caseyweederman

Terrible timing. Just like the WonderSwan.

I miss Zip Disks. Those things were so cool and so outclassed by perpendicular progress.

It was probably from before Debian included the non-free firmware in the installation media, so you had to scramble to put those on a floppy disk or something, all while your system was out of commission.

You can jump to 25.10 for the short-term release, and there’s a preview available for 26.04 (officially releases in April), both of which have Wayland by default in Plasma and I believe Gnome.
Though I would strongly recommend you try Debian, version 13 (Trixie) includes Plasma 6 and of course Wayland by default.
It’s a bright future.

They did. It’s Wayland. Everything should work in Wayland now. It’s the default for everything, even xfce (4.20+), and x compatibility is handled by xwayland.

There are some very convincing Windows themes. Gnome, too. There are a couple to make it look exactly like the IRIX theme, or CDE.
Personally, I think the default layout is plenty simple. You press the applications icon, you press on the thing you want, that thing opens.
If you can take twenty seconds to set it up for them, run everything they’ll ever want to run, right-click on it in the task bar, click Pin to Task Manager.
Then all they’ll ever need to do is poke the one they want to run and it runs.
KDE also has a Mobile DE called Plasma Mobile. Looks like it can be installed on desktops and laptops too.

Yeah, raccoon support was merged into the kernel back in 5.2.

I’d say KDE Plasma 6 with one of the one-button global theme modifications can do everything you’re promising, while resulting in a simpler and more familiar layout.
More options help everyone, whether they use them or not.

Awww. Thank you for your service in the media mines.

…I also think Linux users are better than Windows users.

Because it is it.
It is not a separate thing that bears some similarities to itself.

Her hands won’t be full all of the time.

I’d plug a live raccoon into my computer before an Nvidia card.

You’re right, it is closer to texting. Which means you’re competing with private gargantuan monopolies with only $50 and a few friends.

I think it lacks adoption because people assume it’s trying to compete with the Internet as it exists now.
There have been experiments in delivering Wikipedia pages over sms.
If the current Internet fails (or is encouraged to become useless), Meshtastic might be the only way to get information from Wikipedia (mirrors).

Not for AI-generated JPEGs and YouTube ads, sure.
For organizing and communicating what actually matters? It’s plenty.

Doom door/elevator woosh

Bobcat growl

Sure, blame it on your ISP!

Oh nice, I think I’ve used that theme.
I was imagining something a little different.
I had in mind something like xfce’s XML files where settings can be locked at the system level, so when they’re generated at the user level, those individual settings refuse to be masked.
I think for Plasma I’d need a script that runs after the theme has been changed that flips the “group-by” setting back to “never”.