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And what was she doing with it? /s

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We can’t recommend Arch to beginners. The maintenance is too high.

But yes, the support on rolling distros is great.

In any case, I’m surprised all the issues OP gets are from support for a fan? Something is terribly wrong here. I’d rather switch to any other fan (they’re cheap!) and blame the manufacturer. Move along.

For windows9x UI there are retro themes (e.g. xfce4 as DE can be themed with https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 ). For a distro, try zorin os maybe? Is focused on giving a modern windows-like UI and feel. In any case, my recommendation goes to debian or mint.

Desktop environments are tightly coupled to distros. At work, I got ubuntu. Got root, installed kde plasma. It works, but only because ubuntu is huge and has a “meta package”, and if you’re experienced enough not to switch the login to sddm, is all good. But even so, this goes to show that even if you can build your own system by swapping parts, this doesn’t mean is simple. Most linux users simply take a distro and don’t wander too far from it…

Oh! I should get back to it… Togrther with the winamp skins I had downloaded from internet archive.

Plus projectM from Steam, and Spotube… I could stop using the monthly subscription for (*1) an ugly UI that barely handles drag-and-drop and is a mess to make my playlists with.

(*1) tbh, the recommendation engine got me hooked at first, but my interest has been fading away.

Mullvad is trustworthy (imho, and because of audits).

Anyway, you can have both, and run purple i2p with blackjack and torrents!

The closest would be a folder, synchronized between phone and computer (e.g. using syncthing) where you save the torrent files. Then the client scans and automatically adds torrents from there. It will remove such files, so while at it, you should also configure to save completed torrent files somewhere. When possible, torrent files are a better option (they bring metadata, required if you ever wanted to re-share some content).

They were cutting files in smaller parts and spreading over multiple locations and countries. At least that was the claim in the early days, so anything illegal would require lawyers on many jurisdictions sending the same letter (e.g. DMCA takedown)

Ironically, it did work but now that Durov is in jail channel admins would do good to take precautions.

Linux made huge strides in the last years. But if we go back 10 years, or 15 things were quite bleak. And there are many reasons to that. It’s license is one. That’s my point. Correct or not, okay.

And Linux never embraced GPLv3 for reasons that are in common probably as to why this project chose a permissive license. So, I think we should all support them in that regard.

I’d love to live in a solarpunk world where intellectual property was abolished. In the meantime, compromises are met and it’s no horror at all.

I feel you, but maybe GPL is just an unpopular option (linux kernel never upgraded to v3, only a few oss web apps use affero, etc.)

As much as I love libre software, I have to say that Linux had bad support for drivers because of it, and its mainstream adoption for desktops was hindered for decades because of it. Only today, we celebrate a 5% user share.

An alternative permissive license doesn’t immediately mean companies will do the worst. We live under capitalism, perhaps we can’t just change that with a license. Their decision might future-proof the project to higher heights that are hardly seen today.

Look at Android, yeah it’s a hell of a locked down system when you buy a new phone. But it works quite well, and their user share is at the very top (or second to Apple? Maybe, if you’re American). However, Android allows us to have LineageOS and Graphene (which is MIT license, but that’s beyond my point, iiuc it could very well be GPL for all of its customizations), and no matter which license these forks(?) use, privacy is preserved and taken to new levels. Meanwhile, Android or any of these alternatives support ARM architecture with great integrated video acceleration that is low power. These are not simply “nice features” but a requirement (e.g. saves energy, improved user experience, competitive to other platforms, etc.) and privacy is not really compromised.

P.s. I’m suprising myself with this comment, nearly 10 years ago I was obsessed with libre software. Today I find it more of a niche hobby, or intellectual challenge. Valuable nonetheless, sure. And hell yeah I’d like to have a linux phone which fully supports all software and hardware… But then, reality.

On an instance level, you can close registration after a threshold level of users that you are comfortable with. Then, you can defederate the instances that are driven by capitalistic ideals like eternal growth (e.g. Threads from meta)

Neither project allows to set keybindings by a simple json or yaml file? Yet, these are highly customizable editors! That’s a surprise.