TheMadCodger

Eh, Ubuntu used to be a decent desktop distro, but they’ve made some… choices. You can do better. Mint gets recommended a lot, but that also feels dated. It depends on what your use case is. GNOME vs KDE is a lot more important, find the one that you like better because that’s how you’ll be interacting with it all day. KDE is more like Windows, GNOME has a more Mac feel.

If you don’t want to tinker with it, you just want it to work and want to use your apps as is, go with an immutable distro (e.g., Bazzite like OP suggested). You can’t easily mess up the important bits that keep it running and as long as you reboot it from time to time you’ll always have the latest updates. IMO, unless you actively want to mess with the underpinnings of your system, an immutable is the best way to go.

Bazzite is gaming focused, but if you’re not a gamer, there are others (e.g., Kinoite). But in my experience, they just work leaving you to do what you actually want to do, not fight with it to make it work.

Yeah, I’ll take an appimage if that’s what I can get, but it’s not my favorite way to deal with it. I’m on Bluefin, so it’s flatpak and homebrew for me.

In the Lemmy word, sure. I was referring to Mastodon where there is no hot or rising. It’s just based off of who you’re following and when you check. Hence likes doing nothing but informing the poster of your appreciation.

Your edit is a bit like that in the Fediverse in general. Since there’s no algorithm, liking a post in Mastodon does nothing beyond letting op know you appreciate them. I like that.

Wait, what? I want to know more. A dehumidifier acts as a 5x wattage heater, but we don’t feel it?

In general, you should treat anything you post on any social media like an op ed in a newspaper. Once it prints, there’s no taking it back.