Happy paying customer here, it’s great to see the innovations they’re making and their interactions with the community.

Another recommendation for Linux Mint here. I’ve bounced between Manjaro, Ubuntu, Fedora, and I’ve found Linux Mint to just be fantastic for beginners, in that everything just works, and it does a great job of guiding the user through installation, updating drivers, updating packages (including choosing an appropriate package mirror), and setting up backups.

It’s just really nice all around; the only thing I could complain about is lack of touchpad gesture support, but that’s probably not an issue for desktop PC usage.

You still on vanilla, or have you started diving into Greg’s mods?

I gave Rust a shot as part of my move away from Electron and into Tauri. Man, the learning curve is brutal; the language and syntax isn’t too bad honestly, but the borrow checker? Ugh, it’s like my mum complaining at me back when I was a kid to clean my room all the damn time.

It gets easier as you stumble and look up stack overflow posts over and over, but it’s definitely a challenge. That being said, if you stick with it, Rust almost guarantees that your app will never crash, so I’m a big fan.

Awesome. Love the site, and I’m glad to see Lemmy getting some more recognition; always seemed like Lemmy was missing in Fediverse discussions