

Installation process seems to be way more complicated than the one I did for Mint in my mum’s computer some time ago. Hard to compare, though; sometimes hardware clicks well with a system but not another.
Dolphin and Nautilus handle compressed files entirely transparently and much faster than Explorer does
Even Thunar does it, through the archive plugin. Thunar. From Xfce, a desktop environment known for avoiding fluff by design. Caja too, even if it’s based on the GNOME 2 version of Nautilus.
Office, email: I guess installing LibreOffice and Thunderbird would be against the spirit of the challenge, right?
Managing applications is also not as nice and effortless as it is on Linux
I’m so bloody glad for package managers.
Windows 11 also has a combined emoji/symbol picker now (Super + .),
Somewhat unrelated question: does anyone know if .XCompose works with Wayland? And if it doesn’t, what do I use as replacement?











There’s a site called anilist.co you’ll find practically any anime series out there.
Since anime is a medium, don’t be surprised if someone loves a series you hate or vice versa. It’s like books, you know? And for recommendations it’s often useful if you list some series or genres you enjoy.
Unboxious’ recommendations look fairly good IMO. I’ll add a few ones:
Remember to have fun. Watching anime is supposed to be enjoyable; if for some reason you aren’t enjoying a certain series, there’s no shame on dropping it.
Usually it’s said three episodes is enough to know if you’ll like a show, but sometimes a single one does it.
Also, watch out for people shitting on the others’ tastes in social media, it’s simply better to block those.
In some cases you enjoy the story and characters of a series, but the production sucks really bad. In those cases, it’s worth to check the manga or light novel series the anime is adapted from. (Hoshi no Samidare, I’m looking at you. Such amazing manga series deserved a better animation.)
It’s worthy to dig into Japanese culture. It makes you enjoy what you see more. And if you’re into cooking, making the dishes you see in anime at home can be a really fun way to experience a bit of that culture.
The “no life weeb” stereotype doesn’t hold true any more. A lot of us have jobs, children, social life etc.
Some people flip the shit out if you use a plural -s in “anime”, “manga”, or “pokemon”. You can either avoid this or to pre-emptively use it to detect and block pass-aggro people from social media. (I never did the later in Lemmy, but it works).