I like the idea and have been meaning to build / find something like this however this does a little too much and in not quite the way I want. But it's cool for those who need this exact implementation.

I've only recently moved back but I was using it before the KDE4 release and you could do it with 3.x. Shame

Using Gentoo might work if you enable the KDE overlay: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Ebuild_repository

Gentoo supports slots; which allows for concurrent installations of things like desktop environments. Not sure if it's configured that way right now though.

If you use BTRFS you could install gentoo on a subvolume and boot into it when needed too.

This. However from about the release of knoppix and ubuntu things started looking and feeling a lot more like they are today. -- I credit that to Knoppix for X & filesystem work and Ubuntu for setup and everything desktop.

So even though late 90s it was tough, it was nothing like mid 90s. But by around 2004-2005ish the install and setup was substantially easier however the reputational damage still exists to today.

I remember spending a lot of time in XFree86 config files, re-configuring it trying to figure out what works best on my monitor, and then the migration to XOrg. All good times.

There was however a substantial amount of hype around Linux. It wasn't quite what it is with AI. But you couldn't read a magazine without encountering it in some way, but it was the type of hype were everyone knew of it but few people had anything to do with it.

Another thing that hadn't been mentioned is that there was a new distribution cropping up every day or so. (It felt like at least.) But this seems to back up that statement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

That can happen if you make a major change such as major update to the binaries (ie a software update) while the screen is locked. Or because the screen "saver" / "locker" crashed.

That's a ... really well defined threat...

That's very coldwaresq behavior

I have never tired Daisy Chaining but I hear it exists on some of the models not sure about the specific one I linked.

Some monitors like the Dell U4323qe have a KVM built in, the KVM does Ethernet too.

Feeling that it's knowable and inevitable, so my gripe is can something knowable and inevitable be a black swan?

Where your friends are?

Most of the reasons mentioned, and also they are a bit out of the way to install and setup, you don't get much feedback as per users using them. As they integrated with the OS you have to search for them as a user, and you have advertise them as a someone packaging. Every extra step creates friction which ads up. It feels like a solution based in the concept of maintaining SEP. -- Plus people aren't exactly paid to do this.

What are your needs which aren't being met with flutter? -- It's really just a UI renderer and it has a C/C++/ObjectC/Java underlayer for everything else. It should link fine with existing c libraries. I have done a bit with it recently including desktop dev: https://www.producthunt.com/products/which-browser So hopefully I can answer any questions. -- Hit me up on matrix

It seems that Zig is the intended language? If go where a consideration I would point you at this to consider: https://github.com/go-graphics/go-gui-projects too.

Sounds reasonable. But I don't like the 0 in the name.

jdownloader seems pretty close to "internet download manager"

Also I prefer yt-dlp over youtube-dl

Praying mantis dispute this.

Thanks. I didn't know, it is also on my list.

That part was understood. I don't think I could complete 1 game in that period of time.

Burn read only backups.

Not sure 12 hours is enough time for me to grab much. Perhaps my backlog.