The app has always been trash. Idk how people can take using it for long periods of time. When I went back for a bit (during r/place), the deterioration of content was obvious. Don’t take my word for it - even redditors know it’s getting worse. All they have now is the amount of users.

You’re right. The devs know it can be confusing to new guys and are planning to do something about it. Idk what the progress is, though. They seem to be pretty busy making lemmy stable first.

Ubuntu. Pretty sure you already have an idea why. Lol.

OpenSUSE. I’ve always had issues trying to use it, from zypper to updates to bootloops. It’s also sluggish compared to other distros (yes, same DEs usually) on my laptop. I’ve tried at least 3x trying to get why a lot of people love it. It’s just not for me.

I’ve never tried Manjaro yet, but coming from Arch and EOS I don’t think I ever will.

You nailed it. I use FF for personal stuff, but I need a chromium browser for work (internal sites are wonky on FF).

But I work 8hrs a day for 5 days. I don’t even have 8 hours of total free time on saturday and sunday combined, much less use my pc for that long for personal things.

Same. I went back for r/place and to comment a few more “fuck u/spez” in posts, and it’s hilarious how bad the app still is. Still slow. Videos randomly won’t play. There are even times when all you can do when tapping the video is see a still image of it and can’t even get into the post/thread. They just really don’t give a fuck about the app except as a vehicle for ads. Smh.

As an asian, this has been my experience as well. Of course there are exceptions, but most asians I know (not just in my country) usually just speak 2 languages.

It’s great. I’m on vanilla Arch now, but EOS would be my first choice if I ever wanted to change to another arch-based distro. The only time I ever encountered any issue (that’s not my fault) was the grub issue last year iirc. Other than that, it’s been pretty smooth. It’s basically Arch with a few QOL features preinstalled.

Edit: just like you, I was on Mint for years before switching to EOS. It’s easy, don’t worry. You’ll want to start reading, though. The wiki and aur are great.

Hope you find the right instance for you. Welcome to lemmy!

1. Of course location is not a guarantee of fast speeds, but you can at least check servers nearby with https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map. I guess you can check for uptime to have an idea about reliability, but I never really relied on that. Shit happens (vlemmy comes to mind) so it’s hard to gauge an instance’s future reliability/stability. You have the option to start your own instance as well.

2. https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim