I used to be really into theming. But now, the default Breeze and Adwaita look good enough that I haven't bothered wanting to change them in a couple years.
That and thmes always appeared to be some degree of "broken" that I just don't bother anymore.
I do always change the cursor to the black Adwaita one, even on KDE. It just feels right to me.
When I did still use themes, Numix, Arc Dark, and whatever "flat" themes that I could find were my favorites.
The difference between the Fediverse and a closed system like reddit is that it's open and we're privy to haphazardly implemented functionality and bad API documentation.
I work on big closed source web apps for a living; they're just as haphazard and badly documented, it's just all closed.
I never went to the homepage unless I accidentally landed there because of autofill. I normally just go straight to subscriptions. There are still recommendations under videos, so I check that out every so often, mostly because my secondary monitor is portrait and I can see them under the video
I've been using Trixie (Current testing, next stable) for gaming for a couple weeks. Everything (gaming wise) works the same as it did when I was on Arch.
Most of my time on Reddit was because of the constant flow of actually new content and "new to me" content (binging subreddits that I had just found out about).
Lemmy only has a constant flow of actually new content and it's slower.
I've been switching between Arch and Debian for the past 5ish years. I don't really notice much of a difference, other than Arch has updates much more often than Debian Testing usually does. I like how meta-packages in Arch are more minimal than the ones in Debian, but that's a very minor thing.
The only paid app (barring subscriptions like Spotify) I currently use since Sync for Reddit shut down is Kittens Game. It's basically the Dark Souls of idle games.
I joined Beehaw first because I like their philosophy, the admins seem pretty level headed, and they're decently large. But they defederated from/were never federated with a couple of instances that I was interested in, so I made my own instance and am here now.
I've been using Android phones for a decade now. My Pixel 6 is the best experience I've had with Android in those 10 years. I've had an OG Moto X, a Galaxy S9, a Pixel 3a, and now this 6. (I also had a brief stint with an iPhone in 2016)
The 6 and 3a have been the only ones that I've had without a manufacturer skin or carrier bloatware and it's been pretty great. The Pixel 6 is the only phone I've had matches that iPhone I had in terms of polish and reliability.
I've been distrohopping for the decade+ I've been using Linux. Keep coming back to Arch. Once I get the initial install done, everything works and I don't need to touch anything.
Yeah, I'd personally try out a live CD for a different distro (probably Puppy) to see how the events show up there.
I do wholeheartedly recommend changing distros though
I used to be really into theming. But now, the default Breeze and Adwaita look good enough that I haven't bothered wanting to change them in a couple years.
That and thmes always appeared to be some degree of "broken" that I just don't bother anymore.
I do always change the cursor to the black Adwaita one, even on KDE. It just feels right to me.
When I did still use themes, Numix, Arc Dark, and whatever "flat" themes that I could find were my favorites.
Circles, the thing I hit accidentally when blocking a corporate account
fr! I'll start calling it "X" when he calls his daughter Vivian
The difference between the Fediverse and a closed system like reddit is that it's open and we're privy to haphazardly implemented functionality and bad API documentation.
I work on big closed source web apps for a living; they're just as haphazard and badly documented, it's just all closed.
I don't think anyone liked it. More like tolerated it because of a combination of network effects and it being less shitty than Facebook.
At least, that's why I was on Twitter. People I wanted to follow were there.
I never went to the homepage unless I accidentally landed there because of autofill. I normally just go straight to subscriptions. There are still recommendations under videos, so I check that out every so often, mostly because my secondary monitor is portrait and I can see them under the video
I've been using Trixie (Current testing, next stable) for gaming for a couple weeks. Everything (gaming wise) works the same as it did when I was on Arch.
Most of my time on Reddit was because of the constant flow of actually new content and "new to me" content (binging subreddits that I had just found out about).
Lemmy only has a constant flow of actually new content and it's slower.
I've been switching between Arch and Debian for the past 5ish years. I don't really notice much of a difference, other than Arch has updates much more often than Debian Testing usually does. I like how meta-packages in Arch are more minimal than the ones in Debian, but that's a very minor thing.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias
Higher pay and a housing market carsh
The only paid app (barring subscriptions like Spotify) I currently use since Sync for Reddit shut down is Kittens Game. It's basically the Dark Souls of idle games.
I've been running mine on a cheap (€4/mo) VPS from Hetzner since my ISP doesn't let me host from a residential IP.
My NAS is loud enough without lemmy; hate to see how loud it'd get with it
I joined Beehaw first because I like their philosophy, the admins seem pretty level headed, and they're decently large. But they defederated from/were never federated with a couple of instances that I was interested in, so I made my own instance and am here now.
I've been using Android phones for a decade now. My Pixel 6 is the best experience I've had with Android in those 10 years. I've had an OG Moto X, a Galaxy S9, a Pixel 3a, and now this 6. (I also had a brief stint with an iPhone in 2016)
The 6 and 3a have been the only ones that I've had without a manufacturer skin or carrier bloatware and it's been pretty great. The Pixel 6 is the only phone I've had matches that iPhone I had in terms of polish and reliability.
It doesn't really matter as long as you're on something with recentish packages.
I've been on Arch for the past year or so and it's been working pretty well.
I've used openSUSE, Void, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu in the past for gaming and they've all been decent.
I'm just on Arch because I wanted a newer kernel and graphics drivers than Debian.
I still do. But then I remember that its gone and I put my phone back down and find something else to do.
Unless you're using one of their crappy ones that don't have QMK/VIA support, or want a custom lighting pattern; https://usevia.app should work.
I've been distrohopping for the decade+ I've been using Linux. Keep coming back to Arch. Once I get the initial install done, everything works and I don't need to touch anything.