Can’t speak to all of your points, but the main thing I’d recommend is to try distro hopping with some of the common recommendations. If you have a spare drive that would be the easiest. Mint and PopOS are probably the first two worth trying to see how things go.

In terms of games, you should really be checking protondb for compatibility. It shows the C&C series generally looking pretty good. If you’re out of the loop, Proton is essentially an improved version of Wine that Valve maintains that’s focused on games, but it’s free for anyone to use.

For text editors, there are an insane number of options. I’ve been pretty impressed with Kate from the KDE folks. Ties in best with a KDE-based flavor of Linux, but works great everywhere. Codium is a fork of VSCode that strips out all of Microsoft’s telemetry. Also great to use and very powerful with insane flexibility through plugins.

Regarding fragmentation across distros, you’re mainly looking at RPM-based (Fedora, Suse), deb-based (Debian, Ubuntu, and a whole slew of others based on those). Most programs will be bundled up as a deb or rpm. Efforts have been made to make more platform-neutral packages for distribution like Flatpaks, Snaps, and AppImages. Those have their quirks, and people have strong opinions about their merits and weaknesses, but generally you’ll be able to get those to work on any distro without much fuss. There are some cool utilities like Distrobox which do a pretty good job of setting up containers for different distros so you can install and run their native packages.

Hammer fucking.

Least corrupt thing about Clarence Tomas.

Heard this discussed on Knowledge Fight but haven’t seen the twitter space call myself. It’s not something I particularly want to seek out. But with Knowledge Fight being a credible source, I don’t doubt it.

Assuming they did in fact appear on the same space together while talking to and sometimes over each other: either the Muskrat previously put on an elaborate performance to give his sock puppet credibility, or his biggest stan sounds almost just like him.

I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility that one of his worshipers would go so far as to adopt his speech patterns and try to sound like him. Or it could be a sock puppet run by his brother or cousin.

Every possibility is extremely pathetic, and I’m curious to see what shakes out.

While I totally agree that there’s no way a family is living in a tiny one bedroom home and the term is deceptive, “single family home” is the zoning term.

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