I don’t like this word either, selective screenshot or sth…

Because at the same time plasma succeded kwin and dolphin konqueror, the kool naming scheme became optional. The snipping tool used to be Ksnapshot, which was at least obvious naming in what it did.

That is true! I assume Debra had Debbie as a nickname sometimes, full points.

You look at your DE all day and your distro holds everything together. Op didn’t say distro is unimportant and I agree it makes sense for new users to look at images and videos of different desktops first, maybe try a live cd, and then choosing the backend that suits their willingness to interact with.

If your electricity and time are cheap, you want to learn and your pc-system is your playground not a productivity tool, Gentoo is a valid option. In this case, your choice of DE impacts your compile time massively and knowing alternatives beforehand gives you options.

Check if your university has a laptop program with sweet discounts, or look for other student discount offerings first. Could be worth it.

Is someone already working on a trapezoid desktop environment?

Most of the time, your grub is still there, even the link on your efi partiton. Only the evivars in uefi need to be reminded of their existance far too often.

Funny icon on desktop goes brrr.

Distcc should be in the handbook ;) Get some computer friends to help!

Quick! Recompile the furniture to replace the burning version! House deamon - kill all fire!

It is not hostile it is abusively helpful! It will force you into the best experience of the web, just sit still you silly goose!

When you don’t use windows for a few months, you’ll feel like that on first boot. ‘Oh, you haven’t used this program on your desktop in a while (lists entire desktop). You want me to clean it up into a folder, because you don’t use it anyway? I would also like to attend you to some urgent updates you need to install right now, and after that I have updates for your updates waiting, like 3 increments in a row with reboots each.’ And of course, during the chore of updating, Edge appears and becomes your default browser. Take that you dirty cheater!

It is normal for a beginner to only have 1 tool in their debugging toolbox 🤷‍♂️

Git good and solve the problems you create.

You’ll have such a bad start choosing Mint when you don’t like Cinnamon, this approach prevents that. They do a lot of things right for beginners/low maintainers but only if you can live with their desktop.

Choose your desktop, that’s the thing you’ll work with the most and could get in your way the most. Any ‘living’ distribution with an installer that fits your needs and delivers your chosen desktop out of the box will do. You’ll learn later if the distribution and community suit you, and if you back up your user directory you can easily migrate distributions without changing the look of your system.

Your distribution choice is your service contract, some will carefully swap all your car parts and wiring every semester, some will change your parts as soon as new parts drop and expect you to keep your wiring in a working state yourself, and everything in between. All of them allow you to make changes, but some service contracts will revert your changes or break your car if you changed it too far from their defaults.

X11 had some breaking updates in the past, my monolithic multi monitor config was suddenly in the wrong spot. Or packages I was supposed to delete before an upgrade according to the newspage, but I updated impulsively bam chroot times. That was years ago and made me switch, maybe it has become better?