It seems like a category error to compare email to Discord or Slack. The latter two are distinct companies and not protocols.

This makes it sound like the results of divorce proceedings lmao

It’s super common.

I guess there’s always Haiku?

At 12 I was too scared of downloading most programs for fear of viruses, if I had been asked to partition a drive I would have cried.

It’s there, it’s just not necessary for launching an application. It’s the same as on Android.

I started dual booting Ubuntu and Windows when I was 19 or so and when I’d go back to my Windows partition to do something I realized I had either forgotten or never learned a lot of how to navigate it. I opened it and went “Where is my terminal?” and then remembered cmd and started using it to look for a directory before remembering that’s never how I’d done things on Windows. It was an odd experience.

A big reason I use Lemmy is because I like all the FOSS discussion lmao.

Got the Kidpix design philosophy

For me personally I install kitty terminal and integrate it with fish asap. Then I waste a bunch of time customizing it to my liking. My preferred text editor is Kate regardless of what DE I’m using and I usually get bleachbit for basic cleanup.