I appreciate the advice. I rather like Debian, personally, and am kinda past the point where playing with different distros is enjoyable. Debian is an extremely

I appreciate the advice. I rather like Debian, personally, and am kinda past the point where playing with different distros is enjoyable. Debian is an extremely solid base on which to build anything newer I need, and it just works[1]. I'm resigned to the crappy state of window managers on Linux. I don't believe it has gotten materially better since the 90s. Honestly, to me, that's fine, if the annoyances stay at a dull roar (which basically means avoiding the slough of despond called Gnome[2]). I use a tiling WM called awesome[3], and for me it sucks slightly less that the other ones I've tried in the last couple years. [1] Additionally, on one machine at home I have Windows running in a VM with VGA-passthrough, and that's enough of a hassle to get working that I really don't relish learning yet another checklist for, e.g., generating initramfs or whatever. [2] Yeah, apparently some people honestly like it. Good for them. I have no idea what's going on in the project, but the actual product exhibits all of Apple's UX arrogance bundled with only a tiny fraction of Apple's UX ability. Whatever the story is, it took me perhaps 10 minutes before wishing I could do something more violent than `apt-get purge`. [3] https://awesomewm.org/ https://awesomewm.org/