Allero

Nice!

Zen for regular activities (I pin all important services), Firefox for browsing for something else.

GNU IceCat is also amazing as concept, but generally unusable since it ends up blocking too much and manually allowing everything is a hassle. But still, the pages that work are clean, and I love that by default the browser doesn't do anything without your permission - it doesn't even connect to update and telemetry services, it has 0 connections on startup, unlike almost anything (qutebrowser does the same, but, unless you are a strong Vim fanboy, you won't like the experience).

I don't think it's even possible to untangle storytelling from experience in TES games. Their magic is that they immerse the player in a way no other game ever managed to, in my opinion. Every stone is part of the lore. And when you put those games into the time context they belong, you see the masterpiece.

That said, Avowed did a fairly good job, and storytelling has also advanced in 14 years since the last TES game.

As a TES fan, ew. Don't attack people based on their preferences.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-08884-001?doi=1&ref=ositanwanevu.com

Most men are not much into the idea, either.

Intimacy is something very human, something most people are not ready to trust a machine to do, even if it's capable of visibly empathetic reactions.

There is a desire to connect with another human being, not programmed to like you, but actually choosing you freely. It's what people call "feeling it real".

Most folks I have seen pushing for robotic partners are incels craving at least some form of closeness - having something like this might be better than nothing.

Also, dudes, let's be real: would you put your dick into a machine much stronger than you? Something goes wrong and you don't have your precious parts anymore.

They are less likely to be much concerned, even.

Men, on average, have a stronger sexual drive.

I see, yep.

Thanks for the response!

Fair!

But still, an installation process that doesn't involve a package manager is a bit of a pain, comparatively. Flatpaks may certainly be very helpful, though.

I can absolutely expect Slackware to be solid; my concern is about user-friendliness :D

Not the easiest distro out there.

On the topic of immutable distros, I more or less understood them and kind of managed to work fine with them, but, honestly, I feel all they do is enforce a certain way to interact with the system that makes screwing it up very hard - but on the other hand, introduces a slew of non-standard and sometimes complicated solutions newbies won't understand (even for veterans it takes a while to get a grasp on them). If you follow the same pipeline on a mutable distro, you get the same stability plus the ability to do a lot of things without jumping through the hoops.

Right now I ended up on classical non-atomic Fedora for this reason. It features a lot of safe practices from immutable distros - system snapshots before updating, prioritizing flatpaks, container-oriented terminal able to work with Distrobox among all other things - but at the same time it's a mutable distro able to work with everything else.

Yeah, Gentoo puts serious emphasis on that, I have to give them a credit. I liked it.

But yeah, I'd rather not have breaking changes in the first place.

Some functionality (menus, networking) working not as expected, random glitches, bugs, instabilities...also, now coming from the experiences of others (wasn't there at the time), one time even GRUB had an update that broke it on all systems with Arch, forcing many to halt updates. In my eyes, from personal experience and experiences of others, it got a reputation as a quite messy system.