Own story (skip to the “—” if not interested):

Don’t worry yourself. If Mint works for you and you don’t have a good reason to switch. Just stay.

I started out with Mint as well. Switched from Cinnamon to Mate early on because I wanted to run a fancy compositor called Compiznand stay on that for like 2 years.

I still had a lot of free time, so I got “bored” by everything being so low maintenance compared to Windows 8. I checked out Arch and ran it for a bit with KDE 4 I think.

At some point I got a proper PC (was a crappy Laptop before) and wanted to Continue running KDE, so I chose KUbuntu because of that. I ran into some issues and a brick when upgrading that I couldn’t solve, so I went back to a rolling release distro to not need to worry about major updates again. I went with Manjaro as I thought it would be more stable than Arch (I didn’t have a problem with Arch, just craved max stability in general then).

In the meantime I since learned that Manjaro and Arch are about equally as stable from problems I needed solve and me sometimes running Arch on my old laptop when out.

I have been on Manjaro for about 7 years now (never re-installed), love it, KDE and don’t care about all the political stuff. I don’t care that people hate on Manjaro, never encountered a problem I couldn’t solve and will happily continue to use the distro until it breaks on me.

You can use whatever you like. Distro hopping can be fun, but is also a burdon and might prevent you from making your PC your home.

I wouldn’t switch especially for political stuff. Just use what you like. If you don’t wanna miss out, just watch some YT Videos of people testing out Distros/DEs or run some in virtual machienes. If you have a secondary device, you can also do hopping on that.

I hope this can help somewhat. Use whatever you like, don’t fret about political stuff. I used to kinda distro hop (not really) and now couldn’t care less about it.

You can easily check out other Distros using VMs, Docker Containers or even rented Servers for the most part.

If you have the time and are truely interested in Distro hopping (or just testing out a new DE) just go for it though. Just don’t let others dictate what you run.

GIMP 3.0

GrapheneOS does this by default as well.

Stupid guess: Maybe the changed mac is written to e.g. an EEPROM and it ran out of write cycles and bugged out then.

Same, used to love it last time. But this time I won’t participate.

I feel you.

But considering that the majority of instances have already blocked threads, there would not be much of a fediverse to federate with anyway once/if they do.

I should have guessed this would be a very unpopular opinion. Still think this is true.

Never used Instagram and barely ever FB. Never used twitter much anyway and a breed of Twitter and Meta seems like something I would never want anyway.

It seems people get some ego boost in saying: “We will not accept Threads in the fediverse”. But since they have not even attempted yet and have such a massive success, because they’ll probably dark pattern Instagram users into becoming threads users, they never need to consider using it anyway.

Odd. I can click the relative link in Connect but it errors with “Could not find a user with that id” and gives me a blank/nulled view. The search in conncect is also pretty broke imo and while I can find kbin.social things, the rust one doesn’t even show up for a pretty explicit search.

Not an instance issue at least. Opening over the website and subbing from there worked. Lemmy apps seem to still have a long way to go.

Edit: Btw, I read some post about using lemmy and that relative link is the way to go.

Exact same lamo!

Not sure how good it is that the only remaining Social Networks are owner by Meta (I don’t count YT as a Social Media as I never use it to engage in comments there).

Edit: Ig there is tiktok now, too. Still it makes Metas slice of the Social Media pie bigger.