You know, upon further reflection, I’m pretty sure my issues stemmed from Wayland. Plasma was a very nice DE, and I think I’d probably like it fine without Wayland.

I don’t approve of shoplifting, but their cute new word makes me want to try it.

I’ll check that out, thanks! It does look nice. I have two PCs with Mint with Cinnamon, I’m pretty happy with. I have one more PC to switch over to Linux, I’ll probably try MATE on that.

Oh man, that must have been where I went wrong. I used a seagull, but I forgot that was for gnome.

Plasma kept crashing my system after waking it up from suspend. I tried fresh installs twice, with different revisions of graphics drivers. Plus, I had to install a bunch of crap from github just for my games to work properly. Lighting issues, texture issues. The mouse wouldn’t stay captured to one monitor in Fallout 4. Mint with Cinnamon just worked out of the box for me.

This clearly isn’t the country I thought it was, and I have been giving the average population too much credit. Apparently, this is a country of hatred, selfishness, and stupidity.

So, I guess I’m just going to follow suit. I’m done giving to charity, and being kind to strangers. I’m just going to get all I can get while the getting is good, and to hell with everybody else. I’m a straight white dude, I’ll be fine.

Oh, yeah. I don’t even have the network adapter drivers installed.

Old gnome is nostalgic to me, because my first venture into Linux was Fedora Core 4. I was still using Win98 at the time, and gnome 2.10 felt so modern in comparison, with rounded corners and soft gradients.

Coming back to Linux after having not touched it for a very, very long time I tried gnome again and I just do not like it at all. It’s weird looking. Maybe too modern for me, i don’t know.

I really liked XP. I still have a machine running it.