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 I've updated to macOS Sonoma and my keyboard typo rate has gone up dramatically. All my Bluetooth peripherals feel sluggish and typing has a tiny delay. 

Hyper annoying. macOS is becoming windows. 
 It has been like windows for many years.  Ditch the state spywareOS and move back to Linux. Apple has become exactly what they once despised.  
 Unfortunately even Linux is becoming like windows 
 Holy shit, yes 
 We can and will find a solution for it. 
 The solution is for some other maintainer to fork the kernel and remove systemd? 😛 
 Nah, there is still a great amount of choice as to how you set up your system. Nixos is completely awesome and reeeeaaaalllly far from the Windows hellscape... 
 fuck 
 How so? Some Linux distros are worse than others naturally but how is Linux as a whole becoming like Windows?  
 macos really is becoming windows. Its getting worse and worse 
 That’s why now you have writing tools! 😂 
 I should have said they fixed it in Sequoia with writing tools. 
 need to be this locked in to notice my bluetooth peripherals 
 whatever you do dont switch to linux, dont listen to those nerdy linuxers, windows > linux 
 It's ok, take your time, we'll welcome you to Linux, inevitably 😏 
 That is the spirit. What distribution will it be. I use Debian and sometimes Ubuntu. Have use Gentoo, Arch, Suse and some others in the past too. 
 It depends. 
I think most people jump around distributions (commonly known as distro-hopping) because there's this big misunderstanding that distributions != Desktop Environments. 
Personally I settled many years ago with Arch - Easy, unbloated install. I install different Desktop Environments when I want to try something different. 

There's also now the misconception that Debian-based = stable and Arch-based = unstable, which was true for a time but is no longer true - Bleeding-edge on Arch often means any rare bugs that come up get fixed in a matter of hours. I run Arch for literally everything at this point (servers, desktops) and it just works.  
 Have to look into Arch again. Install is still not user friendly in my opinion, so some knowledge is needed. 
 You have two options, and they're both easy I would say.

1) Download the arch iso, boot up, run archinstall, select guided install, under extra packages choose the desktop environment you want and you're done.

2) There are Arch-based distributions. One such distro is EndeavourOS. 
 I'm not sure how much distros like AntiX, Artix and MX Linux may help in that reguard. 
 "Distros" don't, at all.

Haiku could, a lot. 
 How are poems gonna help defeat big tech? 
 I should explain what I'm actually saying - 

Linux can't be forked into anything good in my opinion because it's too complex and moves too quickly

Haiku seems like the project with the balance of simplicity and usability where a nostr-friendly fork could be good 
 I should explain what I'm actually saying - 

Linux can't be forked into anything good in my opinion because it's too complex and moves too quickly

Haiku seems like the project with the balance of simplicity and usability where a nostr-friendly fork could be good