u/railugollyx

Casual: I want a Linux community that celebrates non-superusers. I've been on Linux for half a decade and I'll never remember much of anything about command line or computer internals, and not for lack of trying. I'll happily copypaste code and so forth with unassuming help, I just don't want to encounter this pervasive attitude where people tell me "just" followed by some statement that only a career dev would find reasonable. Partly, this means GUI everything, but that's not all; it's a matter of ethos.

Opposed to age verification: I like to see the word 'never'. I like to see a firm developer statement recognizing that age verification is the first inch of a mile that is encroaching digital surveillance via our government IDs. If a developer team rolled over I'd still consider the distro if there's an easy patch, but I'm only aware of Debian's ageless script.

Daily-used apps are newish: I don't want everything to be several major versions behind. I've been having this problem with common things like Okular or KDE's Night Light where there's a really relevant feature such as pinch to zoom or a fully red screen filter, that I just can't have. Related to point #1, being told "just use backports" or "just compile from source" or so forth isn't viable for me; I need to click a button and get on with my life. Newish means within several months of an app version's release to me.

I never use flatpak: Small old pc, simply don't have the space. Related to point #1, being told "just buy a new computer" or "just buy more disk space" isn't viable for me.

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What do I use this computer for? Web browsing, medical research, pdf organizing and annotating, notes, messaging, busy tasks. Occasionally I use a DAW and a video editor and the workflow involves Windows components so I definitely need to have WINE easily usable -- I had some intractable problem on Debian about 'dotnet' and fonts -- and also to run the audio plugin package yabridge.

On my DE, I'm particular about my environment being minimalist and I have navigation quirks I want customize. I've found I like KDE for this whereas I for some reason hated GNOME; I don't know if that's a dealbreaker, just mentioning that whatever the desktop environment is it ought to feel slick and intentional for the distro. Related to point #1, being told "just install a different DE than what the distro came with" isn't viable for me.

I REALLY appreciate help!

BONUS: Linux Support Forums Go One Post Without Saying The R Slur CHALLENGE (IMPOSSIBLE?)

Please read all. I can burp, usually, by using a 'primer' of air I swallow then I flex my abs to squeeze out the real burp air from my stomach while the sphincter is still relaxed/primed. However, this seems to be the only way I can burp and sometimes it doesn't even work.

Sometimes I 'prime' but am unable to relax the sphincter so I just end up swallowing that primer air fully which makes me more bloated, often consecutively; this ends thankfully after a few minutes at most at which point it'll relax and it'll all come out including the accumulated primer volume.

However, I don't remember it always being like this. I have a progressive and inexplicable digestion syndrome (lifelong bloat; 6yrs ago collected a SIBO diagnosis but not sure it explains everything; hEDS btw) of which extreme bloating relieved by burping became the worst part. But when the burping first began 12 years ago it was mild and seemed to happen automatically; I never had to think about controlling it this consciously at least. Whatever's wrong, does this sound like R-CPD? Can it develop ostensibly over time? If not, what else is similar that I could look up? I've never done imaging except an abdominal x-ray by a nonspecialist who didn't notice anything.

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The most frequent way doctors would dismiss me in the beginning was by accusations of aerophagia, although they never bothered to verify that, and I came to this sub in the middle of a PubMed search/Reddit trawl for any nonpsychological swallowing disorders that might cause aerophagia (since I know stress/psych aren't related to my belching, hence if aerophagia were involved there would have to be some physical or nerve disorder causing it). I just share some suspicions signs with you all.