Thanks for this! Also have been unhappy with the Linux music player selections – at the moment I’m using the Foobar2000 snap, but I hate snap and don’t want it on my system. Trying this later today.
I’ve always stuck to Thinkpads for Linux – especially the T series is incredibly solid. That said, you really shouldn’t have an issue with a 2015 MacBook.
At this point, I’d like to see better regulation about usage of user data for training before this gets approached by the FOSS community. Ideally we should see a regulatory bloodbath where AI training data is concerned (using other people’s data or creation without explicit consent, and ultimately regurgitating that data, as LLMs do).
*I don’t think we’ll ever see sufficient regulation at all – but we should. Use of data in the way needed and quantities needed clearly call for it, in my view
It may be a sort of shy Tory effect. People don’t volunteer that they run Gnome because it’s seen as the default mainstream option, but if someone uses xmonad, they’re going to tell you about it.
For me it was Enlightenment DR16 (discontinued). you could make themes with shaped borders (transparent regions, buttons and titles anywhere, even overlapping into the window a bit), have it remember window positions, change border style for a window (e.g. drawer, so it can be collapsed sideways) and it would not steal focus. it had really good effects and features. I miss it a lot in Wayland. Check the web for some screenshots, if you want to be inspired.
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