My favorite has been Sandstorm.io ever since I discovered it. Sure, it doesn’t look as pretty as the others, but it’s super easy if you use one of their free hostnames.

Hmm… I may have to try Manjaro again, but the simple fact that there are 2 GUI package managers is not a great sign for total noobs. The main reason I’ve been staying away from it tho is the cert controversy and the arch repo ddos.

Yeah I know it has a GUI app for installing software, though IIRC isn’t it more similar to something like Synaptic than GSoftware?

I’ve actually had pretty bad experiences with Manjaro. No. 1, it cones with a lot of “apps” that aren’t obvious in what they do, and package management on Arch and Arch-based distros is very very not obvious to beginners (Syu? What does Syu mean. Wait, you mean I’m updating my whole system every time I want to install something? Where’s GNOME Software? Etc)

So… Windows?

Any particular reason you want Gab and not Mastodon that it’s based on?

Ahh got it. I never rename my devices so I thought that was a product name.

On a side note, what the heck is a Google Octopus?

On a side note, what the heck is a Google Octopus?

That’s super cool, and actually useful cause it tells you something as opposed to being inactive text.

I’m on android, so it is possible for there to be a difference here, but on iOS every browser uses safari for its webview, so there is absolutely no difference if you use Firefox or safari or chrome.

Sounds like I might be the youngest here lol. I started with Ubuntu 11.04 which I would live boot off CD in my school laptop. After I got my own laptop with Windows 8, I used Windows for a good long while until the thing got super slow after having windows 10 for a while. That’s when I got back in to linux.

An excellent summary. I think instance owners shouldn’t be too quick to block threads. ActivityPub was built around low trust, so why not give them a chance?

Personally, I host Sandstorm, and Discord music bot, and Minecraft.