You either spend your life really well or you have way too much time on your hands.

Either way I read your post with happy curiosity. 🙂

I love Vivaldi. Am sad it’s Chromium. Wish Firefox would take a page out of Vivaldi’s features book and innovation approach.

Fair. Just that the selection of quality games is rather limited.

IMO monetisation is fine, after all we all need to earn a living. To goad people into spending money is the issue. Enter dark patterns.

A one-off purchase after testing the first level? Awesome! Wait a few hours - or days - for a building to finish? Watch a deceptive ad for a meager reward over and over? No, thanks.

Mastodon struggles a bit to pick up pace.

Found this:

https://www.makeuseof.com/why-people-leaving-mastodon/

It explains some pain points.

Agreed. Horrible news.

Hoping Syncthing-Fork will continue.

I just installed that on your recommendation.

Hoping for the best.

Here the link for anyone who wants to check it out.

Im trying to avoid saying “this”. Still, your post reflects my thoughts exactly.

3 it is.

Which search results or which queries could one show the average user to make that point?

This!

Good I’m on Tumbleweed then. 😁

Seriously, I will test it in a virtual machine.

Good point. Which distros handle it well?

Pixar sees these put up all over their offices.

(For those not yet in the know, this IGN report reveals trouble within Pixar.)

Interesting. Gotta try that.

I have P2Play installed. It only supports 1 instance at a time. 🤷

Are there any clients that support multiple instances? It would improve my feed if I would see content from several instances at once.

You can. That’s what I meant with folders. But I cannot position these icons and folders freely on a grid like the Win10 Start menu allows. Still, Gnome comes quite close.

Thank you. I might just have to switch to KDE for that. Will install KDE on my current GNOME environment. Will give it a test drive.

Thanks for the suggestion. I looked at it. It is basically a simplified Windows 7 menu. Decent, but it doesn’t go far enough for me.

Gnome itself is actually not bad. It has a full screen menu and arrangeable application icons and folders, but I cannot group them the way I want, let alone resize them. I wish there was something for Gnome, but I don’t see it.

Perhaps I am asking for an edge case. Even Microsoft has dumbed down its Start menu in 11 to essentially a mobile launcher. Too few people seem to want that.

You need to cross a river that’s home to crocodiles. How do you get across safely?

You simply swim across. All the crocodiles are at the lion’s meeting!

This looks great.

Suggestion: a step-by-step “howto” with an example or three to make it more useful for beginners.

Jamaica… t it eventually.