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  • How long would you say it took you before getting a fundamental understanding?

    I would say years, as with any complex activity.

    I’m still forgetting things I learned 3 or even 4 times like how to do a for each loop.

    You can forget in 2 different ways:

    1. Forget how to use something, so you need to look how to do it.
    2. Forget that something exists, so you cannot even look for it because you are not aware it’s a possibility.

    You will forget-1 everything which you don’t use on a daily basis. That’s what internet is for. Forgetting in the 2-nd sense is much more rare and you should do something if that’s the case.

    all of it feels too advanced and I get lost on how to begin

    This is a bias most of us have, you overlook how easy is for you to do things that previously were impossible and focus on how hard are the things you still don’t know how to do. And computing is so complex right now that there always be “infinite” things you don’t know.

    Try showing what you know to someone who doesn’t know how to code and you will get an idea of how much you have learnt :).

    Anyway, I don’t really have good advice :/, just wanted to confirm that what you feel is expected. Good luck!








  • This is how I understand it: the 3 main alternatives for the author were:

    • Do nothing and comply with DC shenanigans.
    • Try to fight (legally) DC.
    • Make it public domain.

    None of them are ideal and, although (from what I understand… IANAL) you are right that with the 3rd one DC can do whathever they want, companies don’t like when anyone can make any kind (gore, porn, furry porn…) of fanart with their products. If Fables ends up being identified with not-safe-for-monetization stuff, it could be dangerous for them. Imagine the possible “won’t somebody please think of the children?” juicy headlines about it.

    But I think the main reason is that this makes it a problem only for DC instead of it being a problem for the author.

    EDIT: As pointed in other comments, they would also loose the exclusivity over the product and merchandising. They would need to compete with very cheap legal-knockoffs.



  • I’m an ultra-noob, so those who know more please correct me.

    I’m playing with Linux VMs and recently I installed Debian to check it out. When it asked what DE I wanted, I chose all of them :).

    The only hard conflict (AFAIK) is the [compontent / feature responsible for loging in] (I don’t know the technical term). Because each DE comes with a different one, you need to choose one.

    What I found very confusing in practice is that I could see some DE apps and configuration settings from other DEs. So, unless you know what belongs to what, it’s a bit of a mess (in my VERY limited experience).


  • Oooh… I see. I didn’t understand how broad the Desktop Env really are. Is not that they manage “a lot of things regarding the desktop and windows”… is just like a bundle of apps.

    Now it’s starting to sound like a sub-distro inside the distros, but I think this is a good point to stop bothering you. Thanks again!


  • So, just to check I understood:

    • “[Tiling] Window Managers” are a very specific tool.
    • “Desktop Environments” are broader tools that (may?) contain Window Managers.

    Now… the next questions (if you have the patience :P) are:

    • is is possible to use a Window Manager without a Desktop Environment?
    • how does this influence your choose for the terminal emulator? Ó_ò

    Thanks for the answers!