Yeah totally, I think to use Arch successfully you need an opinion about what your system needs, and that takes experience with using Linux.

Installation is pretty trivial these days with the install script

Ironically this is how I feel about Arch, for me it’s worked flawlessly for years.

I don’t bother getting in ‘discussions’ about using it, because if other people have problems I’m not going to convince them that I don’t.

But you can roll it in glitter

I was comparing Signal to WhatsApp, not to Telegram

Signal isn’t owned and run by Meta though is it.

What can you do when this happens… Asking for a friend…

Very straightforward.

It is a unmodified Arch install that has a prepackaged setup, so you get a running desktop very easily and get the full.power and configurability of Arch

Could just as well use workspaces

Write with what you know

In time, I’ve come to realise that people that complain about snaps are not worth listening to.

99% of the complainers of snaps don’t understand their full use case, they are an invaluable resource for servers and embedded systems, snaps support features that flatpak never will do.

Show don’t tell

I mean… They’re not. Not counting the individual or course.

Well said, although I do think Gnome is for everyone, they’re just being stubborn 😜

Well I think that’s the issue here. It’s not geared towards a group of people, but towards an ideal workflow which is the Gnome Way.

If you’re someone that likes to have masses of applications or windows open you can certainly use Gnome, but the Gnome is more focused on one or two windows per desktop/workspace and I encourage you to embrace that way of working too

Again, it’s not about people, but the intended user experience.

I remember when Windows first introduced My Documents folder and subfolders for images, music, video. To begin with I rejected this folder because I wanted my folders in the root C: as I had always done. Eventually I decided to use these folders and I learned to appreciate the convenience of this, including all the additional thumbnails and meta data that the OS provided automatically for those folders.

You’re trying to use Gnome the way you’re used to using a desktop.

If you try and learn the Gnome way, you’ll have a better time.

To be honest I had the same problem when I first went from Windows to OSX, I was struggling, trying to make OSX familiar, but when I decided to learn the Apple way, everything became easier.

It has a few clients available for different devices, I’m using the Android TV client for example in my Philips Smart TV

Yes, but you need to know a little about network configuration to do that

All of you folks using Plex should check out Jellyfin, it may suit your needs better.

Yes it’s a standard of court cases