after hours of trying to enable audio, I failed

For me running pipewire as a service even with the aid of wireplumber didn’t work at all.

I had pipewire as an autostart script in KDE for it to work. ONLY that worked, not even launching it manually from the terminal worked.

documented well.

I’m gonna disagree on this point, I tried Void both on a VM and a spare SSD and I found the documentation was lacking. Or in the case of getting pipewire working I had to go to Reddit to find a workaround as none of the official ways to set it up worked on my systems. And it was far from the last time I had to find an undocumented solution to an issue I was facing.

I really like the idea of a completely independent distro purpose built instead of just “scraping the mold off” existing distros. But I had enough headaches with Void that I ended up on Artix, which mostly has worked out the same as Endeavour/Arch which I was using previously.

Hopefully I can try again in the future and have a better time, since I do applaud the developers for multiple reasons.

I have and ended up picking DeaDBeeF over it.

Think music players are the software I’m most picky about and have switched multiple times. I’m kinda stuck between using Audacious and DeaDBeeF at the moment.

Either something has all the features I want but looks bland or outright ugly, Or it looks really nice but is lacking in playlist management or some other weirdness.

I don’t think I’ll ever find “the one”.

I like Wayland just because it lets me easily use two monitors of different resolutions and refresh rates.

I used X11 for about 6 months when I first used Linux because I still had an Nvidia GTX 1080 at the time and Wayland wouldn’t even load for me then.

I did manage to get my monitor setup somewhat working on X11 through a lot of manual editing and the trade off constant screen tearing on my low hz 2nd monitor.

When I finally got an AMD card I loaded KDEs Wayland session on the same Linux install and it automatically set the max res and hz for both monitors including the new 1440p 170hz main monitor I got along with the GPU.

I get them on DVD from a guy selling them out of his car by the pub.

Had a friend recently try to send me this “arr-stack” that automatically grabbed the top new movie/tv releases of every month. Since he heard I was “doing it the old way”.

When I told him the VAST majority of shit coming out isn’t stuff I’m interested in watching he tried to convince I could just blacklist those things…So almost everything your bot grabs? instead of just grabbing what I actually want?

Yeah God forbid the poor still use a secure and updated OS…

Fuck Ai*

I think Gentoo users fall into two main camps.

Those with old and/or niche hardware requirements.

Those who like to micro manage their systems.

The guy who talked me into trying Linux years ago ended up on Gentoo after Arch ended up not being modular enough for him, He was constantly tinkering…and breaking his system.

After his free time got taken up by a job he ended up switching to Fedora.