As a man myself, I fully agree. It’s also exhausting as an empathetic man to deal with this pervasive pseudo masculine enculturation.

I’ve found a nice home with Mint Debian edition. It has the right balance between stable and current that I prefer.

I’m kind of curious, I’ve tried Seeds over and over, but it’s unlistenable to me. Especially compared again Dear Science or Desperate. What is it you like about that album? I really want to like it because it’s probably the last of what we’ll get from them. Got any tips on appreciating it?

Jellyfin does.

Either Tool - Sober

Or

DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak

Wanted to fully experience life!

Grew up gaming. Stopped gaming for twenty years. Now I game again. I’ve had a great time. Climbed mountains. Traveled. All manner of relationships. Built a nice career. Now I find I can enjoy games without that, I’m wasting my life feeling.

All humans “waste” time. It’s odd to say reading is better than games. Or movies are better than TV. They’re all just mediums to convey stories. And really, there aren’t many original stories, just the same ones told over and over in different ways.

At least with games, you are actively participating rather than passively consuming. And yes I do read lots of complicated books, and watch fine cinema, and great television.

But I also garden, birding, botany, camp, etc.

I can confirm and I do use this feature of jellyfin. It works great. The reader is unusable. I use Librera for reading. It’s great, free, and open source.

So my flow is biblio, mam, library Genesis, Anna’s. Then to jellyfin folder that it reads automatically. Then I can download that to any device connected to the jellyfin server. Local is easy, abroad through tailscale.

Holy shit that’s commitment.

I had a beelink ser5, and without giving you the bench marks, I can tell you that many games that were unplayable on cinnamon or kde, did work in openbox. I would log out and back into that DE just to play games.

Just my observation. I have upgraded my PC so I haven’t needed to repeat that with my new one.

Having tried many, I found that the desktop environments matter more than the actual OS, especially on older machines.

Going for something really light, like openbox, lxde, or xfce, caused less frame rate drop and stuttering. At least on my lower powered mini pc.

Honorary mentions to:

Ubuntu Christian Edition

Ubuntu Satanic Edition

And

Hannah Montana Linux

It’s certainly older but Revolution OS is pretty thorough.

Seconded LMDE. Super stable, polished, and intuitive.