Alternatively there is weechat. I haven’t tried them back to back so I can’t tell you which one I like better

You don’t have time be on arch, gentoo, etc to heavily customize your system - you can customize on Ubuntu’s. That the beauty of Linux.

I’d argue that we need more /wayland/ tiling WM. But you are right that most desktop users (ie. OSX, Windows) just want something intuitive that makes sense. They don’t want to learn i3wm. But once you do learn it, it’s hard to go back

Why should I post someone else for DNS records if namecheap is handling it just fine for my use case?

Nope. I’m not sure if I should be happy that I’m not the only one.

I prefer to be called daddy. Godaddy

I like running my email server, because I justify it with my use cases.

If you like to spend time conversing with support about why your IP is on a blacklist, or why your email is being sent to spam (or outright rejected - I’m looking at you Microsoft), and then trying to increase your domain and IP reputations, be my guest.

Otherwise, a service is generally best

I mean, I use namecheap. I’m thinking about throwing one of my domains onto cloudfare just in case.

If you don’t like namecheap, some people have been suggesting porkbun or something.

It’s important if you’re building a brand, or if you’re dumb like me and run your own email server

I’ve lost my domain too. It took me two years to get it back. Hopefully it won’t be squatted for long

Time to register that domain before OP gets it…

Have you tried a key hook and a safe?

Sorry. Couldn’t help myself

Please advise on the second portion.

I didn’t know that the are text files with markers…

If that’s true, I may hate it less. I’ll have to try that

That’s not what I’m saying. Yes, it’s open source and you can build the binaries itself. I’m saying that the process is obfuscated or complicated because instead of text log files, you have to use journtalctl to view them.

Then again, someone said it may be text files with markers so I have to look into that

I see what people thought I was saying. Yes, it’s open source and doesn’t taint the kernel. I’m saying the way it works is obfuscated or complicated for the user. You shouldn’t have to run binaries to figure what the logs say. The logs should be in text.

Ok, fine. You got me there

Again, I don’t condone piracy.

It used to be that you could install a legitimate Adobe and use then the only thing you would need is a key generator that would open the software. In essence, the entire software is located on your computer.

I was under the possibly mistaken impression that they took away the ability to register offline, and put the license server online. In other words, you’d have to patch the code or fake the license server to do accomplish the method of years prior

Yes, I am aware. But none of these distros are distros I would introduce to someone new to Linux.

While its possible to find or build a distro without systemd, most of the big names that you would introduce people to use it:

Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, OpenSUSE

Hell, Arch uses it

I do get your point about GNOME, and I don’t use a DE anymore so I might be outdated, but Gnome and KDE were the big two back when I used it.

I say obfuscates because gnome configuration is now largely binary, whereas gnome2 used to be text files. The same goes for systemd- the logs are now binary files with journalctl instead of text files

Linux has been having issues for a few years now. They’ve been going an obfuscation route with GNOME3 and systemd. Red hat basically decided to contractually kick people out for doing the traditional CentOS thing ever since they decided to change what the official CentOS does.

The worst thing is, Debian also started using systemd.