ReallyZen

Thinkpad / Debian / Gnome: Works.

This is the one that comes to mind. I love the work of Allie Brosh, it was cool to see one of her drawing becoming a meme.

And the “A Lot” monster too:

Anything by William S Burroughs
Last exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
Anything by Charles Bukowski

On a lighter note, the Dancers at the end of times by Michael Moorcock, and any other tome involving Jerry Cornelius, its multiple avatars, or Karl Glogauer.

Spinning cube and wobbly windows is all I need (on top of 100% pure gnome).

My bad (seriously). What’s the slang now to “spend hours years fiddling with a zillion parameters so my desktop is exactly like I want it for the next 5 minutes”?

Oops, probably shows (again) my age. Is because “ricing” was ethnic something ?

Tuning / ricing is overrated. I used to spend hours years ricing my desktop (enlightenment DR16 anyone?). Screw that, Gnome it is: simple, elegant, functional.

I do add 2 very useful plugins tho: Wobbly Windows and the Spinning Cube. Shows my age I guess.

Not all of them, we were lucky I think. Yoga’s have it by their very 2-in-1 nature, nice little things, classy matte black like any Thinkpad should be.

All the best! My SO runs a T480s, the elegant one, for years now, switched to Debian after U went super-slow on her.

I went all fancy-schmancy with a Yoga x390, debian too.

Both cheap secondhand, both issue-free (and both with touchscreen!). Whish the official batteries where still available tho.

VLC for local, Murglar for streaming because it allows me to save music locally.

Dad here. I’d fall flat on my ass if some boyfriend came to me asking permission - pretty sure it won’t happen given the way we rose our daughters.

Fun unrelated to marriage fact: I once had my SO check the front window of a jewelry shop to “pick her favourite” - the stated game was that if we both silently picked the same I’d buy it for her. Some 30+ years later she still wears it on her ring finger. No stone, a ladder of white gold encasing gold stars.

Many imaginative solutions around :)

Bah, I’m too old. Had a commodore 64 at home tho.

It’s straight out of Hexbear so indeed Hell Yeah

Ice hockey

Ping-pong

Yeah, let’s go classic : Casablanca, Singing in the rain, Vertigo