS the OS, so no.

It’s not?

It uses the system dialogue, but it starts from the same directory each time. If I’m saving files it’s usually multiple files in succession, so I want the dialogue to start off pointed at the last directory I saved to. The Arch build does that.

I usually can’t find what I’m looking for, so a larger catalogue would go a long way. I also had problems with some software versions. The one that comes to mind is that Firefox had behavior with the save dialogue that I don’t like. It’s a minor issue, but one that I don’t have with the build in the Arch repo. I have a vague memory of something just not working, but I couldn’t tell you what at this point.

I wasn’t aware of it. It’s certainly an option, but Gentoo isn’t for me.

It’s Arch-based, but if
distro = base
then
Mint = Ubuntu
Ubuntu = Debian

Mint = Debian

Steam Deck is weird. I mean, I love it, but coming from vanilla Arch it can be frustrating at times. Discover is terrible. Luckily, Distrobox is a thing.