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  • I would try a few Plasma based tiling scripts before switching to anything like Sway or i3. You’ll get a good idea of whether it’s for you. Later on if you find you need more control over the tiling you could switch to a dedicated tiling window manager.

    I’m using Karousel in Plasma which is scrollable tiling. You can install and enable it like so:

    Go to System Settings > Apps & Windows > Window Management > KWin Scripts > select Get New… > In search enter Karousel and wait for it to show up > select Install > select the latest version (as of now karousel-0-9-4.tar.gz).

    There is a companion desktop effect that also needs to be installed like so:

    Go to System Settings > Apps & Windows > Window Management > Desktop Effects > select Get New… > enter Geometry Change in search > select Install > select the latest version (as of now kwin4-effect-geometry-change-1.3.tar.gz).

    Karousel and Geometry Change have configuration options and Karousel also has keyboard shortcuts (view here) which you may need to update to your liking. I don’t have a need to configure anything in Geometry Change as the default animation settings are fine. For Karousel I tend to adjust the various spacing and gaps options along with making sure the shortcuts I want are configured. That link above has a short video of what Karousel looks like in action.


  • You can get Gentoo up and running pretty quickly by following the handbook. From memory it’s easy to miss one or two clear instructions because the styling of the handbook can add more eye-catching weight to the explanation than the actual commands. So be sure to re-read areas where things don’t seem to working out.

    Gentoo also has a binary repo if you don’t plan to stray from whatever installation profile defaults you start off with.

    I can’t confirm a simple server install of Gentoo is somehow more lean than any other distribution.

    I’ve used gentoo-install with success previously although I don’t know how up to date it is.


















  • We’ve only watched the first couple of episodes and found it a bit too cartoony for our tastes.

    One question I have for anyone who has watched the whole season - the question is a spoiler for anyone who hasn’t seen the first episode.

    Tap for spoiler

    Do they ever address the fact that the main character is raped in the first episode? Because it didn’t come up in the second episode and we’re unsure of whether the show creators are even aware they had a rape scene in their show.