LXDE sucks ass because no one has ever figured out how to mod a search bar into the start menu.

please for the love of fuck can someone please mod a search bar into LXDE.

technically, the command line on modern computers runs in graphics mode and not text mode anyway. It ends up being more efficient to do this because of fonts and font sizes and multiple colors and whatnot. It’s been like this for at least the past 20 years. So the ctrl+alt+f1 screen is still a gui.

You’d have to be a fucking idiot to support Trump while being PUBLICLY known as someone that uses marijuana. Once The Party has all the transgenders either killed or in concentration camps, marijuana users will likely be next. This isn’t just stupid this is advanced stupid.

I think it only works if you’re either an absolute KDE config file genius hacker or your distro’s repository has actually good default configs and setup. Installing KDE on arch always works well for me but every time I’ve tried it on Ubuntu I just get an unusable mess. One time I had it such that I had to retype my password all the fucking time to “unlock the keychain” and then the stupid update window would ALWAYS show up during the worst possible time with impeccable timing.

A long time ago I needed to install a program. It needed snap I think. Well I googled and googled and googled and I couldn’t just type “sudo apt install snap” for some reason. But there was a way to get snap if you had flatpak. I didn’t have flatpak So I googled and googled and googled some more and I couldn’t find a way to install flatpak that didn’t involve already having snap first.

So then I never fucked with flatpak or snap ever again except for that one time I installed gzdoom in flatpak and it actually worked for some reason, the end.

idk about 2025 but as of a few years ago, Slackware used to not have a dependency resolver in whatever it uses to download packages. You had to resolve dependencies manually.

Luckily I switched to Gentoo and 3 years later after my system was done compiling, it was already out of date so when I used emerge to update my system, it borked itself because it was so out of date.

ACKTUALLY they’re on the verge of dropping i486 support. Fucking bullshit if you ask me. Now they expect us to upgrade our computers more often than once every 40 years? Homebrewers ARE JUST NOW figuring out how to diy i486 motherboard chipsets.

Next thing you know we’ll need a 3090ti just to boot into Grub.

obligatory LXDE is actually also really good but you know what would make it 10000000000000000000000000000 times better? If there was a Windows 7-esque search bar on the start menu so you could search instead of painstakingly browse through all the stupid icons like its Windows 95.

I always post a comment like this in discussions about desktop environments in the off chance someone found a way to mod a search into LXDE’s start menu.

I hate Gnome because it doesn’t give you taskbar boxes to show all the open windows. There is a extension for this but it’s almost always out of date. How the fuck is anyone expected to get any work done like that? Pressing the “windows” key to show that tile view is a thing but I want to see what all is open without pressing a button first. It’s fine for watching youtube or playing games. And the ui looks really cool if you’re high off your ass, but that’s it.

Dolphin is the worst file manager, mostly because of how it doesn’t give you a file copy window but also because it’s just a shittier version of Nemo. Nemo is superior except that most of the time you can’t drag and drop files from a zip folder window into Nemo but only if you’re using KDE. Cinnamon is pretty much the only other DE I can stand and Nemo lets you drag and from from zip files all the time on Cinnamon but it’s otherwise worse than KDE.

Gnome is better than KDE wow what a typo. KDE is better than Gnome. With that being said, the dolphin file manager sucks ASS. The Nemo file manager is superior, except depending on which way the wind was blowing while you installed your distro, you have a 50/50 chance of being able to drag and drop the contents of zip folders into Nemo when running KDE. Dolphin always works when you do this on KDE but that’s Dolphin’s only positive aspect. The ui and button placement is worse, there’s no file copy progress bar window and the file transfer notification it does have is awful.

Cinnamon works with Nemo and zip file drag-dropping works all the time, but then you’re using a 10% shittier DE just to be able to drag and drop. Cinnamon doesn’t fully support wayland yet and its beta wayland support is terrible and slow so it’s a pretty bad one to be using right now.

