Irfanview is honestly a huge loss, I’m honestly shocked I haven’t been able to find something even close to comparable.

Even returning to JVM languages would be huge over the current js based electron slop. Things are so bad “optimized software” doesn’t need to mean C++ or Rust.

The Dynamicland website reminds me of the worst of the 00’s, it really turned me off to the whole project

Sourcehut is really the only step between just using an ssh server and something like forgejo that I know of.

Never had as bad an experience with Linux as on a Macbook, and that includes Dell laptops in the early '10s. Sound doesn’t work, sleep doesn’t work either. Beyond that the keyboard is screwed up and double types all the time, which is totally unreasonable on a laptop ~5 years old.

Especially when most games that’ve come out this year run like shit, and a new graphics card is nearly a rent payment

technically libreoffice exists, they really need to fix office comparability though

Kagi is the same as ddg 99% of the time.

I’ve been happy with Qwant lately, they have their own index so using them doesn’t support the Google + Bing hegemony. They’re also EU based and regulated by the gdpr.