I use both niri and i3wm.

Here is my take: i3wm is amazing. It’s my preferred wm for keyboard and mouse workflow and professional work. Everything just works, your mind is clear, you have tabs which is literally the same concept as niri but cleaner. And you can structure your workspace very efficiently.

Niri is also great, my main problem is with wayland itself. I don’t care what anyone says, all my things work much more simple and with less effort under X11 and the fragmentation of wayland ecosystem drives me nuts. I’m not a fan of hacking your way into every single thing you want to do and exploring a plethora of docs for everything. But lets forget about this.

Niri itself is amazing for a laptop touchpad workflow. It is so efficient, enjoyable and cool when you have a touchpad. But it’s not as organized and efficient for serious work with many windows as i3wm. But for light work it’s just delightful.

I can hear ypu americanness from behind the screen darling.

Free means freedom not “no payments” it takes huge money to develop and maintain software and infrastructures like these. So they need funding to survive.

Major black mirror vibes

Chill out my friend. We use FOSS and privacy respecting things to make our lives easier and more enjoyable . Don’t stress yourself. If you need to do something then do it. No need to feel bad.

Something is always better than nothing. You’ve done so much in terms of better privacy and using FOSS so you’re doing great and better than most people. Just live your life and improve things step by step.

What are you talking about dude, I search gimp and ZERO nsfw things show up.

Im using xfce and i3wm.

I’m using Arch btw

Gammastep’s last commiyt is also from 2 years ago. Seems unmaintained to me.

The open source client doesn’t mean jack shit dude. Telegram also has open source client. Your data lives on their servers not clients and also, even if the server code is open source, there are many ways for a backdoor and violations of privacy in the infrastructure. When you give up your phone number, there is no privacy.

Matrix is great, you can use another instance though.

https://servers.joinmatrix.org/

Signal is most likely a fed honeypot.

They are super shady, blocked some important security researchers that found a vulnerability from them on all platforms, and they offer no explanation on why using a phone number is MANDATORY for signup.

No reason to trust signal IMO.

Just search IBM IoT and look at IBM acquisitions in the last decade.

Everyone “used to work for that company” on the internet. And even if you used to work there it doesn’t mean you know anything about their business. IBM is more of a Holding now. Like Volkswagen. Just because someone works at audi it doesn’t mean they know anything about Lamborghini.

https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-systemd.html

SystemD works great, but the corporations and politics behind it will ruin Linux if they fully take over. They are already optimizing heavily for IoT just because IBM is heavily focused on IoT

Hey my beard is far from gray 😁 Thank you.

Thanks. It’s pretty effortless with nitrogen

That’s so cool thanks!

I forgot to mention, I am using lineageOS with no google/Gapps.

How can I use it like my Linux comluter?

One of the worst news I’ve read lately.

Why aren’t Israeli maintainers removed? Oh because linux is basically owned by IBM now.

The linux kernel isn’t free anymore. It’s open source, but not free.