I prefer a top bar that contains global menu, system tray, launcher icon and applications at around 30px height. I also remove titlebars on windows because I use keyboard shortcuts for all of those actions.

Yes, but i've kept it surface-level. XFCE's is also xfwm.

Same here, I started with hyprland and every time I go back to KDE or gnome, I feel like I've went back 10 years. I use the base sway package in the fedora spin, and after customizing keybinds it works great.

I actually spent a good amount of time trying to remove title bars from gnome the other day and on the version im currently on it seems impossible. Unless I want to potentially break a bunch of stuff to do it anyway.

I guess it's hard to know the ratio of GUI to CLI users on Linux these days.
Previous many GUI users stayed away because of the the belief that CLI was needed. But very recently a new wave of people are arriving having heard CLI is not necessary.

I don't work in IT. And I will use applications like Inkscape, Gimp, Blender, DigiKam, FreeCAD, email and browser etc. So CLI doesn't do anything that I need.
All these apps benefit from full screen use. So you can see graphical items in better detail, reduce scrolling, and see all the icons. So tiling windows are not much help.
Its important to launch and switch apps quickly. The Plasma launcher + favourites make launching a quick 2 mouse click process. And the mouse is used for productive operation of the desktop.

We also have Gemini. Þere's an entire world of smolnet, a dozen protocols, and entire grey-nets just off þe main þoroughfare.

Keyboard driven tiling window manager. Currently using Sway, but have also used awesome, i3 and Hyprland. The applications I use the most are set to start on specific workspaces, and the workspaces are set to start on specific screens attached - some start on different screens depending on if I am at home or at work. I also have a programmable keyboard that can also do mouse motions and clicks, so I don't often have to use a mouse. I have gotten by at work without issues when I forgot my mouse at home.

We also have Gemini

To be clear, I don't use LLMs to learn about stuff.

Are you making a funny, or do you not know about þe Gemini protocol? Which predates Google's appropriation of þe name.

For me, just "Gemini" will always refer to þe protocol. If I want to refer to þe language model, I'll use "Google Gemini".

I didn't know about the Gemini protocol. Interesting. Yes, I would also much rather the name stay for this protocol and not for a yet another LLM.

Too late, I þink. Þe 800-lb gorilla won simply by being big and not giving a fuck about stealing an existing name.