Mastodon has been usable, and simple, as well.
I signed up for my tildeverse account once they spun up an instance, and I followed people I saw posting. And now, I’ve collected a fair number of followers and people I follow to see what they say.
Works quite well.
So, what isn’t usable or simple?
Define “better”, first.
I’ve been using Mastodon for about 5 years now, and what I’ve seen of bsky, is that it’s not better: It’s centralized, owned by cryptobros, and subject to the exact same problems as twitter is for user safety.
I have yet to break anything doing release upgrades on Debian since… 7? Or 6?
I’m going out on a limb here, and guessing you have a high end video card that is causing probably 99% of your problems, likely an NVidia.
I’m using KDE on MXLinux on a old macbook, and I don’t have these graphical glitches you mention.
I’d cut the booze, but yeah, I toke up. A lot.
Less so than nostr and twitter, though. I mean, everywhere on the internet is full of pedos… Even the fediverse.
Thats a pretty low bar lol
OneNote.
That’s really all. OneNote, on a windows tablet or foldable device with a proper stylus is the bee’s knees for knowledge management.
These aren’t printer drivers, but drivers for a Meson coax NIC that hasn’t been in business for a decade type of thing.
Really popular old drivers stay for a loong time, like the floppy driver that just got removed last year.
Nobody needing a modern kernel is using a floppy drive.
I do. I get the “but they’re just gonna buy drugs!” thing, let’s be honest: I was gonna spend it on that, anyways.
If a 40 is what they need, right now, to numb the pain of existence, in this moment, why not?
Zulip has been around for a loooong time. It integrates well with Jitsi, and is fully self-hostable.
We have Android and ChromeOS for those “just want an appliance” users.
The rest of the distros are for those with varying needs. Arch, Gentoo, for the full control folk. Debian for stability folk. Ubuntu for cloud. ELs for data centers.
Etc etc etc