Not a mean question at all. I haven’t had more difficulty keeping a working system than I did on Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, etc. I get everything I need in Arch and the packages are always fresh off the grill. I also like the emphasis on text config files and a ground-up install. That helped me better understand my system and how it works.
No idea about performance. My performance recommendation is “don’t run Windows!” :)
I noticed the same thing with KDE and Wayland. Sometimes my curser still grows 10 sizes or shrinks as I pass over certain windows or between monitors but things are more consistent and predictable than they used to be.
Strawberry is great and so was Clementine before it. It’s really a step up compared to what the average distro bakes into their default bundle of applications.
I appreciate their philosophy. I’ve been a Linux user since the early 2000s and have cycled through 30-40 distros at least. I’m not a highly technical user. I would consider myself a solid intermediate. For a daily use system I prefer arch, but my servers run Debian. Most of the people writing install guides for the software I deploy seem to use Debian so I run into less issues this way. It can be hard to follow a guide for Gentoo when you’re using Hanna Montana Linux, know what I’m saying? Same thing with Debian. It’s just a solid choice with the bonus of having a better, more ethical philosophy, and the benefit of being widely adopted and supported by people who can help when you get stuck. I don’t even mind gnome on my servers since it works well with a single screen and it’s super rare that I actually need the server GUI anyway.
Willingness to independently learn and the capacity to let the frustration roll off of you. You will occasionally want to bang your head against the wall, but give yourself the grace to learn.
No shade to Gnome, because there is a place for them in the ecosystem, but this is why I moved from Gnome 2 to KDE (with a few stops along the way). One size will not fit all.
KDE for the desktop and xfce for the laptop
I’ve been a Linux user since 2005ish and a DJ since at least 2013. I’ve tried a lot of music players including Rythmbox. I settled on Clementine/Strawberry or Amorok, depending on use case. Haven’t used either of them recently.
With that said, there is no right answer. Find one you like!
I’ll give it a shot. I don’t run groups anymore since they stick with the elected leader of our group and that is no longer me! :-)
I’ve been playing with this loosely affiliated group for close to a decade if not more. We started on mumble and reddit, and it actually changed the group when we switched to discord. It really disincentivises long quality posts in favor of shitposting. Also the reason I’m on Lemmy. Gotta get my long format, threaded discussions somewhere!
Graphene is pretty cool,but in regards to the whitespace thing and as a general rant:
Linux and the web are doing this too. Thankfully KDE hadn’t been effected as horribly as Gnome… shudder. 10 years ago, Spotify Linux version could fit about as many songs on a single screen as a average spreadsheet has rows. 5 years ago or was only like 10-15 songs despite my resolution going from 1440p to 4k. Now I don’t use Spotify at all but these lobotomized clowns who all studied at the same school of bullshit design and nonsensical interface editing are trying to ruin everything else I love. Leave the padding and text size alone you fucking wankers! :-D