There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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  • My favorite is a really minimal Gnome on Debian:

    • Launch Debian Expert Installer
    • Deselect all software packs except “Standard Sytem Utilities”
    • Install and reboot
    • Install cups, flatpak, fonts-recommended, gdm3 (this pulls in the barest minimum of Gnome), gnome-console, nautilus, network-manager-gnome
    • Uninstall gnome-browser-connector, gnome-shell-extension-prefs, im-config, yelp (which were pulled in as recommendations)
    • Remove configured network interface from /etc/network/interfaces and reboot

    This gives me a Gnome shell with no visible GUI apps in the menu, except for the settings, terminal, file manager and network manager.
    Now I fill up my hard drive with FlatPaks ;)

    I prefer Gnome cause it has fewer options, the overview works really well on a notebook with touchpad, and I like that it is more unique.















  • Yes, they’re taking the source code from upstream, modifying (“patching”) it, compiling it, then uploading their compiled binaries to the Ubuntu repo where your system downloads them during an update.

    You can technically download the source code as well, if you activate the source repo. But hardly any end user does. And the source code you get doesn’t compile to the same binary you get from the repo anyway. (This would be called a “reproducible build”. Some distros try to be reproducible. Ubuntu doesn’t, they have other priorities.)