I’m convinced you could create such a food for humans too,

You could, and it would be very simple to do so.

1: Take all the food you’d eat for, say, a week. Absolutely everything.

2: Blend it. Maybe add some extra vitamins to make up for the ones that will be lost due to processing.

3: Dehydrate it. (To make it more compact and less likely to spoil.)

4: Compress it into pellets.

Done. You have now created ‘human food’.

Tally ho!

When they hide in a bunker, just bury the bunker. Pour concrete over the entrance.

I should practice building a trebuchet…

but I use it on Windows at work also.

Huh… And here I was, never even considering that somebody may have ported Kate to Windows. I should try it, for the rare instance I’m editing something on Windows!

when I want something I can paste into on the screen right now as Kate loads a little slowly

Fun fact I just learned recently: If you have text in your clipboard, you can paste that directly into the file manager (or the desktop background). It will prompt you for a filename, and then create a file with the pasted text in it.

If all you want to do is paste some text, you can actually do that without using any text editor at all.

Just because it has a different workflow that big players implanted in people, Linux needs to match that?

For newbies? Yes. SO MUCH YES.

I don’t care if you want to use Gnome on a distro for people who want weird and different. But for any mainstream distro targeted toward newbies, Gnome should not be the default DE. Precisely because it requires a lot of additional learning to use the DE, in addition to learning to use Linux.

Well, for me, each virtual desktop is dedicated to a different ongoing project. When I want to switch from one project to another, I just switch virtual desktops. Each project can have all kinds of windows open on multiple monitors, and none of them are relevant to the other projects.

DM should consider being a Halfling.

For a Halfling size queen, the world is your oyster!

It’s not the AI we need to be scared of, it’s the data.

That said, imagine an actual AGI (ASI) AI gets developed and (of course) escapes to the internet because the idiots who built it gave it unrestricted internet access.

If such an AI wanted to take control of the world in order to further whatever goals it has, all this collected information will be an incredible treasure trove for it. Like you said, many people can be manipulated an controlled with threats of blackmail. The few who can’t can then be more directly threatened by those acting under blackmail threats.

Set a window rule to have those particular windows be on all desktops. Then the others can switch while those stay the same.

it is innovative

Nah, it’s just weird. And doing a lot of things to be different for the sake of being different. Which steepens the learning curve for newbies. (And, worse, may make newbies think all Linux is weird and difficult to learn.)

Just because it’s different doesn’t mean it’s better.

newby friendly (Windows and Mac are both more complex)

‘Simplicity’ does not necessarily mean it’s user friendly. Especially when you’re telling them to go download and install more things just so their desktop can do things that EVERY other desktop in the entire world does. I really really wish this paradigm of “removing options = user friendly” would just die already.

(It’s not really user friendly, it’s developer-friendly. Because there’s less for them to build and maintain.)

It has efficient keyboard navigation by default

Every DE does this. Name a single Linux DE that doesn’t have efficient keyboard navigation.

And it has pleasant, modern UI by default.

It has a blobby, plastic-looking, overstyled UI by default. But that’s just a matter of taste.

(And if you don’t like their default UI … well, you’re screwed, because they really don’t want you to change it.)

I’ll make a deal:

You stop including Gnome as the default DE on mainstream, newbie-friendly distros, and I’ll stop talking shit about it.

Because it’s the bully stick he gets to hit other countries with to get his way … or just to retaliate against those who offend him.

Also because the on-again off-again arbitrary and unpredictable tariffs are a great opportunity for insider trading for those in his inner circle who are given advanced notice of his capricious changes.

Also because doing random bullshit with tariffs occupies the news cycle and helps distract from a lot of the other bullshit he’s doing or has done in the past.

Google: “Update to our new AI slop harvester now. We know where you live.”

*sigh* “I knew I should have evolved you into a Flareon…”

He can be associated with both…

I have to assume that kissing a Jolteon is kind of like sticking your tongue to a battery.

If you don’t stop right this instant, I’m going to make you battle in a poison-type gym.

Which features are unnecessary?

Well, depends how you’re using it. In my case, for example, I don’t have a printer, so I could turn off the entire print manager system/service and save a bit of unnecessary RAM. And if you’re trying to be economical about RAM usage, things like fancy window decorations, window animations, and other purely aesthetic stuff like that can of course go. But, really, what features are necessary versus unnecessary will depend on you and what you’re using your computer for.

Or did you just mean what features does KDE have?

In that case, the answer is basically, all the features. Like, KDE is the quintessential ‘everything and the kitchen sink’ desktop. You name it, they have it … or it can quickly and easily be added. Any feature you can think of from any other OS or desktop, chances are KDE already has it or at least can do it with just a little tweaking.

For an example, I think my favorite feature would be the ability to set custom window rules for each application or even each sub-window within an application. Setting rules that dictate the size and placement of that app’s windows, their transparency, which virtual desktop they open in, whether they show up in the taskbar or not, whether other windows can cover them up or not, etc. I use those rules extensively in my workflow to make sure each app always goes exactly where I want it on my multiple monitors, stays there, and behaves just how I want it to. (For example, I want my system monitor to be 80% translucent in a certain corner of the screen. I want my timer app to always stay on top, and in a particular location on a particular screen, I want my time tracking spreadsheet open on all desktops, but always in the background so it never covers any other window, and not cluttering up the taskbar. I want the terminal to always open maximized on my left monitor, and for it to be 100% visible when active, but 80% translucent when not active. With window rules, I can make all of that happen.)