Debian home server, macOS desktop, newer laptops run Arch and Fedora, and the two old MacBooks both run Mint DE. Oh, and OpenWrt on the router.

All good, and understandable. My Git is only local. Great for version control though and sharing across different machines.

Solid choice 👍

My Linux journey started with Debian (which is still on the home server) but I now have Arch and Fedora (Sway spin) on my two laptops.

The laptops basically run the same apps and I’ve been working on configuring/ricing the Arch laptop to my liking.

I’m currently setting up a local Git repo (following this tutorial) so that my Arch config can be used on Fedora.

The cool thing about the Git approach is that it’s easy to make it publicly available if you choose … and easy to roll back if you screw something up.

I also have automated snapper snapshots set up for the later scenario 🤪

You could also try Mint DE (Debian Edition) and get closer to the source (and ditch any of that Ubuntu crap).

That may be your personal opinion, but I think you will find A LOT of people who will disagree with you!

Of all the reasons to debate Windows > Linux you chose UX. Windows UX sucks, whereas Linux can be just about anything you can image with a little effort.

Even easier if you choose XFCE during install and then add i3. You get all the benefits of a package of desktop tools pre installed and the fantastic i3 window manager to get around.

Fedora Spins could be considered out of the box. Plenty of options.

Linux Mint “Debian” edition. There, fixed it for you 😉

I’d also recommend installing UTM on your Mac and paying string with different distros in a virtual environment.

I’d recommend Fedora KDE Plasma.

If only “greedy” was his only problem!

This is brilliant: “automating yourself from complexity only means you add layers of somewhere else”. Need to tattoo this on my forearm!

Conveniently removed

Don’t you mean the Gouda stuff? 😉

Thanks for reminding me of this. I did see the original post but, how soon we forget.

I heard a different take yesterday from Corey Doctorow that the real concern is global economic collapse!

Not something I’d considered, but I would say a frightening possibility!

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/

Sorry for your loss

Upright piano with the front panel taken off

Not a book, but Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies”