I don’t know about Tumbleweed. Garuda isn’t difficult, unless you have to troubleshoot something. There are a few things to keep in mind, though:

1. It’s an Arch distro. Arch is considered not beginner-friendly to begin with, and Garuda does some things differently. It’s very opinionated, and, like I said, some of the design choices are questionable.

2. If you need to do anything on the command line, you should be aware that Garuda uses the fish shell instead of bash (which is the standard for Linux distros). You might also want to check out ~/.config/fish/config.fish, because there is some interesting, funny, and weird things in there. For example, ls is aliased to eza.

3. Do you like macOS? Because that’s the default setup: global menu, dock, etc. You can change all that, but it takes a lot of work.

There are a lot of good things about Garuda, though. There is tons of eye-candy. The fish shell is much more enjoyable to use than bash. The chaotic-AUR repository gives you access to even more software than standard Arch repos. And whenever you upgrade, it automatically takes a snapshot of your system, so that if something breaks, you can roll your system back to a previously-working version!

If you’re seeing ads on YouTube, you’re doing it wrong.

Do you have to use Wayland? If something’s buggy in Wayland, I always switch back to x11. Wayland’s finally gotten to a point where I can use it without bugs, but that’s taken many years.

Garuda is amazing, but it definitely isn’t a beginner distro. Also, a lot of the design choices are questionable, so I still wind up changing a lot of things after installing it.

That’s true for any social network. It’s only useful if a lot of people are using it, but a lot of people won’t use it until it becomes useful. That’s the catch-22 that keeps new social networks from getting off the ground.

Would the relays be connected, though? Or would each one be an entirely different ecosystem?

There is no difference. Anthropomorphics = furry.

I don’t know about that. The big issue, for me, is that it isn’t actually decentralized.

Instances are run through a central “relay” which is controlled by Bluesky HQ, so it isn’t decentralized like, say, Mastodon is.

Even if you aren’t Cory, you have to face leaving behind the people who won’t switch (which will be most of them).

Yes, because it’s so easy to get people to switch to a different service!

I tried to get my friends to move from Facebook to Diaspora. How many of them did? ZERO. Not even the ones who like to talk about how much they hate Facebook.

Look what it took to peel off users from Twitter! The last straw had to be Elon getting a dictator elected. And even then, it’s only a fraction of users.

Well, if you’re that curious, there is a book about it. The Wikipedia article goes into some detail about what the systems were used for.

They didn’t just truck people into the camps and immediately kill them, so they had to at least track capacity.

There isn’t a workers’ party, either. The US is one of the few industrialized nations that doesn’t have one.

There are actual statistics in this article, unlike these which I think you made up.

You sound like those people saying that COVID was no big deal because “more people die in auto accidents”. How many people have to be affected before you deem it newsworthy?

Bluesky gives you the option to choose an instance, too.

Mastodon has one big, official node, too, though: joinmastodon.com.

How is it easier to use?

What makes you think they didn’t feed them?

Yeah, this is just hearsay. Unfortunately, a lot of people will believe this without evidence because they hate Elon so much. (Which he deserves, to be fair.)

I don’t know how your KDE is set up, but on mine the screenshot app (Spectacle) pops up when I press the PrintScr key. From there I can easily capture the whole screen, a rectangular region, a window, etc. It’s like click, drag, click.