Ok so we went from talking about how intuitive/easy to use it is to how it looks. Looks are much more subjective and also depend greatly on theming even if it's just using a light or dark theme.

Back to the original question of is it intuitive. For a windows user trying Linux for the first time, most would prefer a DE with a start bar on the bottom by default, some might prefer the look of older versions of windows. (Remember that widows 8 and 11 had/have terrible adoption rates). And others really won't care much but will just want to be able to quickly find their apps.

I was a windows user for a long time. I only stopped at windows 10 cause I was sock of ads and candy crush soda saga acting like it was a core component of the OS. When I ran windows 8, the first thing I did was install an app that made the start menu look like windows 7. When I first tried gnome I'm 2012 it was so weird. It felt like if apple had made windows 8 with a side dock and a start button that took over the whole screen and these large buttons with a lot of wasted space with long transitions that my computer couldn't really render.

I switched to XFCE and loved it, thought this was more windows like. It did seem to be lacking some features and didn't look as modern but it was so much easier to use i liked it more. then I switched to KDE and thought this is what windows wants to be. I also loved all the settings that were configurable and how much control I had over the look.

I still use gnome for work (gnome DE is required) and have KDE on my personal and I got to say how much more productive I am with KDE over gnome.

Maybe I've been using KDE too much, but what's unintuitive about it?

The aur is a great place.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=yuzu

The 3 biggest hits there are

• citron
• sudachi
• torzu

Also remember there is also ryujinx

Unpacking was great.

I want some attack geese.

Yeah chickens eat pretty much anything.I give them garden and kitchen scraps all the time.if I eat shellfish I even give them the shells after baking them again ti make it easier to break and they love that.

I parboil my rice for 5 mins and then wash them before cooking after reading a UK guide that said it might reduce arsenic and heavy metals.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sustainable-food/news/new-way-cooking-rice-removes-arsenic-and-retains-mineral-nutrients-study-shows

Sorry to not really answer your question, but I'm just curious what distros and kernel combinations you've tried on your 2020 thinkpad that don't support the hardware keys? I never ran Linux on a thinkpad but I've heard that they are fairly well supported. Also, I wonder if it's an issue with you desktop environment, which ones have you tried? I've seen most hardware features seem to work on KDE but many didn't on xfce for example.As a bit of an anti-consumer, I would recommend trying a few totally different distros and DEs with the latest kernels just to be sure that it's really not supported.

To answer your question a bit. I've honestly not had issues with drivers of any kind on any desktop hardware since I started using arch with KDE. I don't even bother checking compatibility anymore. This is even true for Nvidia GPUs although there are some issue with Wayland there. For a laptop, I do watch videos of people opening them up to fix or upgrade them before I buy. If the laptop is hard to open or upgrade or if it breaks easily during the process because its only held together with plastic clips and glue then I don't suggest you buy it unless portability is more important to you than device lifetime.

• Filling up my pantry with shelf stable/dry goods.
• New stock of seeds for the next couple years.
• grains and seeds for chicken feed
• ammo

That sounds safe

To recap:

• starlink provided a bad connection
• one of the "best PoE players" died in the tutorial
• musk was savagely mocked

Elon Musk gets trolled while attempting to live stream Path of Exile 2 from his private jet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xal13ci49gY

I've lost interest in all cars made after 2014, what with the surveillance and all.

Heil Myself (Springtime for Hitler - Part Two) - The Producers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRlKIO3KE3g

Children are not dumb. Talk to them and answer their questions honestly in a way that won't make them more worried. Talk through any plans you think they should be aware of. And most importantly, listen to them, a child that feels safe and secure with their caregivers will tell them what's bothering them at random times, like during play.

It is in the USA, there is a standard hole that they attach to.

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/bathrooms/21016666/how-to-install-a-toilet

Its not as easy as replacing a lightbulb but about as easy as upgrading PC components.

I don't have any first hand experience outside of the USA. But from global news it sounds like this is a global trend in places like germany, France, Italy, most of south america, Africa, and Asia too.

Maybe I should say that you should align with friends based on your moral principles rather than politics.

If you haven't noticed the USA is in the middle of a fascist auto-coup.

So it's not exaggeration. I've had to cut ties with members of my family. Because they believe some people are sub humans that don't deserve rights or that regions of the globe should be purged.

Not to diminish your position however, I think the problem you are describing is caused by having a lack of a social safety net, not a reason to cut free from one.

Humans are a social animals, and we are more likely to thrive as a community than as rugged individuals.