I switched to Arch[-based distros] when I realized I had been getting 90% of my support from the Arch wiki for years

most applications on Linux are design / depend on [GNOME’s] components

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Most people who “self host” things are still doing it on a server somewhere outside their home. Could be a VPS, a cloud instance, colocated bare metal, …

I used Mattermost for a community project, but had trouble getting people to install/use/learn yet another client.

Sure, and taking photos makes it a camera, and doing arithmetic makes it a calculator. But we don’t call it those things.