Rainjackets are easy, just any unbreathable plastic works well if it has the zippers well treated. I bought mine at the fan shop from the football club in the city I migrated to. And it’s been keeping me dry on the bike for the last couple of years. Just bought the regenpants and good to go ;)

Sea water is no commodity. If we talk about shortages, we are not referring to the humid salt that makes the oceans :p

Forgot to add /s on my post. Sorry!

I was only aiming for the lulz because cities outdoor particulate matter or PM 2.5 is terrible, and mostly generated by cars. But their sales/ companies lobby are stronger than those of nowadays tobacco brands…

You don’t need to announce every time you’re blocking someone, it’s a bit obnoxious to all the readers. I’m not going to moderate the insults at the moment but this thread is on the verge of being locked or whatever… and this is not meant to you. Everyone should try keeping it a little bit more civil. Chill, this is just a bit of news, no need to start a war between smokers and non smokers.

Why don’t we start by banning outdoor use of fossil fuels? :)

We can’t recommend Arch to beginners. The maintenance is too high.

But yes, the support on rolling distros is great.

In any case, I’m surprised all the issues OP gets are from support for a fan? Something is terribly wrong here. I’d rather switch to any other fan (they’re cheap!) and blame the manufacturer. Move along.

For windows9x UI there are retro themes (e.g. xfce4 as DE can be themed with https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 ). For a distro, try zorin os maybe? Is focused on giving a modern windows-like UI and feel. In any case, my recommendation goes to debian or mint.

Desktop environments are tightly coupled to distros. At work, I got ubuntu. Got root, installed kde plasma. It works, but only because ubuntu is huge and has a “meta package”, and if you’re experienced enough not to switch the login to sddm, is all good. But even so, this goes to show that even if you can build your own system by swapping parts, this doesn’t mean is simple. Most linux users simply take a distro and don’t wander too far from it…

Causation doesn’t produce correlation!

Oh! I should get back to it… Togrther with the winamp skins I had downloaded from internet archive.

Plus projectM from Steam, and Spotube… I could stop using the monthly subscription for (*1) an ugly UI that barely handles drag-and-drop and is a mess to make my playlists with.

(*1) tbh, the recommendation engine got me hooked at first, but my interest has been fading away.

Actually, drinkable water is one of the major difficulties during a a flood. So they’re not awfully wrong to carry those beers.