I wish there was a fix. I would suck dick for fix to the “you can’t drag and drop the contents of zip files into Nemo on KDE except for if you got randomly lucky when installing the distro in the beginning” bug.

In the US it’s almost possible for 1 person to fully support themselves working 2 entry-level jobs at 40hours a week each, at least in places with lower costs of living. People act like doing full time college while working a full time job is normal and if you can’t make it work you’re a loser. A good portion of people get “really good” jobs where it’s possible to sustain yourself on 1 salary but it’s almost harder to get those jobs than it is to win the lottery and even harder to KEEP them. Many of them end up being a 70+hour a week gig anyway and once the bosses start demanding even more from you it’s all over. I have 2 degrees even. Corporations have destroyed our society.

The average Trump supporter basically does think you can self finance your way out of this: Electricity and a/c isn’t a necessity for living and people lived without that stuff 100 years ago. Internet isn’t a necessity and neither is having a cell phone. Owning a vehicle isn’t a necessity, simply walk or add 3+ hours a day you don’t have to your commute waiting on public transportation. The average person is always fighting weight gain, so cut food costs with controlled starvation rationing. Deodorant, toilet paper and hygiene isn’t a necessity either. Needless to say no one deserves to be happy and you should be spending no money on video games, eating out, or anything fun. But spend money on dating and having kids because our society definitely deserves you give them more workers. Also, privacy isn’t a necessity too so if you aren’t sharing a studio apartment with 4 other people you have nothing to complain about. If this is an issue than you should have chosen to get lucky and be rich, maybe pray about it too because God knows best.

This is unironically my boomer evangelical mother’s opinion.

At least we (not me, I voted for Harris) all did the right thing by forfeiting our chance at maintaining good living standards by voting to help the poor people in Gaza. I hope it was worth it.

ah yes lets make things harder on service workers just because they exist. Make some random stocker that’s already been repeatedly threatened to be fired for not meeting targets stop what they’re doing and come ring you up and scan all your shit. If they’re lucky the boss will let them stay over and work off the clock to get their stuff done. As someone who has 2 degrees and is underemployed because our society is corrupt and broken: fuck this type of behavior. Fuck people who bully service workers. I suppose next there will be a meme about bullying fast food workers for being worthless members of society. ha. ha. where funny.

Trump also appointed the same bug to be in charge of the nighttime.

One of the biggest scandals of Obama’s career is that he did NOT appoint the weird bug to be in charge of nighttime.

Even if we had commie blocks in the US, believing they would ever be affordable is pure fantasy. The corpofascists would just collude with each other and price fix things so that they’d cost the $3k/month that current lowest-tier shithole apartments cost and then everything else would get a major price hike.

Just because you have an economy that’s running so poorly it’s “about to collapse” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s worse. It’s a really low bar. By the time it stops working for the 2000 or so rich guys benefiting from it and they actually come to the epiphany that maybe just maybe they’re the ones running things into the ground there will already be nukes in the air.

Eventually you graduate to making the conscious decision to not instead of just being to lazy. Last time I had a job that paid a living wage was 2018. I’ll never look at society and the world as a whole the same way again. If I was considered romantically undesirable back then, I would be entirely in the wrong for thinking there’s a chance now. It was time to get over it a long time ago. I’m over it. Now I read books and study science so I have a better chance of surviving the impending collapse of western society.

There is 1 good reason to not do this if you live in the US and here’s why. Let’s say you don’t have health insurance. You get a diagnosis and you have cancer. It’s going to cost 10 jillion dollars to do anything about it because healthcare providers don’t give regular people the same prices as the health insurance companies get charged. Well lets say a year later you get a job with health insurance. Now you can’t have health insurance cover that because they can prove it’s a “preexisting condition”. Have fun getting all your wages confiscated due to all that medical debt so you’ll have to choose between dying in homelessness or having to flee to a country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the US. Or maybe Mike Johnson will let you live out the rest of your days in gulag out of generosity.

If you know something is wrong with you and are in a similar situation you’re probably just better off making the most of the time you have left on your own terms.