NixOS. I came a long way and it combines the best of modular, customizable and immutable.

Imagine running thunderbird and firefox on an info board

Lol, can agree, my grandpa is worse 💀

That guy is seriously impressive.

I want that code for the carving using a 3d printer!

Yeah right?? This might just be a small correction

Where does this work? I even tried the lemmy WebUI and didnt find such a feature

Well, PopOS is a distribution, based on Ubuntu, shipping a desktop. That desktop was formerly a customized GNOME, now they have their completely own desktop environment.

The tiling might be similar between both but their GNOME extension is probably deprecated now.

Cosmic has dynamic tiling, while KDE has many manual tiling features which may be less efficient but require nearly no setup.

This is not about GNOME…

Oversimplification. COSMIC lacks like 95% of what GNOME has that is important for regular users, like the vast extension ecosystem, GSConnect or remote RDP login as simple examples.

It forces all traffic through the VPN. System apps dont need to follow it, user apps do

Dash really sucks. Use it as an interpreter for /bin/sh and thats it

Alway on vpn, block connections without vpn

Yeah ok. But java uses weird graphics toolkits. For example many java apps still rely on X11 and look like crap on modern Linux, have no support for fractional scaling etc.

Ok. I had a t495 and that thing is just crap. Nice keyboard but it broke fast

Tbh the T470/80 seems to be one of the last real Thiccpad series.

I had one in my backpack and slipped on ice, fell straight on my back. Laptop didnt have any issues

Fork GNOME

No joking, have a look at GNOME circle apps in languages you like

No wayland, missing fuse2, pulseaudio, weird graphics libraries, java…

The only address book I know is thunderbird any maybe the GNOME or KDE suite (their Personal Information Management (PIM) Suite).

Maybe the small desktops have alternatives.

Thunderbird supports CardDAV for syncronizing contacts too. But it is unencrypted so I wouldnt use it.

Etesync is encrypted.

Careful with this!

You need to change the repo priorieties to REALLY low, otherwise your system may downgrade packages and stupid shit like that.

Trust me, I extracted PopOS repos from ubuntu noble based PopOS and installed cosmic apps on debian. It worked, until it started messing up my system.

Use nix, it is way cleaner. On Debian I basically use nix for everything because many packages are missing or outdated.

https://codeberg.org/boredsquirrel/dupes

The Gemini Protocol was there way before