Watch the man in the tall hat spinning the baton, everyone.

Don’t ask where the money is coming from or what it should have bought by now…

Wobbly windows are fun! I also turned them off for stability. I should try them again sometime.

Adding additional DEs on Debian variants (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) has always just plugged them in to my login page as a drop-down to choose between.

So I consider it pretty low risk. The main cost is disk space.

If the DE freezes up, a hard power button reboot will stop at the login page and allow choosing a different one, as long as the “automatic login” setting is turned off (and as long as I know I password).

The issue where the window needs reloaded after some time does sound like software - specifically like a slow memory leak.

Plenty of us are using Cinnamon without that issue, but of course it could be you have some strange unlucky combination of hardware, patch version, etc.

I’m not sure b if the video thing is related. Pop-out videos come in many flavors, and most range from mildly anti-user to outright evil. So the video misbehaving could be down to the specific combination of site, site video digital rights management, how much spying they try to do while the video plays, how much of that spying Librewolf is set to block, and what day of the week it is (how fast your Internet connection is, that day, really).

Do you have any window manager extensions installed? (I know gnome has a whole extension ecosystem, but I’m but sure Cinnamon even supports Desktop extensions. If you don’t remember adding anything, ignore this, it’s a really long shot.)

You could try adding a second desktop environment (MATE is a popular enough 2nd choice) and see if the issues happen there, as well. You can switch desktop environments in a drop-down on the login page.

Have you launched the Drivers tool to see if it recommends anything?

One time I was having issues and I typed “drivers” into the Start menu, and it brought up a panel that recommended a driver update, which fixed some issues for me.

“Is that another Borg time sphere?”

“Captain, I believe the borg may be attempting to alter the past - to prevent themselves from ever encountering Dr. Cochran’s music.”

Recycling tragic accidents is just good policy, and necessary to preserve the ecosystem on visited planets.

If we happen to get a few cloned bridge officers out of the bargain…that’s just good fortune.

There’s not an ounce of Cyan in Riker’s body, but this thing still refuses to materialize without a new cartridge!

It’s also fun to pass a “nothing interesting” note privately to the rogue (especially if they’re playing some variety of an untrustworthy scoundrel).

The party jumping at shadows tend to make the rogue’s player grin smugly, which sometimes makes the party jump even harder at shadows.

Lawful Gaston Tank opens the chatlog of the raid plan…

"How can you read this? There’s no pictures!

I want Miles x Bashir to be cannon so bad.

Miles x Bashir is canon. It’s just the exact details that are left to the imagination.

Bashir sighs with relief that nobody’s caught on

He’s just fascinated with frontier medicine!

But he made up for all that by breaking the chronological prime directive, losing control of his ship to mutineers, and allowing his racism to nearly start a war with the Klingon empire.

So really, who are we to judge.

I could do the same analysis for Admiral Janeway, but I’m afraid she would shoot me, Tuvix me, or write me out of history.

i3wm is my favorite window manager, but I find I can get a good 90% out of either Gnome or KDE Plasma, with a bit of settings fiddling.

I think I added “Metacity” plugin to Gnome, to get proper tiling. It was okay.

In KDE Plasma, I just poke the settings to maximize windows by default, and enable keyboard shifting windows into half screen increments.

It’s an annoying compromise, but it’s nice not to have all the jank that comes with tuning my i3wm setup to add basic features that KDE Plasma ships with.

Edit: And I’ll be reading along, hoping someone else has a better answer than mine!

Even while aware of how little classic scifi or fsntasy covers usually have in common with the book contents… This is still surprisingly weird.

“Sometimes when it’s not him, it’s still him!”

RIP Renee A. I can always hear his delivery of that final line when I read it.

“A wizards staff has a knob at the end.”

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

You might try Wayfinder.

It feels like classic World of Warcraft without the grinding for levels or loot.

What’s up with the Rust hate?

The Rust community keeps trying to rewrite key pieces of Linux that aren’t broken.

They probably have the right idea, in the long run, but it’s still fun to give them a hard time about it.

This…might be canon now. There’s a few conversations in Strange New Worlds that feel like the Universal Translator reached its limit of making Vulcans not-rude.