Have you used AppImageLauncher? Gear Lever sounds like it, only much better.

stop calling it “my sequel”

Why?

Your other replies come off a bit more tempered admittedly. As for me, gnome annoys me in a few ways but I’ve adjusted to most of them and I just couldn’t get past the initial steps of customization on KDE. I would honestly prefer to have another option and to use both but I couldn’t see it working out for me. I’m like you, I definitely prefer that another option than my preference exists. Perhaps a future version will win me over. And even if not, choice is good.

I tried KDE plasma and I was blown away by how bad the UI design is. I struggled for like an hour trying to customize my desktop and it crashed a few times and even when it wasn’t crashing I was flummoxed by how unintuitive the customization UI is. I couldn’t get anything the way I wanted it and yes I agree: incredibly visually busy. I wanted to have a gnome alternative but it felt like beta software to me, and badly designed on top of it. Hard pass!

It seems like the answer might be something like “it’s too different from windows! 😡😡😡”

People who hate gnome so much always confuse me.

Just so you can see what I saw:

Very weird. For some reason Boost displays those like the strings I wrote. Looking at this in the web client now, I see ~. Which btw I’m familiar with :) Thanks for the response!

Okay what is this <sub> convention everyone is using and why is it sometimes </sub> ?

Fucking cringe answer

Piefed.social was too, on my end

I did, twice

You’re the only user catching downvotes

Yep, that sounds like the poster child for this phenomenon.

The users who are being talked about here probably don’t get that exposing your machine to the Internet carries risk. That’s the point.

Every response I read here seems to get it. Yeah, you shouldn’t do risky things without understanding them first. By all means play around with self hosting without knowing anything at first, but do not expose your machine to the Internet without fully understanding the implications and do not complain that self hosting is hard. If you think it is, you just need a bit more education. It’s already incredibly easy these days.

Did you think The Matrix was a documentary?

Because I wanted an OS that conforms to some standards, gives me freedom, and doesn’t give my data to a corporation

So lost.

… You just literally said hosting shouldn’t exist. You are using the Internet right now.

Also pretty weird to keep phrasing this as a command, discounting an entire class of use cases to be invalid because bad actors exist?