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🖥️ Desktop: Ryzen 7 5800X3D · 64GB DDR4 · RX 6700XT · Debian Testing
⌨️ Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro · Asus ROG Azoth
💻 Laptop: ThinkPad T470s · 20GB DDR4 · Debian Trixie

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  • Guess I’m going against the grain here, but in my experiences, no not really.

    At least here in Aus I’ve never noticed any correlation between animal friendliness and religion. My family for example is very religious (I’m not), and quite conservative (I’m definitely not lol), but they care for animals better than they care for other people.

    What I have noticed is more fear from other cultures. For example, I have an Indian neighbour who never grew up around dogs, especially big dogs. When I first picked up my German Shepherd as an 8 week old pup, they were scared shitless of him! Scared of a cute little fur ball, with paws too big for his body just flailing around bumping into things, literally one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen!

    Not dismissing the question on religion being linked to animal friendliness, but maybe region and cultural factors are also playing a role here?



















  • Over the years, I don’t think there’s many DE’s or WM’s that I haven’t tried to live with on a daily driver, such as KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, Qtile, XMonad, I3, AwesomeWM, etc etc. What I found over the years was how much I appreciated a clean, simplistic UI for an operating system.

    After spending multiple years on ‘window manager only’ setups (got fed up with updating configs on major updates, and got fed up with the amount of config I had to do), I returned back to KDE mainly for the intense amount of OOTB customisation. However, what I realised after a while was that I was just setting up KDE to look and behave like Gnome.

    So 2 years after last using KDE, I’m now just using Gnome all the time. I like the workflow, on laptop personally I think the gesture navigation is better than any other DE, and I love the simplistic design. Plus extensions get me what isn’t included OOTB.

    Downside to Gnome is when major updates occur and extensions break as a result, other than that I can’t think of much bad about Gnome