FordPrefect

Haven't looked at MX Linux before, thanks for the info!

Like I said, I really can't care much about window managers at this point. Mostly, I'm tired of having multiple window managers installed after just a few app installs. If I start out with Gnome\Plasma, I'll surely end up wanting some apps that have only been made for KDE, & vice versa. Never once have I seen a Linux machine that had all the apps I'd want, using just one window manager.

I suppose most apps could be compiled from source to run on one or the other, but alternative compiles have invariably been a hassle to me...

Since I end up needing at least two window managers installed anyway & they keep changing generations about 10x as often as I change machines, it's pointless for me to have a preference. The best window manager is whichever one each developer of each app happened to use?!?

Hahahah, very!

I have still yet to see any other media library handle so many tens of thousands of audio files of varying encoding & naming conventions, so smoothly; "Media Monkey" etc were oft recommended but never once up to the task. Until just a few years ago, it was remarkably convenient for ripping a CD, too; correct metadata & all.

For a short while, WMP was to music files, as Calibre is to ebooks.

Same.

Hodor?

I'm very lactose tolerant. I tolerate the gas, I tolerate the cramps, I tolerate the bloating...

Oooh, cheesecake!

"STOP"

Weird: I just noticed that I have seekbar preview on my desktop install of VLC, but not mobile. Now I want to compare to the Win version as well, because I'm noticing some menus look different than I remember.

Honestly, I install VLC just to snag the file-associations away from the WMP / Windows Video apps, because they remain insecure by default.

No. I'm open to suggestions.

If I had to install right now, it would be Debian, just out of familiarity.

Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Linux Mint, even Kali are fundamentally changed from when I last tried them.

Linux window managers change more often than I need to reinstall; I get really tired of picking a distro based largely on its choice of window manager, just to end up with Gnome installed anyway after a few packages fetch their dependencies.

The other nice thing about running vanilla Debian (or Ubuntu) is that at least some of the documentation for some apps, will be applicable!?

So real; I have just years of old '90s SciFi etched into my brain. SciFi novels, too, but it might be nice if some percentage were nonfiction? I dunno, honestly at this point I'm just glad when I see media with a plot that I don't immediately foresee the denouement of.

Weirdly, I watch less TV now than when I had more monthly bills to work off.

I was even doing pretty well about steering clear of social-marketing sites, until SMBC-comics added a comments section directly below the first of four stops on my (semi-)daily funny pages.

I feel like you replied to someone else's comment?
Gimp feels just like Photoshop before Creative Suite editions...
Everything that's not MS Paint, feels like a huge upgrade to me. On Windows, I open Paint.NET as often as any other image editor, just because I don't need more than that for most copy\paste\crop\color tasks.

I haven't done any illustration or background\logo art in about 20 years. I'm not even sure what features are considered most defining, for a good image editor these days?

That would be more steps than just setting the hotkeys in VLC... I haven't really had any reason to install MPC in... wow, over a decade? VLC opens everything & works with my remotes, casting, etc.