Gnome and minimalism go together like the idea of drinking sewer water and being healthy go in the same sentence.

aka, an oxymoron.

Btw, what determines if something is minimalistic is how much it taxes the system on ram and cpu, more than the line of code.

Although, if you have complex code and a lot of it being used, the ram usage and cpu usage is bound to go WAY UP.

So... yeah.

Feel free to disagree, but that's my view.

@chomwitt yeah, mnt reform looks interesting. As for the rms witch hunt, it is definitely suspicious that gnome devs, redhat and microsoft were the main groups that signed that letter. Some debian people too, but they were the minority if i recall correctly. Also google as well.

Right, like I will ever trust proprietary software vendors to make good judgment calls.

As for searx, it can be used without google as one of the feeds.

@golinux just to respond to your comment to mine, that does seem random. Although so does the second comment to be honest.

@quickfur honestly, don't think Google has better search results than DuckDuckgo. Maybe the meta search engine searx, it might, I don't know.

The more time passes, the more I wonder if they haven't made it worse. I hear they filter search results based on their own motives and they block access to older pages after a certain point. Not sure how many search engines do that, but duckduckgo, has always had similar if not better results.

You can do what you please of course, but like golinux said, they are a destructive evil corporation that doesn't need to be fed. I lost some faith in humanity when I saw 70% of the world uses Google as their search engine.

Like the world isn't feeding their data towers enough... and by doing so, hurting the environment and I think every time that is done, people's brains over time deteriorate due to the climate. 

But yeah, on a positive note, very entertaining gibberish I will say.

@golinux (again) Btw, when I said 2nd comment, I meant on the link you mentioned, ie, soren's comment.

Yeah, I am gonna go on a limb and say that, ratpoison must take patience to learn to use, given that a mouse isn't used.

Btw, I don't use a touchpad or mouse, I use a trackpoint

Which does function like a mouse.

I see, that sounds about right.

I like JWM because of the desktop look and still having the blessings of i3-wm where key bindings exist, etc...

Also, the ability to start up applications when you log into JWM. i3-wm can do that as well ofc.

Long story short, these things are really awesome features to me.

When I think of "modern" I think of LXQT, LXDE, MATE AND EVEN MORE SO, Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE, BUDGIE, UNITY, UKUI and other similar or more bloated desktops.

Whoever thought the tablet look was a good idea, has rocks in their head more than brains. Just sayin...

@alexkemp I doubt that was what was meant by "adult"

But responsible adult might be better than just adult?

Because responsibility implies mature behaviour and not all people are mature.

Golinux would agree with this a billion fold, I am sure as he already said something on this forum.

@golinux feel free to correct me tho if there is anything off kilter.

@trinitdad lol is that one old.

Would not making an unused partition with 30MB cause it not to boot properly? meaning no display?

Seems that was the problem, I only used 99% of the disk and I had no issues from there.

@The_Amnesiac_Philosopher yep precisely.

He prepared a trollfest for his heirs for when he died.

Before the internet, that might as well have been considered trolling. xD

Yeah, I left windows because 8 was:

A: ugly

B: When I got the 8.1 upgrade, I became heavily suspicious due to the ram increase by 3X!

C: Someone I knew said that they were in an ibm meeting and asked if windows had a backdoor and everyone was silent!

That's what drove me to linux.

Although, if I had a choice between redhat's garbage and proprietary software pure and simple.

I would probably be hard pressed, but still pick the redhat method. Thankfully, I don't need to though!

Good lord is that a relief.

Although linux is starting to get ugly with their desktop environments.

Only one I would ever tolerate now is Lumina Desktop.

The others are just too bloated. Even LXDE or XFCE4. I realize now they were not my style.

Hyperbola, Devuan, OpenBSD are my primary options as of now for operating systems. Unless I am desperate in which case, I will use Trisquel as a last resort.

That would be the systemd distro I trust most. But thats such a low bar to clear for me.

@The-Amnesiac-Philospher Okay dude, that one is my favourite so far...

man... that one makes me smile.

I haven't felt such amusement since seeing the ending of A Night of Fright is No Delight.

Hint:   The person leaves a will for his heirs, but even after death the heirs get trolled hard by that same will.

@golinux despite by failings and rants sometimes, I am smart enough to agree with you there.

There are many examples even outside of politics, but I will be vague otherwise it becomes a rant to you.

Yeah, maturity is not a number.

Btw, didn't see this new code of conduct whenever you made it. I apologize.

Edit: I seem to have not noticed this happened in 2016. I wish I had looked, must have happened when I wasn't looking.