I think I needed this journey to teach me what I really wanted from my PC, and I absolutely get why people hop around DEs and distros.
Exploring this landscape has been fun, and very educational.
Linux can be for anyone, but putting the time in to learn - and breaking things - thats true control.

COSMIC - gosh, I really wanted to love it. I think it needs some time in the oven still. It’s still beta imho.

Hypr isn’t a full experience on its own - which was neat to build myself once, but to do work - like actual work with it, reliably and without mental fatigue was challenging.

Really- I could just blame NVIDIA / Wayland for this. Probably more NVIDIA than anything.

KDE Plasma - should have started here but I was allured by the new, novel concepts brought by Hypr and COSMIC.

I almost went back to Hyprland, but the thought of maintaining dotfiles and updating them every few weeks when changes happen - and the suspend resume issues with NVIDIA are just unmanageable.

COSMIC feels like a great tech demo, but the UI bugs, the lack of clear documentation, and small community unfortunately make it hard to recommend still.

yes, this was my car.
I forgot to book a truck, and needed to start a k-12 install during spring break. They all fit, in one trip.

hell yeah - new sketchbook day!

Networking is one of few fields i know where this superhuman ability to memorize -so many goddamn things- and subsequently recall them under stress.

The expectation is brutal!
Its not for everyone - keep it up! You got this far!

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