Bragging about Linux is hard

Also in case anyone wants the original wallpaper posted in the image, it's "By Upload2" from an art book called The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag. I fucking love all his art
- Thanks, I knew the art, but never bothered to make a note of the artist.

Just delete Discord now, promote Revolt
- The problem is the law of popularity. My friends wont move to an open-source decentralized alternative unless their friends do and their friends wont unless their friends do and...
  
  Baa's Law
  
  Be the friend you want your friends to be, ask not what your friends can do for you but what you can do for your friends, that's one small step for Linux Users One Giant leap for friendkind, what is Oswald doing in that Book Depository?
  
  Its very easy, also the same for all communication. You move and if your friends want to keep contact to you, they will at least use both. Otherwise they never were your friends, unfortunately. Friends dont abandon friends that are not happy in one place. Most likely, people will THINK it is the reason they cant leave. But its actually just an excuse because they are scared or lazy or insecure. All understandable but you dont get to claim you stay because your friends do.
  Once they grasp the idea, some will move. Just get off of these shitty apps and see the excuse for the pile of shit that it is.
- Revolt is centralized and can suffer the same fate as discord. Cinny for Matrix is currently the best Ive found.
- As much as I dislike about Discord, I can't deny that its level of service, polish and ease of use are just superb. Especially for voice chat with friends with integrated screen sharing that just works.
  There are show stoppers sometimes - occasionally messages just don't get sent or received for whatever reason, and Discord's handling of it is just bad. It's pretty important for a chat app to work reliably for chat. But when it works (which is almost always), boy is it nice.
  Haven't tried Revolt and I likely can't because of the network effect already mentioned by someone else. How does it compare in ease of use, ease of setting up, feature set for free users, etc.?
- I've looked into Revolt and it isn't there quite yet. But the road map is extremely promising. I'll keep my eye on it and as soon as they finish up a couple more features I'm going to use it.
  
  It's been in the same state for like five years, there's no priority on the bits that would get it over the line
- Does Revolt have screen sharing yet?
  
  No
- Until it can do voice chat and screen share, it's going to be discord for most users.
- Revolt, Matrix & XMPP
- Seemed ok but is very much a toxic discord all the same
- I think he has Signal. (I know i have Signal) Only 1 message there, then switched back to Discord

If we're bragging, I installed gentoo back in 2005 from stage1 tarball.
- Jesus dude
- Oh yes, my moment! 2002, stage 1 off a DVD with no internet connection on a Pentium 2. Accidentally selected everything including open office, Firefox and done other stuff I don't remember then hit emerge world. One week of compiling later it was finally ready for the next input 😂
  
  I remember some ungodly split package nonsense with Openoffice back in the day, but the details elude me.
  It was still a pain on an Athlon64 X2
- same here - but I somehow had constant data corruption on my loop-aes 8x160GB raid5 reiserfs, which went away after switching distro

I use arch btw
- Oh, so NixOS with training wheels (actual documentation).
  
  We laugh to hide the tears
  (Error: infinite recursion detected)

I mean if I made something unnecessarily hard for myself, I wouldn't be bragging about it.
- It doesn't even look that good tbh
  
  You can argue that stock kde looks better.

I don't see an issue with OP bragging a little. It is difficult and time-consuming to install Gentoo for the first time. "😑" did a good job and should be proud of themselves for completing it!

Well technically you right about linux it's hard to customize everything if.... you pick the most barebone linux distro like Debian or Arch.
That's why i used the most ricer linux to customize the hell out of it, like garuda moca catpuccino. If you asked me if it's bloat ??? of course it is, because it packed so much stuff that i still understand how to used it untill now.
- It's also not that hard.
  Install barebones distro (I use nix but that's a bad example so lets take arch)
  Pacman -syu hyprland kitty
  Hyprland
  Edit like four lines in .config/hypr/hyprland.conf

Pretty sure any distro with i3, fastfetch, feh and i3-lock does this - I can see they installed an i3-dock alternative without changing the config file though...

Oddlama/gentoo-install is great for this.