I think this could also just be regular image editing, just copypasting a tux into another drawing.

Can’t say I’ve experienced that. Is this one of those Arch things?

I think Matrix offers most of the functions you need, “Discord but selfhostable and with E2EE” is pretty much what the Matrix devs are going for. Though it kinda has issues with ease-of-use, performance and stability, so TBH I doubt it’s going to work for you.

I don’t recall that, but IIRC it does need to be a minimum of installed RAM if you want to be able to hibernate, since then you write out the contents of your memory to swap.

IF RAM used + swap used don’t exceed total swap space. Yeah, sometimes I run into that. Usually solved by killing webbrowsers, which suggests that most of the swap space is filled with unused webpages…

Damn, that’s hard mode. I just used web search to figure things out. IDK whether that’s still a viable method, though.

When I start fucking with chmod, it happens way too often that what I want to do only works after I executed chmod 777…

Inertia?

TBF, on Debian apt install firefox installs firefox-esr, and on Ubuntu it’s a placeholder that installs the snap package. Both work and are clearly better than downloading from random websites, but they do come with surprises for unsuspecting users.

… I’ll just duckduckgo it instead.

(I do sometimes use apt-cache search ^[applicationname], but depending on the application it might not help as much as you’d think, and it requires that you know what specific application you want, vs. something general like ‘a cd burning application’)

I do think it’s fun, but I’m definitely not interested in implementing byzantine complexity. When I have something I want to selfhost I pick a solution that’s reasonably easy and works reasonably well, and then enjoy that it’s working.

IMO apt’s search is just not very good at that (or at least it’s unintuitive). Even if you know the name of the program, apt-cache search often shows like 90% irrelevant results.

Tabbed mode basically replaces alt+tab … you could even rebind Mod+Arrow to Alt+Tab if you really wanted (if you didn’t set your Mod key to Alt).

Yeah, I’m not desperate enough for a preconfigured i3/sway distro to learn a different package manager. There’s also Ubuntu Sway Remix, it’s even configured without Snaps out of the box.

I’d definitely be down for a well-maintained, Debian-based (not Ubuntu-based) distro that comes with i3 or sway out of the box and isn’t run by a chud. Configuring your distro of choice with a tiling WM by hand everytime you install on a new device or virtual machine is a chore. There’s certainly a prominent niche of Linux users who like tiling WMs, and those have a lot of overlap with the kind of user who would be interested in a niche distro.

Also, many smaller distros are explicitly anti-chud (indeed even many of the bigger ones talk positively about “diversity” and “inclusiveness”), so chud users would naturally be drawn to the few distros that are run by outspoken chuds.

dpkg apt aptitude

I don’t use Arch, BTW.

Don’t make up terms when you don’t know what something is called, and especially don’t expect those terms to be self-explanatory.

Do you also get that it’s pretty hard to see the 5th or 8th level of fibonnachi tiling and use it to read text?

I use i3 every day, so no, I don’t think it’s hard to read text in it. Most applications are just fine at half the size of the screen, and terminals can easily do their job as a sixth of the screen depending on what you’re running in them. Even less when you have an extra-large screen. IMO it’s also better at organizing windows than standard DEs when you have more windows than can be reasonably displayed at the same time, because you can “hide” them with tab mode, with IMO has a smoother, quicker workflow than alt-tabbing in Gnome, KDE etc.

there’s not much flexability

There’s all the flexibility. You can even set single windows or entire workspaces/desktops to floating mode, i.e. the normal mode for most standard desktop environments. The issue with Gnome >=3 is that it doesn’t have that kind of flexibility, or the flexibility to decide what fraction of screen space you want to give to an application other than 100% and 50% and it’s not even lightweight in resource use to make up for the lack of features.

It says here that Openbox is to be used in Gnome or KDE. Can you use it as a standalone WM? I don’t see it in my listing in my little fedora UI testbed VM

I don’t think many people use it like that, especially not with such heavy DEs. Since Openbox is a window manager, not a desktop environment (which come with their own window managers), it’s unsurprising that it’s not mentioned in a list of desktop environments. IDK what the package is called on Fedora, but generally you install a standalone window manager by explicitly installing that window manager. Try something like dnf search openbox.

Did you just make that term up? I’ve been using window managers (mostly i3) for over a decade, I’ve never seen anyone call it an “OSGUI”. It’s a “window manager”.

Also no, standalone WMs (the ones I’ve seen, anyway) don’t encourage you to launch applications as fullscreen windows. Tiling WMs specifically are about putting multiple windows on the same desktop, visible at the same time. Most dynamic/stackings WMs (e.g. Openbox) literally have the same style of window management as what (old) Windows and standard linux desktops like Gnome 2, KDE or XFCE are doing.

Duh. What is that supposed to mean? Some kind of settings GUI? The graphical desktop in its entirety?

WTF is an “OSGUI”?