fully recommending bazzite too, if you hate it its easy to rebase to other bootc distros without data loss (still backing things up is a good idea regardless)
bazzite is just a braindead distro, its so hard for the user to mess it up and it has a lot of useful scripts in it. also a lot of the devs are queer and they just purged a maintainer that said some transphobic shit
i was bipartisanly banned from voting for the party i wanted (psl) so i sat out 
(psl was literally banned in my state we totes have a democracy guys)
Yeah I did mini-itx, its a pain in the ass to clean but its nice being able to pick it up easily. If you want to be able to clean it easier I think m-atx is the way to go. There are some affordable all metal cases which imo are the way to go so you dont have to buy more cases ever, coolermaster makes the best ones (nr200p gang). Never buy a glass sided one
Thats weird, might be a driver issue?
Love bazzite, I'm on fairly new hardware and have had zero issues for two major version upgrades. Lots of linux distros poop themselves after some time, really impressed with the immutables.
Funniest thing for me was installing arch and it breaking 3 weeks later with me doing nothing but upgrades
Handhelddaemon for bazzite works with that afaik
You should try bazzite, very hands free. Better for beginners than mint imo
I wonder if the US balkanization will start with Puerto Rico going independent 🤔
I've always felt the Caribbean really needs to unite into one country tbh to avoid the endless streak of colonialism in the region. Cuba take my energy 
You should try out bazzite on your main computer it's the most handsfree experience imo. I used to use windows like 5 years ago despite dabbling in Linux for decades, now I daily drive it. It's caught up a lot there's nothing that doesn't work now imo. Bazzites whole design philosophy is you shouldn't have to fuck with anything as an end user, their goal is to be as easy to use as android. Imo the Linux Mint advice is dated, and fun fact a lot of the devs working on bazzite and its subsystems are queer.
You really need to use tor browser or mullvad browser with a vpn to avoid fingerprinting these days
sqlite is all you need, big sql will try to convince you otherwise
wtf covid stop making me girly. a coworker said my coughs were cute, stop! 
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4051055
This is to help a friend find things for gifts for vegans in their life and so on. Mentioned here https://hexbear.net/post/3987758
Shoes are a gigantic problem when it comes to no plastic vegan clothing, pretty much everything is made of plastic when it comes to shoes. Rubber soles can often be mixed with plastic, and same is true with the so called plant leathers, which are merely a marketing gimmick.
Upon diving deeply on leather replacements, I've found that almost all 'plant' leathers are only 35% of the plant it claims to be. It does in fact change the quality and feel of the material, however, its still mostly fucking plastic. All of these companies doing these various leathers claim to be innovators saving the environment, but they all use the same fundamental process to mix plants into their plastic leather, hence the same percentage.
This includes:
Apple leather
Mushroom leather
Cork leather
Cactus leather
Pineapple leather
This all points to the idea that this is just bazinga stuff currently and a fad liberals use to make themselves feel better. The only options that immediately spring to mind that aren't plastic are certain kinds of canvas, cotton, and (non vegan) leather shoes which seem to be the least plastic if ordered custom with wooden soles. Most canvas and cotton shoes all look the same and aren't particularly feminine and many use plastic tainted rubber soles, laminates, and glue, so the search continues.
Desserto, the company who makes cactus leather, seems to sport a lofty claim that their more pure and new samples of cactus leather are now 90% cactus, and 10% PU. This is a much more sensible ratio, but I cannot find information on anyone that actually sells this magical material.
Next up on the search: MIRUM rubber leather seems to be promising. It sports a claim that it is 100% untainted-by-plastic natural rubber (unlike many shoe soles and tires). Rubber farming is of course an environmentally intensive process for many reasons, but it technically is a carbon sink, technically is biodegradable, and if done properly, it could be good. I will be digging into this next. If it looks good, then there will be a struggle about finding a place that sells it in a US womens in size 12+. Rubber obviously has a very intense history of imperialism and in the present so... I'm very doubtful of the ethics of this. But I will dig.
it really depends what you prefer imo. personally i like kde more than gnome (mostly cause its more like windows by default) but a ton of apps use gnome's rendering software for themeing. i also tend to prefer kde's suite of apps (krita my beloved)