Exactly. You can’t just go off of vibes or self-reporting.

It sucks that the data needed to be collected at all, but it’s not the fault of people who actually cared that fascists are now taking their work and using it to further fascism.

Same. I have my eye on Cosmic and will likely be hopping over, since I’ve essentially set up Gnome to work a lot like Cosmic

There’s TWMs which to me is what makes the linux experience, but those aren’t for beginners and I wouldn’t recommend you start with that

Gnome has an extension called PaperWM, and it’s a fantastic middle ground between common stacking WMs and tiling WMs. It’s probably most similar to River WM. I use it, and it’s been a game changer.

FYI, if you want to help get people on the tiling bandwagon!

I went to CachyOS on my desktop full time this year. Already had Bazzite on a laptop.

There’s been a few hiccups here and there, but nothing insurmountable with a little patience and practice and reading.

You can even get a modern gaming distro based off of it (PikaOS).

It makes me sad that some of the “nerdy” people in these spaces would join with the very people that would gladly throw them under the bus or use them as minority fodder, but as I’ve seen with experts in science, high intelligence in one area doesn’t mean you are capable of critical thinking.

ETA: to be clear, I’m not saying we should ignore scientists and experts, just that specialized expertise ≠ general expertise.

You need to think of the kind of people that are interested in nerdy computing topics. Regular people that just want to make something nice to share with the world, sure, but also incels, toxic masculinity proponents, etc.

They’re mostly able to hide, because like you point out, computer science and related topics are mostly apolitical; when you make scary changes, however, those same latter people can’t help themselves but to blame the villainous “They.”