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correct, they’re fully interoperable

PieFed is the alternative for the alternative

Agreed 100%

Twice as bad when you have a VM running Gnome open inside Gnome host machine.

There should be a simple Tweaks option “hide Gnome titlebar” or better yet a per-window preference setting

What is the usecase?

If this is a primary driver for things like work or your primary personal email/web/productivity machine, IMO you want Fedora for stability

If this will be for games, there are good dedicated distros (consider Batocera if you love retro!)

I used to compile and contribute

Thank you for your past service o7

(I want to normalize open source contributors getting the same kind of recognition for providing a Public Good that we currently give to teachers, de-escalatory police, and following-legal-orders military)

Firefox is teetering on the edge

Get LibreWolf . They take FF builds and rip out the telemetry/ads/AI/enshit.
It’s… beautiful

oh and props for that… for doing and making new things in general

Just that distro-where-a-theme-would-do is something I see a lot of and people might wind up tackling a larger harder problem than they need to and not spending as much time & effort on the stuff they intended to.

And, a lot lot lot more people can easily download & appreciate a theme than move distros (though some perverse individuals make a habit of the latter)

Like a lot of Linux distros, this should have just been a window manager theme and maybe a helper app

Absolutely no sense bringing in stuff like init system and depmod and C compiler version when what you care about is UI theming

For anyone that hasn’t played with this yet

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/

TBH I chose Funkwhale for my solution because it looked easy and out of the box, I just add a single Docker and subdomain to my existing site.

It wound up being more or less what you describe.

I may well follow OP’s guide and nuke my Funkwhale despite the work I put into it and the fact that it does basically work for its intended purpose

Question: did you consider Funkwhale , and if so why did you choose this other stack instead?

EDIT: fix link sry